On the one hand… …divination with Yi is not particularly about getting what you want. As a wise person pointed out recently in Reading Circle, it’s not life-as-catalogue: ‘I want that person/ this experience/ that possession, so how do I get it?’ We need to be at least somewhat aware… Read more »Wanting
Well… Bradford came over to the UK from the States to see Cesca, and while he was here we got together and went over to Holland to see LiSe (and connect up with Harmen, too). And this was brilliant in many, many ways. I want to share the reading I… Read more »In the pot
Much as I’d love my first post of the new year to be some brilliantly insightful Yi-related thing, I don’t seem to have any of those ready for you. However, Pamela Moss does have good things lined up already, so here is a post about those instead. More Yi-specific stuff… Read more »Vision Gardening
======================== Update! There’s now software available here at Clarity to keep a complete journal – not only of Yijing readings, but also of dreams, synchronicities and more. Created by Justin Farrell, it’s the successor to his I Ching Journal reviewed below. It’s called the Resonance Journal. ======================== Why would you… Read more »I Ching journal software
…or ‘Where did Hilary go?’ Well… I sit myself down in front of a task and my brain goes on strike. It’s got quite radical about it: ‘Sit and stare at the screen all you like,’ it says, ‘but if you think anything useful is getting done here, you’ve got… Read more »Camped on the left
‘Gradual advance. The woman marries. Good fortune. Constancy bears fruit.’ Hexagrams 53 and 54, Gradual Advance and the Marrying Maiden, are what Stephen Karcher calls ‘The Great Marriages’. So what does ‘marriage’ mean? To a large extent, that depends on your perspective: in old China, marriage for the man means… Read more »Hexagram 53 musings
I enjoy the basement of Oxford’s remaindered/discount book shop – all kinds of entertaining things end up there. My latest trip yielded The Psychic Tourist by William Little, a journalistic book in which he investigates one claim after another (psychics, mediumship, remote viewing…), typically finding good stories that turn out to… Read more »Deeper waters
