Yi’s been reminding me of hexagram 2 lately. It’s my ‘hexagram for the year’, unchanging, so I have the opportunity to see it from the inside – after seeing it through my mother’s example a few years ago. One of the biggest changes in my life this year is going to… Read more »Mare in motion
(Eep… this is the longest gap between blog posts in ages. Where have I been? I’m not completely sure… but it’s involved getting started writing a book (more about this in Change Circle shortly), getting to know the excellent people who are participating in this year’s Yijing Class, and starting… Read more »No mistake
(Sometimes I’m working through my notes and some small thing comes into focus. Here’s one of them.) Hexagram 28 is ‘Great Overstepping’: the time of ‘overstepping the mark’ or ‘stepping over the line’, when the weight of things goes beyond what the structure can support, and the ridgepole begins to… Read more »White thatchgrass
I wrote before about how Yi can be a vehicle for instantaneous change, through an image that immediately transforms your experience. Immediate change… The effect of a ‘vehicle for change’ tends to be an immediate change of perception and experience. One moment your inner space is just hollowed out and… Read more »Book of (long term) Change
I just finished the handout for today’s free call on the I Ching as ‘Book of Transformations’: you’re welcome to download this in pdf format (to print out and write on) or as an editable rtf file. Do get yourself a copy even if you can’t make it to the… Read more »Download the notes for the free call today
I’m running a free call this Sunday (10th) about the I Ching as ‘book of transformations’. This is all part of the preparations for this year’s I Ching Class: I’m trying to use the free calls to give a flavour of what it’s about, as well as some practical suggestions… Read more »Book of (real) Change
Sometimes, after you’ve looked at an I Ching reading for a while, the natural next step is to ask another question to help you understand aspects of that first reading. And sometimes the further answers you’re looking for are already present in your original reading, if you just have the… Read more »Going deeper
