Hexagram 30 follows from Hexagram 29; Clarity emerges from the Repeating Chasms. They form one of those landmark pairs in the Yijing: an opposite, ‘dragon gate’ pair, with every line changing to transform from one hexagram to the next. They’re very obvious ‘opposites’, these two. Chasms and Clarity; darkness and… Read more »Clarity from Chasms
This topic’s been discussed more than once at the I Ching Community, where I Ching beginners very often show up asking questions like, ‘What does he feel about me?’ Goodness knows this is an absolutely normal, human thing to want to ask – but anyone who’s watched a few of… Read more »Asking how he feels
Here’s the latest Living Change for you to download, with a reading on how to nurture creativity. Please comment! (I’m especially interested in thoughts on practical ways to respond to the reading.) Change Circle members will find the promised interview in the members area. I’m aware that this business of… Read more »Living Change I Ching podcast 3
Hexagram 30 is Clarity – the moment of insight and the capacity for it – and one of its key attributes is ‘holding together’. This has to do with the capacity of mind and heart to hold to truth, and also with the way in which living things hold to… Read more »Clarity and compassion
A couple of my most startling, transformative readings lately have come when I asked questions I could and should have asked a year or more ago. The issues were on my mind – in some cases driving all I did – yet it never dawned on me to talk with… Read more »Unasked questions
A round-up of readings from the run-up to the election, with thanks to Google. The earliest pertinent reading I found was from 24th May: “What will an Obama presidency bring to the nation?” Now, there’s some ambiguity around this reading: for one thing, by July the original poster was saying… Read more »I Ching on Obama
I love the way the I Ching finds its way into the heart of the modern world. I’m just deeply tickled to see our beloved 3,000-year-old oracle appearing as the I Ching for iPhone, or the Oracle watch. Whoever thought of calling this the ‘Book of Changes’ was really onto… Read more »The technological I Ching
