I’m chortling in a wry sort of way over my reading for this week. I’ve spent the past umpteen weeks labouring faithfully over Change Circle. Planning, choosing technology and dreaming about what wonderful things it makes possible, fighting said technology, winning battles but losing the war. Starting over with different… Read more »Coming slowly, slowly
You could say that the first objective of divination is to be more aware – have more insight, connect intuitively with the way, be more completely present. That would be true for any reading, even if it’s not the first goal that comes to mind. It’s especially, true, though, of… Read more »Divination for awareness
There are two lines in Hexagram 20 that differ by just one word: Line 5 – ‘Seeing my own life. The noble one is without mistake.’ Line 6 – ‘Seeing their lives. The noble one is without mistake.’ Seeing ‘my own’ life, or seeing ‘his, her or their’ life. How… Read more »Hexagram 20, Seeing Life
Since I’m up to my neck in the technical stuff for Change Circle – irritating but necessary, as the last thing I want is technology getting in the way for people – I need to bow to the inevitable for a week, fill my head with templates and cascading style… Read more »No readings for a week, sorry
Each Sunday, I cast a reading for the week ahead – sometimes just asking for something to be aware of, sometimes asking for advice. This week I asked for advice, and received Hexagram 4, Not Knowing, with no changing lines. This was pretty baffling. Lately I’ve been working very intensely… Read more »Layers in a weekly reading
You’ll want to subscribe to the Quoteable I Ching blog, if you haven’t already. Despite the title, it doesn’t just contain quotations from the I Ching, but lovely lucid thoughts on how other things – poems, images, quotations – reflect the hexagrams. Or how the hexagrams reflect in other things.… Read more »The Quoteable I Ching
So that Change Circle’s ‘WikiWing’ doesn’t start life as 64 empty pages, I’m writing my own contribution for each hexagram before we open – an edited and distilled version of my own working notes. That way there’ll be something there to refer to for every hexagram and line right from… Read more »Hexagram 47 – WikiWing contribution
