Some 50 truly brilliant people have taken the trouble to fill out the Change Circle Features Survey. Thank you. 🙂 I know this one is a bit on the long side, and I really appreciate your time and thoughtfulness. I always prefer taking those surveys where I can satisfy my… Read more »Change Circle update
A search for I Ching things brought me to this blog post. Profound questions, beautiful readings; I can’t describe the blog as a whole.
I’ve been thinking and divining about confidence in readings, and acting on readings, and being coached along the way by Yi into asking more lucid questions. Having the confidence to act on a reading, by itself, was no guide to anything. Reaching the right moment to act on a reading… Read more »One more question about readings and action
When I asked about getting the confidence to act on one’s understanding of a reading, Yi pointed out to me in its own inimitable way that this wasn’t a very valuable question to ask. One can get into trouble by having confidence as easily as by lacking it. So why… Read more »More about acting on I Ching readings
When I asked people their biggest challenge in working with the I Ching, so many said, in one form of words or another, that it had to do with confidence. Forming a question, casting a hexagram, even coming up with intelligent interpretations of the answer – these things might take… Read more »Asking the wrong question about confidence
I stumbled over this article by Brian Clark, ‘Something about the I Ching‘. I think it’s unusually good – not just your usual introductory rewritten Wikipedia, but a blend of personal experience, fresh ways to think about patterns of questioning (‘arc’ or ‘arrow’?) and use, and contentious opinions about translations… Read more »About the I Ching
I first read this story in Women Who Run with the Wolves, and it was one of those ‘scribbling hexagrams in the margins’ moments for me. You can read a longer version of the tale here, but this is the core of it: Vassilissa was a beautiful young girl who… Read more »Fire inside and outside
