This just in: the Princeton Multimedia I Ching CD-ROM is for sale on Ebay. As well as a choice of yarrow or coin computerised readings, it also includes a ‘library’ with the full Wilhelm/Baynes text and Helmut Wilhelm’s Eight Lectures on the I Ching. It’s thoroughly ‘vintage’ software (1996)… hm,… Read more »Princeton Multimedia I Ching on Ebay
The other day, after a series of readings circulating between hexagrams 58, 47, 48, 57, I noticed another little nugget of patterns within the Sequence of hexagrams. Hexagram 37 describes life inside the home, defined by its boundaries (37.1). Hexagram 38 is outside the walls: opposed, seeing differently, alien. Hexagram… Read more »Inside and outside
I had a lovely day out yesterday, visiting a friend. She left me at the station for the return journey – and I found the train was delayed, so I’d have an extra hour or so of travel. Happily even this very modest-sized station had its own modest-sized shop, with… Read more »Coincidence
There’s a brand new Spanish-speaking I Ching forum available. Like any brand new forum, ‘no hay mensajes’ for the most part so far, but it’ll pick up momentum soon. And Olivia Cattedra has just brought out a new book, Oraculo Y Sabuduria Guia Para El Estudio del I Ching. For… Read more »I Ching news for Spanish speakers
I’ve written about Lorena Moore’s site before – her blog is a refuge for anyone interested in the stuff our world’s made of. Now she’s completed her lichen oracle, and you can browse or consult with it online. I’ve a feeling that oracles, made last month or a few millennia… Read more »Lichen Oracle
In The Geography of Thought – a fascinating book about the differences between modern Eastern and Western ways of thought – I learned that, “The combative, rhetorical form is … absent from Asian law. In Asia the law does not consist, as it does in the West for the most… Read more »Hexagram 6 and the Geography of Thought
Plenty of online I Ching readings simulate the yarrow stalk probabilities, including those at this site. But here’s a nice, quick-loading I Ching reading that simulates the process itself of dividing the stalks. Perhaps it’ll encourage people to pick up the real thing.
