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The Jewel of Yi

I asked, “What is it about Yi that makes it precious as a spiritual ‘tool’?” And received Hexagram 15, Integrity, with no changing lines: This is one of those answers that gives me an immediate glow of recognition – and then unwraps like a gift, with more and more shining… Read more »The Jewel of Yi

Please take the survey!

I’ve just uploaded a new survey to the members’ area on personal and spiritual growth fundamentals. Please visit and send me your answers – thank you! It has just three questions, so it shouldn’t take you long at all. When you look at the survey, you may wonder why I’m… Read more »Please take the survey!

How divination is like dessert

I just found this delicious quotation from Ram Dass: “I experience each moment like baklava: rich in this layer, and this layer, and this layer.” mmm… Except that for most people, most of the time, the baklava is covered in plastic wrap, and we’re left wondering why it doesn’t taste… Read more »How divination is like dessert

Nuclear hexagrams as archetypes?

I came across this at Eric Bryant’s I Ching blog: Atomic I Ching hexagrams and atomic Jungian archetypes. By ‘atomic’ hexagrams he means the four ‘seed within the seed’ nuclear hexagrams that all the hexagrams ultimately ‘resolve to’: 1, 2, 63 and 64. These he attempts to map onto archetypal… Read more »Nuclear hexagrams as archetypes?

Intuition

intuition is an immediate perception. Analysis brings you to a conclusion step by step; intuition happens straight away. I Ching interpretation involves a mixture of intuition and analysis (which in turn creates more food for the intuition), but it all hangs on a single moment of intuition, when you perceive the connection between question and answer.