Here it is: T-shirt I Ching. Choose your hexagram, moving line and quotation, and wear it. I can see the attraction. The examples they offer include 24, 42 and 46, all very quotable. It’s easy to think of other lines that have that ‘wearable’ quality: how about 18.6, for a… Read more »The I Ching for T-shirts
That’s not a specially-contrived poetic title: I really did dream Yijing last night. I think the idea was a hexagram-by-hexagram Yijing of love. It’s natural (I dreamt) to experience love as having depths, to feel it as something inward. Hexagram 1’s expression of love is about heights – heaven above… Read more »Dreaming Hexagram 1
One of the meanings of the “I” in “I Ching” is “easy” or “simple”. Given the smallest opening, it will speak to your heart, reconnect you with the deeper patterns and meanings of your life, and let you move with the flow instead of swimming doggedly upstream. But it doesn’t… Read more »10 ways to make your I Ching experience difficult and frustrating
There are times – plenty of them – when not being able to think of a question for the I Ching seems an impossible luxury, and the difficult thing is to stop asking. There’s a constant whirling of questions in your mind: ‘What if I tried…?’ ‘How can I…?’ ‘What… Read more »What to do when you can’t think what to ask
I was just looking through the latest from the Readings Panel at GreatVessel.com . The questioner asked how to deal with a difficult manager, and received Hexagram 10, Treading, moving to Hexagram 61, Inner Truth, through a changing line at the fourth place: ‘Treading the tiger’s tail. Careful pleading, Good… Read more »Meeting tigers
There have been several new pages added to the online version of Yijing Wondering and Wandering. Here are stories, images and ideas for (so far) hexagrams 1 to 14. If one of these happens to be your weekly or daily hexagram, here’s good food for meditation.
I store my I Ching readings on my computer; I have done for many years. It makes them easier to review, both because my handwriting’s in the ‘inebriated spider meanderings’ class, and because of the wonders of search. “Didn’t I receive this hexagram before when I was trying to work… Read more »Software for an I Ching journal
