Hexagram 20, line 5, has a cryptic brevity – ‘Seeing my own life. The noble one is without mistake.’ – and even more so when you consider that the sixth line differs from it by just one word: ‘Seeing their lives. The noble one is without mistake.’ As you move… Read more »Seeing my own life
I’ve become aware recently of an emotional pattern that makes people reluctant to try a reading with the I Ching. These are open-minded people, interested in spiritual growth and self-knowledge. So they don’t dismiss the idea of divination unthinkingly, as something that obviously couldn’t work. Nor do they avoid it… Read more »Fear of divination?
Jessica Morrell is the author of several books on writing, and here she’s branched out to create an I Ching for writers, specifically applying its imagery to their concerns. The book’s first few short chapters are introductory material. In a nutshell, this contains much insight into divination, interspersed with the… Read more »Book review: Jessica Morrell, Writer’s I Ching
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
