My posts here have been a tad sparse of late, and are about to get sparser. How come? Well, in theory the deadline to complete that new site design, with all its assorted rewritten content and behind-the-scenes programming, is 25th May. In practice… (*pause for strange gibbering noises from the… Read more »Where did I go?
When did you last encounter a Yijing translation where the introduction engendered such curiosity that you were itching to read it through? Quite. I’m sure this isn’t supposed to happen, but with the Chameleon Book, Freeman Crouch’s translation, I find it does. He reads the Yijing as a historical document,… Read more »The Chameleon Book
Treading the tiger’s tail
Every hexagram can be said to have a ‘nuclear hexagram’, formed by taking its inner lines and ‘unfolding’ them. From the original hexagram’s lines 123,456, you build a new hexagram with 234,345. The effect is like a seed germinating, and the nuclear hexagram’s often interpreted as a latent potential within… Read more »The family of Hexagram 37
Here is a proposed new design for onlineClarity (blog and forum included). *update!* Here is an alternative version of the design for comparison. We’re still at the stage of deciding on the look and feel. Colours, layout, graphics, spacing… all that. (Working links and text will come later.) You’d be… Read more »I need your aesthetic sense!
Jane Schorre and Carrin Dunne, authors of the excellent Yijing Wondering and Wandering, have launched a new site where they’re starting to put the book online. Thus far there’s only the preface and a few pages of introduction, but they plan to scan in the whole work. Visit their site,… Read more »Yijing Wondering and Wandering online
After a week of ‘Nearing Earth’ (19.1.2 to 2, my personal reading for the week), I’m very happy to find this Samhain full moon reading from Peter at Fireraven tarot
