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Earth revealing heaven

It was some time after I thought I’d ‘completed’ my hexagram commentary to contribute to Change Circle‘s WikiWing when I realised there was a line I’d completely forgotten. Hexagram 2, ‘using sixes’: the text that’s read when every line is moving, and Hexagram 2 changes towards Hexagram 1. ‘Harvest from… Read more »Earth revealing heaven

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.

Watching the tennis with Yi

… is so much more interesting than just watching the tennis. Today was the men’s final at the Wimbledon championships. Roger Federer had won for the past four years on the trot and was huge favourite to make it five in a row. And so he did, beating Rafael Nadal… Read more »Watching the tennis with Yi

More Hexagram 2

Yi has been giving me hexagram 2 as relating hexagram for three weeks in succession now – ever since I asked what Mum’s ‘power’ was, and received 2 with no changing lines. (Prior to that, I’d asked why she kept showing up in my dreams with work for me to… Read more »More Hexagram 2

Earth as relating hexagram

If you consult the Yijing with yarrow stalks, or with another method (like beads) that has the same odds, then you’ll find that 2, the Receptive, often turns up as relating hexagram. This is because with yarrow odds, yang lines in the primary hexagram are more likely to change than… Read more »Earth as relating hexagram