At the heart of every hexagram is its ‘nuclear hexagram’. It’s made up of its inner lines: 234 for its lower trigram, 345 for the upper. So for instance if your original hexagram is 18, Corruption – – then by taking its lines 234,345 you uncover the nuclear hexagram 54,… Read more »Nuclear hexagrams – why bother?
Weekly readings are a blessing and a joy. I’m finding that the richest rewards come from asking an open-ended question every weekend, and keeping this separate from my readings about whatever pressing issues have come up. Stephen Karcher wrote that the basic question we ask oracles – the question behind… Read more »Weekly I Ching readings
Spoiled by the mother An interesting account from Allan Lian of an investment reading. He was considering investing more in a company when he asked Yi about this, and received 18, line 2: ‘Ancestral mother’s corruption Does not allow persistence.’ (Or words to that effect: Allan uses the W/B version.)… Read more »Allan Lian on hexagram 18
