A note to explain my long silence here: my Mum died a couple of weeks ago, after a long and increasingly debilitating illness. I asked Yi, before we came over to visit her in hospital this time, what I could do for her, and it answered with 23, unchanging. So… Read more »Stripped away
This entry is a follow-up to my post on ‘Life lessons from Yi‘ a few weeks ago. Like that one, it’s more personal-journal-ish than I usually write, but I hope it’ll provide a couple of ideas you can use yourself. (Please let me know what you think of this style… Read more »Weekly I Ching reading
The Useless Tree: Friday I Ching Blogging: Reversal of Verdict on June 4th Massacre? Not only is Sam Crane talking with Yi about Chinese politics, but Allan Lian and Steve Marshall are joining in the discussion. Looking at both the reading and the Washington Post article linked to from there,… Read more »The Useless Tree: Friday I Ching Blogging: Reversal of Verdict on June 4th Massacre?
From Nelson:
“Under #24 it says, favorable to have somewhere to go. What does this mean?”
Wow!
The webinar with Stephen Karcher finished a few hours ago, and I’m altogether overwhelmed by the sheer intensity and information-density of it all. There will be a recording available, presently – free for ticket holders and on sale to everyone else. Watch, as always, this space.
For now I want to write about something altogether more trivial, while the big stuff sinks in.
Before the webinar, I did much computer-related divination, to thrash out technical problems as best I could. So let me share one or two of those readings…
I Ching Community Discussion Forum: Spiritual hierarchy Last November, Val asked Yi if there was such a thing as spiritual hierarchy. The answer was Hexagram 23 changing to 24. This reading surely emphasises that there are differences, like those between the junzi and the ‘small people’ of the top line,… Read more »ICC: Hexagrams 23 and 24, and spiritual hierarchy
