I was writing on Saturday about a reading kindly shared by Eric Bryant of I Ching Insights (‘petrosianii‘ here at Clarity). He asked about the effect of purchasing some nicotine-free cigarettes as an aid to giving up smoking; he received first Hexagram 25 moving to 41, and then Hexagram 37… Read more »More steps when stuck
Over at his ‘I Ching Insights‘ blog, Eric Bryant’s doing sterling work writing up the whole process of a reading: formulating the question, and interpreting the answer. And in the process, he’s run into an experience that’s pretty familiar to anyone who’s ever talked with the oracle: he’s got stuck… Read more »Steps when stuck
Hexagram 25, line 3:
‘The calamity of Without Entanglement.
Someone tethered a cow.
Nomads’ gain,
City people’s calamity.’
Hexagram 25, Not Entangled, changing in the first two lines to give Hexagram 6, Arguing
Just another little personal reading story. Back on 2nd Feb, I ordered the latest Glyphius software from James Brausch. I wasn’t sure whether or not to go ahead and buy, but when I asked Yi about the effect of using it I received Hexagram 2, line 2. ‘Straight, square, great.… Read more »How not to make an ass of yourself (by Yi)
The I Ching Community has been a bit quiet of late, since I had to turn off email notification to stop it frying the server (see this page). But here is some good advice from Yi about a difficult, ‘entangling’ experience:I Ching Community Discussion Forum: A difficult situation
Hexagram 24, Returning, is made up of the trigrams for thunder within the earth: Hexagram 25, Without Entanglement, has thunder below earth’s complement, heaven: Thunder is the vital spark, often human will and initiative. In a time of Returning, the wise old kings would ‘close the gates. Itinerant merchants did… Read more »Trigrams in the sequence from 24 to 25
