Each hexagram of the Yijing contains a nuclear hexagram at its core. And since the nuclear hexagram unfolds from lines 2-5, it’s the first and last lines, the ‘entrance and exit’ or ‘roots and shoots’ of the hexagram, that vary – so that four hexagrams can be formed around each… Read more »The family of 54
I love reading new commentaries on hexagrams – even when the author is unaware even of the existence of the hexagram his work illuminates. This time the hexagram is 46: Pushing Upward, a figure of aspiration and steady, step-by-step progress towards a goal. The article is by Norman Barlow, and… Read more »Making use of seeing the great person
About a month ago, I turned to Yi in complete frustration. I’d been listening to podcasts from Steve and Erin Pavlina, both talking about how enthusiastically they leapt out of bed in the early morning, eager to get to their work, because they knew their purpose in life. And I… Read more »Yi makes a difference
Another question from Nancy: “What have you discovered about the validity of the I Ching’s ‘future’ hexagram anwers? I have read that it gives you a potential answers to the future and is not meant to predict the future. In most cases, I have not found the ‘future’ hexagrams to… Read more »Future hexagrams
The week before last, I was itching to get started on something, and Yi told me to ‘strip away’ and to have no direction to go. And I realised that I could go anywhere. Then last week, with far more ideas and possibilities in mind than I’d dreamt possible, Yi… Read more »Pushing Upward, but where to?
The ‘sheng’ sacrifice at Qi Shan Harmen’s back! And as always, his research provides information you really have to consider in readings. This time he’s exploring sheng, Hexagram 46. The core divinatory meaning of sheng is (I think) to put in the effort to climb step by step towards a… Read more »New information on Hexagram 46
