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Tips:

• Single-digit hexagrams: use a leading zero, for instance 07.4 (this minimizes false positives)
• Exact readings: use dot notation 08.1.3.5
• Unchanging readings are abbreviated with "uc": 51uc (Use a right parenthesis uc) to find all unchanging readings while minimizing false positives.)
• Primary hexagrams: use a parenthesis in front (49 or a dot behind 49.
• Relating hexagrams: to 05

If you find a mistake, please send me a private message.

Episode 1 (29uc)	Episode 2 (51uc)	Episode 3 (27uc)	Episode 4 (59.1.2 to 42, 59.1, 59.2)
Episode 5 (42.1.6 to 08, 42.1, 42.6)	Episode 6 (reboot trailer)	Episode 7 (Beginners' course, part 1)	Episode 8 (Beginners' course, part 2)
Episode 9 (42uc) (08.1.2 to 60, 08.1, 08.2)	Episode 10 (33.3.4 to 20, 33.3, 33.4)	Episode 11 (45.4.5.6 to 23, 45.4, 45.5, 45.6)	Episode 12 (08.1.3.5 to 36, 08.1, 08.3, 08.5)
Episode 13 (42.5.6, 42.5, 42.6 to 24)	Episode 14 (29uc)	Episode 15 (57.2.5 to 52, 57.2, 57.5)	Episode 16 (07.4 to 40)
Episode 17 (32.3 to 40) (61.4.6 to 58, 61.4, 61.6)	Episode 18 (22.2 to 26) (20.1.5 to 27, 20.1, 20.5)	Episode 19 (32.1.3.4.6 to 41, 32.1, 32.3, 32.4, 32.6)	Episode 20 (53.5 to 52)
Episode 21 (37.5 to 22)	Episode 22 (18.3 to 4) (49.2.3.5 to 54, 49.2, 49.3, 49.5) (06.5.6 to 40, 06.5, 06.6) (45.2 to 47)	Episode 23 (08uc)	Episode 24 (26.1.6 to 46, 26.1, 26.6)
Episode 25 (59.2.4.5 to 35, 59.2, 59.4, 59.5)	Episode 26 (16.2 to 40)	Episode 27 (30uc)	Episode 28 (61.1.4.6 to 47, 61.1, 61.4, 61.6)
Episode 29 (41.2.5 to 42, 41.2, 41.5)	Episode 30 (38.2.4 to 27, 38.2, 38.4)	Episode 31 (61.3.6 to 05, 61.3, 61.6)	Episode 32 (47.2.4 to 08, 47.2, 47.4)
Episode 33 (16.2 to 40, 22.1.2.3 to 4, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3)	Episode 34 (14.1.2.4.5 to 53, 14.1, 14.2, 14.4, 14.5)	Episode 35 (23.1.5 to 42, 23.1, 23.5)	Episode 36 (27.2.4.6 to 54, 27.2, 27.4, 27.6)
Episode 37 (48.3 to 29)	Episode 38 (57.2.3 to 20, 57.2, 57.3)	Episode 39 (29.2.3.6 to 53, 29.2, 29.3, 29.6)	Episode 40 (13.5 to 30)
Episode 41 (02.4.6 to 35, 02.4, 02.6)	Episode 42 (34.4 to 11)	Episode 43 (41.3 to 26)	Episode 44 (46.3.5 to 29)
Episode 45 (05.2.3 to 3, 05.2, 05.3)	Episode 46 (07.2 to 2)	Episode 47 (36uc)	Episode 48 (22.1 to 52)
Episode 49 (18.2.3.4.6 to 16, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4, 18.6)	Episode 50 (22uc)	Episode 51 (23.1.4.5.6 to 17, 23.1, 23.4, 23.5, 23.6)	Episode 52 (64.2.6 to 16, 64.2, 64.6)
Episode 53 (26.1 to 18)	Episode 54 (03uc)	Episode 55 (59uc)	Episode 56 (27.1 to 23)
Episode 57 (05.4.5 to 34, 05.4, 05.5)	Episode 58 (07.2 to 2)	Episode 59 (18uc)	Episode 60 (23.1.6 to 24, 23.1, 23.6)
Episode 61 (14.1.3 to 64, 14.1, 14.3)	Episode 62 (24.6 to 27)	Episode 63 (27.2.3 to 26, 27.2, 27.3)	Episode 64 (39.1.4.5.6 to 30, 39.1, 39.4, 39.5, 39.6)
Episode 65 (35uc)	Episode 66 (23.1.2.3.4.6 to 34, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3, 23.4, 23.6)	Episode 67 (27.1 to 23)	Episode 68 (52.4 to 56)
Episode 69 (13.1.2.6 to 28, 13.1, 13.2, 13.6)	Episode 70 (16.3.5 to 31, 16.3, 16.5)

 

A reminder that readings, and the synchronicities that surround them, can simply be fun. Here’s a reading, about making both an income and a difference, that certainly is: Hexagram 58, Opening, changing at line 2 to 17, Following:

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‘Lakes joined together. Opening.
A noble one joins with friends to speak and practise together.’

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Here it is... I Ching podcast, episode 1. In future I'd like to add more sections to this - some interviews, feedback, shared experiences, maybe even some music like a real, grown-up podcast. Some of the more in-depth stuff will be for Change Circle members only, but there'll always be a free part, too. At the moment, after all the planning, divining, thinking and recording and editing and geekery, it seems quite odd that the result is less than 15 minutes long. Still - it makes sense to start small and grow rather than starting huge and dwindling away, doesn't it? Also, Yi was helpful enough to give me an unchanging hexagram for my first 'living change' reading:
Question: Yi, what do we need to know about holding a living connection to source and meaning?
Answer... ...well, what single hexagram would you imagine might answer that one?
Hexagram 29, the Repeating Chasms, unchanging.
It wasn't in the least what I expected, but the more time I spend with the reading the more it moves me. (You know how that works.) Have a listen; let me know what you think. Thoughts about the reading, suggestions for future questions and content... all welcome.

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The first thing you’re going to notice about this episode is the change of music. The new recording is Kimiko Ishizaka’s performance of the 9th of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, from her wonderful Open Goldberg Variations project. I hope you enjoy it!

Three readings of mine get a mention in this podcast:

Guidance for the week at Grittleton: Hexagram 51, Shock, changing at lines 1 and 4 to 2, Earth.

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How to cope with the bog of 51.4? 4 unchanging – Not Knowing


And advice for the next phase – Hexagram 1, Creative Force, changing at 1, 3, 4 and 5 to 4 again:

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I’ll explain them all in the episode!

Links I mentioned…

• Mountain above, about the name and trigram picture of Hexagram 4.
• Mark Silver on ignorance as a divine fence
• Grittleton! and also Young Grittleton, where players aged between 11 and 18 achieve extraordinary things.

And not least,

• this is where you can book your own podcast reading

(The photo for this post is of my ‘cello with a few of his friends and relations in the corridor at Grittleton.)

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In this episode, Maggie and I dive into her reading about a possible new job: Hexagram 16, Enthusiasm, changing at lines 3 and 5 to 31, Influence.

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It’s not only about being ‘open to the new’, I think – also about being prepared and actively engaged with the process. Installing the feudal lords, embracing the marriage, writing the music to sing…

In the introduction I mention a similarity with episode 68, and at the end I talk about the Change Patterns course you can access inside Change Circle. (If you’re already a member, you’ll find it in the ‘Enrich your understanding section’ in the new Learning Guide.)

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Transcript (direct download link, from the Change Circle Library)

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In this month’s episode, Slavica is asking what to do about a developing relationship. Yi responds with Hexagram 13, People in Harmony, changing at lines 1, 2 and 6 to 28, Great Exceeding:

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I hope you enjoy listening – and if you’d like to join WikiWing, you can do that here!

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Transcript (direct download link, from the Change Circle Library)

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An exquisitely clear, simple reading for this month’s podcast: advice for someone who has just moved to a new town – Hexagram 52, Stilling, and 56, Travelling:

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There’s not much to add to that, is there?

(Except that if you haven’t already joined WikiWing, and you’d like to, you can do that at onlineclarity.co.uk/wiki.)

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Transcript (direct download link, from the Change Circle Library)

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A Clarity member’s reading, about a sphere of light and a magic tortoise. Here’s her original post about her experience. And for completeness, here’s a podcast from last year with the exact same reading, Hexagram 27 changing at line 1 to 23:

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I currently have some space available for free podcast readings, so if you’d like to discuss a reading on the podcast, please book yourself a slot here.

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Transcript (direct download link, from the Change Circle Library)

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Question: ‘What do I need to focus on now so that I can be living my best life in my third age?’

Answer: Hexagram 23, Stripping Away, changing at lines 1,2,3,4 and 6 to 34, Great Vigour.

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With her very first question to the Yi, Parmjit asked for focus, and received five moving lines; she was looking for direction, and her reading started with Hexagram 23 (‘no direction bears fruit’!). But it’s still the beginning of a beautiful friendship…

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Here's Yi doing something I'd never seen before: echoing and resonating with a Sanskrit mantra. Sana dreamt the Gayatri mantra; when she woke, she asked Yi for a picture of her inner landscape, and cast Hexagram 35, Advancing - - without changing lines. No decisions to be made or problems to be solved in this reading - just a gift to receive.

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Transcript (direct download link, from the Change Circle Library)

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Here’s episode 64 of the podcast, with a reading about recovery from depression:

How to be well? By Limping with Clarity…

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This looks like a complicated reading, but it really isn’t.

If you’d like to share a reading of your own on the podcast, you can do that at onlineclarity.co.uk/share. Private reading chats are included in Change Circle membership at onlineclarity.co.uk/circle.

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Transcript (direct download link, from the Change Circle Library)


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A reading for a decision this time: Sha asked,

“If I build another tech company, what will the experience be like?”

Yi answered with Hexagram 27, Nourishing, changing at lines 2 and 3 to 26, Great Tending:

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So that gave her an interesting couple of moving lines:

‘Unbalanced nourishment.
Rejecting the standard, looking to the hill-top for nourishment.
Setting out to bring order – pitfall.’

‘Rejecting nourishment.
Constancy, pitfall.
For ten years, don’t act.
No direction bears fruit.’

It looks as though the experience would be not much fun at all – but why…?

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Transcript (direct download link, from the Change Circle Library)

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Bill asked about his dating prospects, and received – of all things – the sixth line of Hexagram 24, Returning…

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…which is exactly no-one’s favourite line. So how do you respond when Yi’s answer is all doom and gloom, and really not what you hoped to hear? You explore… so we did.

Bill kindly interviewed me for his blog afterwards: here’s his article.

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A transcript is available in the Change Circle Library. Click or tap here to download.

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That’s something I asked Yi recently, and it answered with Hexagram 23, Stripping Away, changing at lines 1 and 6 to 24, Returning –

changing to

I think this is a lovely, fascinating, satisfying reading, so I’m sharing a few thoughts on it with you for this episode of the podcast. I hope you enjoy it!

(If you’d like to have a free reading on the podcast, you’re very welcome to book one here.)

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A listener’s reading for this month’s podcast: Ann asked,

‘How do I integrate myself as an artist with everyday life?’

And Yi answered with Hexagram 14, Great Possession, changing at lines 1 and 3 to 64, Not Yet Crossing.

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(If you enjoy this, please share it!)

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Brian asked,

“Why am I compelled to leave my job and join Greenpeace?”

and Yi responded with Hexagram 18, ‘Work on what has been spoiled’ in the Wilhelm/Baynes translation he was consulting.

This was in 1982: we’re revisiting the reading and learning from it, 43 years on.

Things we mention…

The ‘entangled pair’ – both inverse and complementary – of hexagrams 17 and 18:

paired with

And the nuclear story of Hexagram 18, passing through hexagrams 28, 54 and 27, which you can build from all its component trigrams:



And not least the I Ching Foundations Class – starting soon, see www.onlineClarity.co.uk/class !

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In this episode, Natalia is asking a wide-open question: where is she to go next? And Yi’s answer combines focus with openness: Hexagram 7, the Army, changing at line 2 to Hexagram 2, Earth:

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(You may notice something different at the beginning and end of this episode. The music is the same – the Allemande from Bach’s first suite for ‘cello – but since there’s some ambiguity about the public domain status of the recording I’ve been using in previous episodes, I’ve switched to a lovely, eloquent performance by Colin Carr, published by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and available here in full under this Creative Commons licence.)

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(Just one reading, sorry, not a universal formula.)

Paloma asked what to do about her worrying pension-less state, and cast Hexagram 5, Waiting, changing at lines 4 and 5 to 34, Great Vigour –

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So we talked about patience, and self-care, and standing firm, and also not standing firm at the bottom of a hole…

If you have a reading you’d like to share on the podcast, please book yourself a slot here!

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Charlie asked ‘How to navigate?’ and cast Hexagram 27, Nourishment – or Jaws – changing at line 1 to 23, Stripping Away:

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What followed was a strongly resonant conversation between his inner imagery and the imagery of the Yi – and also the ancient Chinese motif of being in the jaws of the tiger. The featured image above this post shows a detail from the handle of the Houmuwu vessel, where you can just see the human face between the tigers’ open mouths. (The original photo is by Mlogic, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.)

Here’s another example, from the 11th century BC:



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How does the Yi help in an impossibly painful situation? It’s hard to describe – deep recognition, being recognised, a sense of reconnection. Dominique’s reading for this episode:

“What is the lesson that I must learn through the pain of losing my marriage and our future?”

And Yi’s answer: Dispersing – Hexagram 59, with no changing lines.

It’s a beautiful response – I hope you enjoy listening.

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This podcast has a reading of my own, about creating a home. Yi answered with Hexagram 53, Gradual Progress, changing at line 5 to Hexagram 52, Stilling: changing to If you'd like to discuss a reading with me for a future episode (it's free, as a 'thank you' for sharing), please book here! In this one, I spend some time discussing the 'nuclear story' of the moving lines - how you can find four component trigrams in a hexagram, and the hexagrams they create. Here they are (because this is a lot easier to follow when you can see it): I cast this hexagram - and by taking groups of consecutive lines, you can find four trigrams inside it: - lines 1-2-3, 2-3-4, 3-4-5 and 4-5-6. So extract each of those trigrams, with the moving line included... …and combine them into hexagrams. Each hexagram's made from two overlapping trigrams: 39, Limping 64, Not Yet Crossing 37, People in the Home And there you have the three nuclear hexagrams I talk about in the episode.

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