A ‘nuclear story’ (my term for something many people have described before me) is found within a single hexagram, by ‘unpacking’ its trigrams and nuclear trigrams. It unfolds a kind of ‘hidden adventure’ for the hexagram. I realise I’ve written this up for Change Circle members in some detail (see this… Read more »Book of nuclear stories
I wrote about how Stripping Away, in its ideal form as depicted by the Image, might be painless – but that’s not how the process starts, and not our dominant experience of it. Hexagram 23 typically shows up as something you have to undergo; it is fruitless to have a… Read more »Stripping Away: a change of perspective
The Image of Hexagram 3, Sprouting, says, ‘Clouds, thunder, Sprouting. A noble one weaves warp and weft.’ or as Bradford Hatcher translates, ‘sorts warp from weft’. What the noble one does is just two characters: jinglun, 經綸. Jing is the same word as in Yijing and literally means the warp threads on a loom,… Read more »A string sort of thing: hexagrams 3 and 40
a guest article by Mick Frankel The Basics Most people know of the I Ching as a book of divination. You ask a question and, most often use either coins or yarrow stalks to end up with a pattern of six lines. Each line is either a solid line (Yang)… Read more »Organisations as Hexagrams
También disponible en español The name of this hexagram clearly resembles a seedling: a root and the beginnings of leaves, reflecting the priorities of every germinating seed. I have to insert a proviso here: Harmen Mesker has been looking into early meanings of this character and thinks it’s more likely… Read more »3, Sprouting
Quick introductions… My name’s Hilary Barrett, and I live in a tiny hamlet in Dorset with my husband David (who’s extraordinary – but that’s for another website). If you’re visiting Dorset and would like to meet up, please do get in touch. Clarity’s been my work since the year 2000: writing,… Read more »About
Having conversations with a 3,000-year-old book? The Yijing’s a wonderful, fascinating oracle. It can be absolutely direct – and it can be quite tricky to relate to. You might ask about your job and receive an answer about marrying as a second wife – or ask about a house purchase… Read more »Language of Change
