Yi playing ball
Since I first started working with Yi, I’ve enjoyed asking about the outcome of tennis matches. The dual between individuals, as much psychological as technical – it’s something very natural to divine...
View ArticleA novel view of hexagram 29, line 4
‘A cup, a drink, and a plate, Using earthenware, Letting them in on ropes from the window. In the end, no mistake.’ Someone is confined in the Pit – someone reaches them in simple ways. I’ve seen this...
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Yi on quantum mechanics?
Warning: my physics education ended when I was about 13: given the chance, I couldn’t drop the subject fast enough. So what follows is going to be wrong-headed in all kinds of ways. But at least I can...
View ArticleWanderer’s Vessel: a reading
Here is another audio entry (about 15 minutes, this one) – click the ‘play’ button, or right click here to download the file if that doesn’t work. I’m trying something new here: previously I’ve always...
View ArticleAllan Lian on hexagram 18
Spoiled by the mother An interesting account from Allan Lian of an investment reading. He was considering investing more in a company when he asked Yi about this, and received 18, line 2: ‘Ancestral...
View ArticleStaying at line 3
I was working on a reading for a client. And the gist of the answer was unmissable: what she’s asking about is a very good idea. I didn’t understand why it is, though – it’s hard to connect these...
View ArticleI Ching Community: What is a Universal Truth
JerryD thought to ask the I Ching, ‘What is a Universal Truth?’ (capital U, capital T) Yi answered with Hexagram 13, unchanging: People in Harmony. Well, different people have different takes on this,...
View ArticleLearning from the tennis again
I used to play around trying to predict the outcome of tennis games with Yi. I still find it fascinating as a way of learning more about hexagrams. Big singles tennis matches are huge contests between...
View ArticleYi’s recommended reading
I dropped into Oxford today on the way home from a friend’s, and found my way into Blackwell’s – the university bookshop. And down to the Chinese history section, where I came across an...
View ArticleYi reading Harry Potter
OK… Spoiler warnings here!! I’ve been talking with Yi about the situation at the very end of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, so if you don’t want to know what that situation is before you...
View ArticleHarry Potter and the Book of Changes (again)
One other reading I did about the latest HP book (and I do promise that the next blog entry will be about something different)… ~~more spoilers coming up, look away now!~~ …was about where Snape stands...
View ArticleI Ching and tarot together
Something I just tried, that seems to work quite well: putting a question to Yi, reflecting on the answer – and drawing a single tarot card as a cue – or a clue – to ways to think about it. Asking what...
View ArticleI Ching on international politics
Sam Crane has a great Taoist blog, the Useless Tree, where he’s branching out into I Ching divination – it looks as though he’s making ‘Friday I Ching blogging’ a regular thing. At the beginning of...
View ArticleI Ching webinar news – and some readings of my own
The short version, in case you don’t have eight minutes to listen to the audio: we had an informal webinar sharing readings; it was a success; people enjoyed it. I’ll be running more of these, and...
View ArticleA practical reading
Just a small example of the kind of day-to-day help Yi provides for the asking. Not earth-shattering, just solid common sense (which, as my Mum’s Mum used to say, isn’t common) and good advice. You can...
View ArticleThe Useless Tree: Friday I Ching Blogging: Reversal of Verdict on June 4th...
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...
View ArticleWhy ask political questions?
Email from John: “I was wondering why someone such as the host of ‘Useless Tree’ would ask such large questions as he does. Isn’t it better to ask such questions so as to influence events to promote...
View ArticleFriday I Ching: Hurricanes and the Mandate of Heaven
The Useless Tree: Friday I Ching: Hurricanes and the Mandate of Heaven Sam Crane has found quite a question to ask this time: “What does this second hurricane suggest for President Bush’s hold on the...
View ArticleI Ching Community: identifying demons
I Ching Community Discussion Forum: Who is “the Devil” in this cast? Ole’s story of a series of readings, giving a very good, practical demonstration of how to use line pathways (along with gut...
View ArticleFriday I Ching from Uselesstree: Bush Will Rebound
The Useless Tree: Friday I Ching: Bush Will Rebound Sam Crane asked Yi how Bush should handle whatever the fallout may be from the latest political scandals, and received 16 changing to 24. He’s...
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