Life lessons from Yi
This is one of those embarrassing experiences with Yi, but I wanted to share it all the same. It’s a very clear example of the difference a question – and the thought behind the question – can make....
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An audio entry, for a change. You can listen by clicking the ‘play’ button below – http://www.onlineClarity.co.uk/mp3files/lk.mp3 – or right-click here and choose ‘save target as’ to download the...
View ArticleI Ching Community: Divining or creating reality?
John Burke wrote in a blog comment: Recently I made this inquiry: ‘How should one balance divining reality with creating reality?’ I received 22 changing to 24. Any thoughts? I thought the I Ching...
View ArticleWrong answers?
Very interesting email from Donato: “Dear Hilary, I have been consulting I-Ching for many years, during crisis mainly and therefore for really important matters, as well for less decisive problems. In...
View ArticleWeekly I Ching reading
This entry is a follow-up to my post on ‘Life lessons from Yi‘ a few weeks ago. Like that one, it’s more personal-journal-ish than I usually write, but I hope it’ll provide a couple of ideas you can...
View ArticleChristmas I Ching
I’ ve been wondering and delighting in this reading for a year now – it seems a good time to share it. I had a Christian upbringing, and as I started reflecting for myself, I never quite saw the point...
View ArticleWeekly I Ching readings
Weekly readings are a blessing and a joy. I’m finding that the richest rewards come from asking an open-ended question every weekend, and keeping this separate from my readings about whatever pressing...
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Trigrams in the sequence from 24 to 25
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...
View ArticleAnnual readings
With the turning of the Chinese Year, more people are contemplating their annual I Ching reading. Over at ‘A touch of Ancients’, Allan Lian has written about the synchronicities that accompanied his...
View ArticleWhat is the I Ching?
The Funeral of the Real » I Ching and the Logos Here’s an unusual I Ching reading, interpreted with great creative insight from an unfamiliar perspective. The question is “What is the I Ching?”, the...
View ArticleBook of Change
The I Ching is the Book of Change. So when there is a change I very much want to make, but somehow haven’t managed yet, why not call on the oracle’s help? The most obvious way to do this is to ask...
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I Ching for activists at GreatVessel.com
The fourth ‘Readings Panel’ reading at GreatVessel.com is one Stephen Karcher cast on behalf of a group in June 2002: “What about President Bush and his plans for a war on Iraq? What attitude or stance...
View ArticleMeeting Grey Rat
A few weeks ago, I went to stay with Mum for a while, helping her out after a stay in hospital. First thing after we arrived, I asked Yi for advice for the next week or so, and received Hexagram 16,...
View ArticlePushing Upward, but where to?
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...
View ArticleGood advice on Hexagram 25
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,...
View ArticleAnother question for the I Ching
It occurs to me that back in an agrarian society, every ordinary activity would have its ritual place in the bigger scheme of things. Ploughing, sowing, harvesting, storing and ripening – these things...
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Dispersing Nourishment
This is an embarrassingly ‘first world problems’ kind of reading, but happily Yi doesn’t judge – and it was tremendously helpful at the time, so I thought it would be a good one to share. The...
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Out of the gate
This is by way of a follow-up to my ‘Dispersing Nourishment‘ reading. I thought I’d share as it’s another reading that shows how Yi helps with the small stuff, and on multiple levels. Besides, I...
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Too many readings?
This was going to be a simple post A worried client emailed me. He’d just been organising his journal, listing all his readings, and found there were a whole lot more on one topic than he’d thought....
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Reflections on Lasting
A little background Let me set some context for this one. Back in November 2021, I’d just finished planting garlic round the half-dozen raised beds I’ve created over the years, then mulching the beds...
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