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'Answers' I Ching blog
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I Ching Q&A and links, divination tips, in-depth articles on individual hexagrams and lines, and discussion of I Ching reading as part of personal and spiritual growth.
Recent Posts
Getting written
There’s something about writing on the Yijing - it’s not like other books, that just sit there mutely and allow themselves to be translated. I think people who’ve worked through the hexagram-by-hexagram threads over the years have h...
Pounding the drum
Hexagram 14, Great Possession, says at line 4, 匪其彭。无咎。 - Not your (or its) peng, no mistake. Peng means power and dominance - Wu Jing Nuan translates with his usual succinctness, ‘Not his to be ...
Not Knowing etymology
All meanings of the name of this post are intentional, as I really don’t know the first thing about Chinese etymology. But in my ignorance, I just stumbled over something wonderful in the first line of Hexagram 4, Not Knowing. Hexagram 4, line ...
Not Knowing and Protection
One of the meanings of Hexagram 4, Not Knowing, is being ‘covered over’, like a young animal whose mother hides it in the undergrowth. This means you can’t see as far as you’d like to, something which people tend to find frust...
Yi, or the Yi
A while ago, I received an email politely suggesting I stop referring to the Yi simply as ‘Yi’ without an article. The writer maintained that since the oracle is ‘not a person’, it would be better not to give it a ‘pet n...
Lasting
For some reason, working through the lines of hexagram 32 recently took much longer than any other hexagram had done… I did find, looking through threads about it at the forum, that other people find it hard, too. Especially, it’s puzzl...


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