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'Answers' I Ching blog

'Answers' I Ching blog

http://www.onlineClarity.co.uk/answers/

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.

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  • Getting written

    Posted on Tuesday December 8th, 2009 at 03:45 in i ching, i ching readings

    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

    Posted on Sunday December 6th, 2009 at 12:01 in i ching, interpreting hexagrams

    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

    Posted on Wednesday September 2nd, 2009 at 14:45 in i ching, interpreting hexagrams

    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

    Posted on Tuesday September 1st, 2009 at 14:28 in i ching, divination tips

    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

    Posted on Sunday August 30th, 2009 at 14:17 in i ching, divination tips

    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

    Posted on Sunday August 16th, 2009 at 08:43 in i ching, interpreting hexagrams, hexagram 32

    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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