Charlie asked 'How to navigate?' and cast Hexagram 27, Nourishment - or Jaws - changing at line 1 to 23, Stripping Away:
changing to
What followed was a strongly resonant conversation between his inner imagery and the imagery of the Yi - and also the ancient Chinese motif of being in the jaws of the tiger. The featured image above this post shows a detail from the handle of the Houmuwu vessel, where you can just see the human face between the tigers' open mouths. (The original photo is by Mlogic, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.)
Here's another example, from the 11th century BC:
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36:18
A marriage dispersing
How does the Yi help in an impossibly painful situation? It's hard to describe - deep recognition, being recognised, a sense of reconnection. Dominique's reading for this episode:
"What is the lesson that I must learn through the pain of losing my marriage and our future?"
And Yi's answer: Dispersing - Hexagram 59, with no changing lines.
It's a beautiful response - I hope you enjoy listening
Transcript, for Change Circle members
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31:09
Sprouting
Ludimila had graduated in psychology and opened her doors as a therapist a few years previously, but wondered whether she was being prompted to hold onto her secure, old work as a teacher and translator. So she asked,
'What should I focus on professionally?'
and cast Hexagram 3, Sprouting, with no changing lines. It's a beautifully simple answer, and we thoroughly enjoyed exploring it together.
Those explorations touched on the nuclear story, at which point I came up with a highly sophisticated visual aid...
(This may come in useful towards the end of the episode if you're not familiar with nuclear trigrams and hexagrams!)
You can learn more about Ludimila and her work here - she does sessions in both Portugese and English.
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39:26
‘How to approach the I Ching?’
That was Nathaniel's question for this podcast episode. Here's the reading he cast -
changing to
- Hexagram 26, Great Tending, changing at line 1 to Hexagram 18, Corruption. As you might imagine, the moving line gave us pause for thought!
Nathaniel mentioned a previous episode, the one about Family Constellations work, that also featured Hexagram 18, and also Benebell Wen's interesting new translation; I mentioned Margaret Pearson's.
(If you'd like to share a reading of your own on the podcast, you can book that here!)
https://livingchange.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/episode53.mp3
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45:28
Almost crossing the river
A lovely conversation with Roslyn, about starting an online class to teach Daoist and complementary practices to women - about trepidation and confidence, pacing and patience, foxes and drunkenness, elephants and armies...
Her reading was Hexagram 64, Not Yet Across, changing at lines 2 and 6 to 16, Enthusiasm:
changing to
Links I mention in the audio:
to share a reading on the podcast: onlineClarity.co.uk/share.
to join Change Circle (where membership also includes private readings): onlineClarity.co.uk/circle.
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