That's something I asked Yi recently, and it answered with Hexagram 23, Stripping Away, changing at lines 1 and 6 to 24, Returning -
changing to
I think this is a lovely, fascinating, satisfying reading, so I'm sharing a few thoughts on it with you for this episode of the podcast. I hope you enjoy it!
(If you'd like to have a free reading on the podcast, you're very welcome to book one here.)
An update…
Just after publishing this episode, I was sorting through some foraged chestnuts when I found the one whose photograph you can see above. I didn't roast it; I'm going to take it with me on my next foraging walk to the local woods and tuck it into the leaf litter.
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Yi’s companionship
Brian asked,
"Why am I compelled to leave my job and join Greenpeace?"
and Yi responded with Hexagram 18, 'Work on what has been spoiled' in the Wilhelm/Baynes translation he was consulting.
This was in 1982: we’re revisiting the reading and learning from it, 43 years on.
Things we mention...
The 'entangled pair' - both inverse and complementary - of hexagrams 17 and 18:
paired with
And the nuclear story of Hexagram 18, passing through hexagrams 28, 54 and 27, which you can build from all its component trigrams:
And not least the I Ching Foundations Class - starting soon, see www.onlineClarity.co.uk/class !
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Where next?
In this episode, Natalia is asking a wide-open question: where is she to go next? And Yi's answer combines focus with openness: Hexagram 7, the Army, changing at line 2 to Hexagram 2, Earth:
changing to
(You may notice something different at the beginning and end of this episode. The music is the same - the Allemande from Bach's first suite for 'cello - but since there's some ambiguity about the public domain status of the recording I've been using in previous episodes, I've switched to a lovely, eloquent performance by Colin Carr, published by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and available here in full under this Creative Commons licence.)
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Panic-free finances
(Just one reading, sorry, not a universal formula.)
Paloma asked what to do about her worrying pension-less state, and cast Hexagram 5, Waiting, changing at lines 4 and 5 to 34, Great Vigour -
changing to
So we talked about patience, and self-care, and standing firm, and also not standing firm at the bottom of a hole...
If you have a reading you'd like to share on the podcast, please book yourself a slot here!
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In the Jaws
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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