Many users of the Yijing struggle with the text of the oracle: how can you read it in such a way that it always gives a meaningful and relevant answer to the question or situation that you address to the Book of Changes? This workshop will teach you...
A new series of videos – the title says it all: Examples of Early Yijing Divination (1): the misformed feet of Gongmeng Zhi – YouTube
Exciting news! Johannes Bloemsma and I started a Yi podcast: Casting Changes: Podcasts about the YI in Times of Movement. The first podcast is available now – an introduction about who we are, what we do and what we are going to do with the podcast....
A video about the distorted view that exists of the history of the two most important trigram circles.
Examining a cryptic sentence from the Shuogua 說卦.
The character hui 悔 appears many times in the Zhouyi, the core text of the Book of Changes, and is often translated as ‘regret’. A student asked me if I could tell a little bit more about this character, and although I already examined this characte...
Lotti replied to my article, and added a message from Hilary as well. I’ll address both Lotti’s reply and Hilary’s message in this video. I choose to reply by video because that is currently easier for me, and I can tell and show more with a visual p...
In my The Mystery of the Text online course I talk about the etymology of Chinese characters, and how the majority of the Chinese characters are composed: there is a meaning component, that gives a hint for the meaning, and a sound component, that gi...
In September I’ll start another The Power of the Hexagrams Course! If you agree with one or more of the following statements, then this workshop is for you: – I always find it difficult to interpret the answers from the Yijing – I only use the te...
In this video we are going to look at the phrase she da chuan 涉大川, ‘cross the great river’ and the early usage of the keywords from this phrase.
