A listener's reading for this month's podcast: Ann asked,



'How do I integrate myself as an artist with everyday life?'



And Yi answered with Hexagram 14, Great Possession, changing at lines 1 and 3 to 64, Not Yet Crossing.





changing to





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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.)

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 !

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.)

(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!

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:

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.

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.

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!)



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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.

This episode features a reading for the year ahead. Kalimah's question:




"Please comment on the year ahead. What I can expect? And also, how best to work with the energies within and around me?"




Yi answered with Hexagram 23, Stripping Away, changing at lines 1, 4, 5 and 6 to 17, Following:





changing to





The meanings of the two hexagrams turned out to blend and harmonise in a very clear, satisfying way.



Kalimah's shared a reading on the podcast once before, a year ago, so we took a moment to review how that reading had worked out. (Here's the original episode.)



I hope you enjoy this one - don't forget you can book your own free reading for the podcast here...

Here's a gentle exploration of Hexagram 22, Beauty, in which we work our way round to understanding! Kim asked 'What's happening?' - looking for a picture of the greater pattern of her life. I think Yi handed her the paintbrush...

This month's podcast features one of those readings where Yi really takes your breath away:



'How beneficial would it be for me to join the next course on family constellations?'



Yi's response: Hexagram 18, Corruption, changing at lines 2, 3, 4 and 6 to 16, Enthusiasm.





changing to





Lux (as Lagartija) had originally posted this reading to the I Ching Community, so you can read the background there.



If you'd like to share a reading of your own on the podcast - it's free - you're very welcome to book yourself a slot!https://livingchange.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/episode49.mp3

As you might have guessed from the title of this episode, it's about a reading with Hexagram 22, Beauty, changing at line 1 to 52, Stilling:





changing to





It was all about becoming imperfectly visible - which the reading's owner has just begun to do on her Youtube channel...



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An annual reading, this time: the first thing Maria does on her birthday is to sit down and ask to be shown a reading for the coming year. Here's hers for 2023-24: Hexagram 36, Brightness Hiding, with no changing lines.







Since this was an unchanging reading, we had the time and space to explore some of the hexagram's 'relations': its inverse and contrast, 35, Advancing -







and its complement or opposite - the hexagram where every line is different - 6, Arguing:







And not least, its hidden core, the nuclear hexagram, 40:







...which seemed to open everything out for her.



https://livingchange.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/episode47.mp3

In this episode, Katarina and I discuss her reading about moving to a new part of the country - Hexagram 7, the Army, changing at line 2 to 2, Earth:





changing to





As we talk about her plans, you can hear the qualities of the hexagrams - that meeting of organised focus with openness to guidance that's found in the moving line, where the general must stay on the alert for new orders...




'Positioned in the centre of the army.Good fortune, no mistake.The king issues a mandate three times.'




If you'd like to learn to read the I Ching for other people, the Reading for Others Class starts in September. Booking isn't open yet, but if you're interested, please make sure your name and email is on the notifications list so I can let you know! You'll find the sign-up form and all the details here.

A reading where we already knew the outcome - which really gives us a chance to learn from it! The reading's about a family argument, and pausing to find a new way to respond, and the advice was Hexagram 5, Waiting, changing at lines 2 and 3 to 3, Sprouting:





changing to





I hope you enjoy this one - and to benefit from the I Ching Community's shared hindsight, do join WikiWing!

Episode 44 of the I Ching with Clarity podcast is about an artist getting started with showing her art, one step at a time - Hexagram 46, Pushing Upward, changing to the Repeating Chasms of Hexagram 29, which made their presence felt as an emotional background.





changing to





I hope you enjoy this one! (There's a last-minute update right at the end.) If you'd like to discuss a reading of your own on the podcast, you can book a slot here.

A new listener's reading for this podcast episode:



'What to expect in this relationship?'



And Yi's answer -





changing to





Hexagram 41, Decreasing, changing to 26, Great Tending (or Taming or Nurturing...), with changing line 3:




'Three people walking,Hence decreased by one person.One person walking,Hence gains a friend.'
Hexagram 41, line 3



Who are the people walking, and what could this be about?



(If you'd like some more listening/reading, here's an earlier episode that also started with Hexagram 41, and here's a post about how mountain works as outer trigram.)

Question:



"What advice can be offered for more effectively providing meditative peace and healing through playing Shakuhachi flute music?"



Answer: Great Vigour in Flow.





changing to





A Yeeky thing I mentioned during this reading: the idea of a dabagua, or 'big trigram' hexagram. If you take the trigram dui, lake...







...and double each of its lines individually, in turn - from yang, yang, yin to yang+yang, yang+yang, yin+yin - then you have Hexagram 34:







In each hexagram formed this way - I mentioned this once before when I was writing about Hexagram 33 - it can help to think of it as a 'giant trigram' - and a giant lake seemed especially apt for a musician.



You can find Ron's music at https://www.bracalemusic.com.