What is a soulmate?
Photo by vijay kumar from Pexels The situation: 20.1.6 (20 > 3) James LeggeTaoscopy (GB)TaoscopyCharles de HarlezTaoscopieTaoszkópia ...
There are no Yi-Jing masters
Photo by Nam Hoang on Unsplash We are all Yi-Jing students! But, if you prefer, we are all Yi-Jing masters, to a certain point. It makes people feel more confident if someone is knowledgeable in their domain. The oracle and the...
Validating Comments
When I started studying the I Ching, I promptly realized that the hexagrams were describing situations. The comments associated with each hexagram and line either give proper advice, or describe the situation and eventually predict its...
Can the I Ching predict the future?
The title itself of this blog post resumes the difficulty that we face. I could have chosen instead "Can I predict the future by using the I Ching?" or "Does the I Ching's oracle know the future?". This is a difficult question, because...
Interpreting multiple lines: the pivot method revisited
The pivot methodWhen obtaining a multiple lines reading, you can use one line or groupe of lines as a pivot and amend it with the remaining line (or alternatively take one line as pivot and amend it with the remaining line or group of...
A promising methodology for interpreting multiple changing lines
While the interpretation of unchanging hexagrams and single changing line hexagrams, it has always been difficult to interpret multiple lines.Several methods have been suggested, which all gave mixed results. Sometimes they were...
43.5: Bad herb gone good
The Yi Jing comments have been made by humans, and as such they carry their lot of misunderstandings and mistakes. I have pointed already that mantic formulas like "Fortune" and "Misfortune" contradict the comments of 16.1 and 58.5. But...
