Living Change I Ching Podcast

In this episode of the I Ching with Clarity podcast, Rachel asks the Yi how she can 'lose habitual hardship' - shift her experience so not everything is about crisis management! Yi answers with Hexagram 26, Great Taming, changing at lines 1 and 6 to 46, Pushing Upward: changing to It's a very lively reading, full of encouragement, warning and the mysterious promise of 26.6: ‘Is this heaven’s highway?Creating success.’Hexagram 26, line 6 I hope you enjoy listening! And if you'd like to share and explore a reading of your own on the podcast, you can still book that here.

A listener's reading for this episode of the I Ching with Clarity podcast: Vidia asked, 'How can I move forward and be of service?' Yi answered with Hexagram 8, Seeking Union, with no changing lines - a beautifully simple answer that gave us the opportunity for a deep dive into its imagery and stories. Mentioned during our conversation… The name of the hexagram, bi, with its two human figures walking close together: Bi, name of Hexagram 8 Rilke on living the questions: …I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.from Letters

In which you will encounter hesitation, second-guessing, repetitious readings, decision, 'contradictory' moving lines (what do you do with those?), a good dose of common sense and a particularly persistent troll. Also these readings... Hexagram 18, Corruption, changing at line 3 to 4, Not Knowing: changing to Hexagram 49, Radical Change, changing at lines 2, 3 and 5 to 54, the Marrying Maiden: changing to Hexagram 6, Arguing, changing at lines 5 and 6 to 40, Release: changing to And finally, Hexagram 45, Gathering, changing at line 2 to Hexagram 47, Confined: changing to Listen for the full story - I hope you enjoy it! Obviously with that many readings, this is more of a canter through, not a deep dive into any of them. Is this useful/ interesting, or do you prefer the episodes with just one reading? (If you'd like to discuss your own reading on the podcast - it's free! - book yourself a slot here.)

Sergio asked a big question for this podcast reading: how to deal with his sense that his life lacked meaning. Yi's response was quite a modest, domestic one: Hexagram 37, People in the Home, changing at the fifth line to 22, Beauty: changing to 'With the king's presence, there is a home.Do not worry. Good fortune.'Hexagram 37, line 5 Perhaps it's as simple as that...

This podcast has a reading of my own, about creating a home. Yi answered with Hexagram 53, Gradual Progress, changing at line 5 to Hexagram 52, Stilling: changing to If you'd like to discuss a reading with me for a future episode (it's free, as a 'thank you' for sharing), please book here! In this one, I spend some time discussing the 'nuclear story' of the moving lines - how you can find four component trigrams in a hexagram, and the hexagrams they create. Here they are (because this is a lot easier to follow when you can see it): I cast this hexagram - and by taking groups of consecutive lines, you can find four trigrams inside it: - lines 1-2-3, 2-3-4, 3-4-5 and 4-5-6. So extract each of those trigrams, with the moving line included... …and combine them into hexagrams. Each hexagram's made from two overlapping trigrams: 39, Limping 64, Not Yet Crossing 37, People in the Home And there you have the three nuclear hexagrams I talk about in the

A reading for an I Ching Community member, Honey, aka MeltingPot247, with four moving lines full of darkness and warnings - What do I need to know about this relationship as it is now? The answer: Hexagram 32, Lasting, changing at lines 1, 3 4 and 6 to 41, Decrease. changing to There's a lot to listen to, here: how Honey's experiencing the tension between the two hexagrams, the realities of Lasting and her need for Decrease; how she recognises each moving line (especially line 6, which was much clearer to her than it was to me!); how the Steps of Change help her to 'find herself' at each stage; how an overall picture comes together. In the reading, I mention the Chinese characters for the names of the two hexagrams. You can see them both and read more about them at LiSe Heyboer's website: Heng, Lasting and Sun, Decrease. And if you'd like more information about Change Circle, Clarity's core membership, here you go.

In this episode, Raka shares two readings: 'What if I go back to university for postgraduate studies?' Yi answers with Hexagram 22, Beauty, changing at line 2 to 26, Great Taming: changing to and 'What if I just leave this whole university thing?' ...which gave her Hexagram 20, Seeing, changing at lines 1 and 5 to 27, Nourishment: changing to I'm sorry about the sound quality, which isn't up to my usual standards - I hope it won't detract from your enjoyment of the episode. And please rate, review and/or share - thank you!

In this episode, I share a couple of readings from my journal: 'What about leaving this volunteering role?' 32.3 to 40'What do I do when I'm there?' 61.4.6 to 58 And I talk about conversation with Yi, the interplay of text and structure, catching up with the reading years later, and the experience of having an oracle slap me round the face with a wet fish. Sign up here for a free I Ching chat to be shared on the podcast.

In this podcast episode, Lucy asks why she's hesitant to use her gifts - and Yi responds with Hexagram 7, the Army, changing at line 4 to Hexagram 40, Releasing: changing to The moving line: 'The army camps on the left,No mistake.'Hexagram 7, line 4 ...which certainly casts new light on this idea of 'hesitation'. I've added an interlude part-way through, where I talk about the relating hexagram and its role in the reading. As ever, I'd welcome your feedback!

For this 15th episode of the I Ching with Clarity podcast, I asked the oracle to explain the whole idea of a 'New Year' to me. 'What's a creative way to imagine New Year? What's its deeper significance?' Yi responds with Hexagram 57, Subtly Penetrating, changing at lines 2 and 5 to 52, Stilling: changing to A short episode, this one, with only my voice. (Back to listener readings next month! And you're very welcome to share one of yours - you can book a reading here.) I hope you enjoy it, and I wish you a very happy New Year, where nothing fails to bear fruit.

In this fourteenth episode of the I Ching with Clarity podcast, Sasha shares a relationship reading: Hexagram 29, the Repeating Chasms, with no changing lines: If you've ever wondered what to make of an unchanging reading, this one could be helpful: we take our time exploring the hexagram's atmosphere, its context - where it comes from, what it isn't saying - and, most importantly, what Sasha recognises about it. I also experimented with adding an 'interlude' mid-reading to explain how I was using the patterns of the extended Sequence to tell more of the reading's story. Let me know whether that's useful! If you'd like to have a reading in a future episode - it's free, of course - please book here.

Episode 13 of the I Ching with Clarity podcast features an author who's on the cusp of sending her book out into the world, just not quite sure why she doesn't feel ready for this. Is this the time, or should she wait? Yi gave her Hexagram 42, Increasing, changing at lines 5 and 6 to 24, Returning: changing to Line 5 is lovely: 'True and confident, with a benevolent heart,No question: good fortune from the source.Truth, confidence and benevolence are my own strength.'Hexagram 42, line 5 Line 6... isn't: 'Absolutely no increase in this,Maybe someone strikes this one.The heart's foundation is not lasting,Pitfall'Hexagram 42, line 6 What to make of the contrast, and the 'scary' line? Here's the episode -

Pamela contributed a thoroughly unusual reading for episode 12 of the podcast... She asked, 'What do I need to know about the snake?' and Yi answered with Hexagram 8, Seeking Union, changing at lines 1, 3 and 5 to 36, Brightness Hiding: changing to Here's the snake in question (with thanks to Pamela for the photo): - listen to the episode for the full story. And here are three Chinese characters I mentioned during our conversation: Bi, name of Hexagram 8Yong, ever-flowingYuan, wellspring (Isn't that an interesting visual 'rhyme' between bi and yong?) With its three moving lines, this reading's a bit longer than previous episodes. I hope you still enjoy it - let me know!

This is episode 11 of the I Ching with Clarity podcast, featuring another listener's reading. Sarah asked, "How can I better convey my authentic and true self with others?" and Yi replied with Hexagram 45, Gathering, changing at lines 4,5 and 6 to 23, Stripping Away - changing to It's a deep, rich reading, profoundly reassuring. As we were talking about 45.5 - 'Gathering together has a position.No mistake.No trust at all.From the source, ever-flowing constancy.Regrets vanish.'Hexagram 45, line 5 - I showed Sarah this page of ancient forms of the character yong, 'perpetual, ever-flowing', which shows a human figure flowing with the river currents. The story it reminded me of was this one, from Zhuangzi. Enjoy the reading! And if you'd like a free podcast reading yourself, you're very welcome to apply here.

Episode 10 of the I Ching with Clarity podcast features a listener's reading. Lynn Keller's book, Thanksgiving in America, is just coming out; she asked Yi what her focus should be now with the book, and received Hexagram 33, Retreating, changing at lines 3 and 4 to 20, Seeing. changing to In the course of the reading I mention a few Chinese characters: 遯 dun, Retreat. I couldn't find an image of the ancient character online, but LiSe shows us the components. 觀 guan, Seeing - the bird with great eyes and a crest, a heron: guan, seeing, from hanziyuan.net and 好 hao, 'loving, good' (from 33.4), showing a mother and child: hao, good, from hanziyuan.net As I mentioned on the podcast, the Yijing Foundations Class is coming up in September. Do have a look through the details at https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/c/yijing-foundations-class/, and if you're interested, sign up for more information.

I'm sharing two 'behind the scenes' readings of my own in this one - encouragement from Yi that nudged me along the path towards relaunching the podcast. The questions: 'What about restarting the podcast soon?'and'How about this idea of a podcast solely of readings?' There's also a lovely example of Yi making connections between readings - it's always worth being on the alert for those! Next month's episode will have a reading conversation - subscribe to the podcast to make sure you don't miss it. Would you like yours to be featured - a free reading, in return for your permission to publish? Then book your reading here.

If you're new to the I Ching, this episode and the one before it will make the readings in Clarity's podcast much easier to follow. Here’s the audio version of the beginners’ course, part 2. (You can find the written and illustrated version of the course at https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/learn/beginners/ .)

If you're new to the I Ching, this episode and the one that follows will make the readings in Clarity's podcast much easier to follow. Here's the audio version of the beginners' course, part 1. (You can find the written and illustrated version of the course at https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/learn/beginners/ .)

Next month, I'm restarting the Clarity podcast. Formerly 'Living Change', now just the 'I Ching with Clarity podcast', it'll have a new episode each month, and every episode will discuss a real-life reading. (Actually the next couple of episodes will come sooner than that and won't be readings: I'm going to add the free beginners' course to the podcast, to make it more accessible to newcomers to the I Ching. But after that, it's one reading per month.) Subscribe now to get notified of new episodes! Or get email notifications - (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//forms.aweber.com/form/63/653465463.js"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "aweber-wjs-mzfrf1sdi")); Would you like a reading? This opens up a new way for you to get a reading with me for free, provided you're happy to share it on the podcast. You can find more detail

One more episode - this one about staying connected to a flow of energy. Download mp3 Any comments? Any suggestions for future questions?