Wonderings and wanderings of an Yi informed mind.

A set of Chinese Yijing Cards

By sparhawk | February 4, 2023 - 5:43 pm |February 4, 2023 Uncategorized

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What follows is a set of 64 Chinese Yijing cards.

Divine! Divine! Open up a path! Or postal encounters of the third kind.

By sparhawk | December 26, 2016 - 7:01 pm |May 4, 2021 Rants, Yijing

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Shortly before my son returned home from his three years work term in Japan, he sent back a few boxes with clothes and books he accumulated over that period. He used Japan’s postal service for that and, trying to save a few bucks, he paid the surface rate, you know, the… Continue reading →

On “Disaster”, Walking Staffs and the Yijing

By sparhawk | September 13, 2015 - 11:22 pm |August 3, 2019 Research and notes, Yijing

Prologue I suppose there shouldn’t be a need for a prologue to a blog post; after all, this isn’t a book or an academic paper. Alas, I feel there is a need for it. Having dedicated more than 40 years of my life to the study of the Yijing (I… Continue reading →

On Uncertainty and the Yijing

By sparhawk | October 12, 2013 - 1:11 pm |June 2, 2015 Yijing

Just recently, a fellow Yixue student, the philosopher, musician and writer, Will Buckingham, wrote a very interesting article for Aeon Magazine, titled the “Uncertainty Machine”. Here are a few thoughts that I intended to post as a comment to the article but it became too long, and I think important,… Continue reading →

Yijing Walking Paths

By sparhawk | April 16, 2013 - 9:12 pm |October 20, 2013 Yijing

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Something I wrote in Clarity on Nov/12/2011, about a novel way to read hexagrams and follow “paths” amongst the lines. The text below is in a private part of Clarity but I wanted to have a record of it here also, with a date stamp. Personal information has been removed… Continue reading →