Tortoise magic

The first thing you’re going to notice about this episode is the change of music. The new recording is Kimiko Ishizaka’s performance of the 9th of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, from her wonderful Open Goldberg Variations project. I hope you enjoy it! Three readings of mine get a mention in this podcast: Guidance for the week at Grittleton: Hexagram 51, Shock, changing at lines 1 and 4 to 2, Earth. changing to How to cope with the bog of 51.4? 4 unchanging – Not Knowing And advice for the next phase – Hexagram 1, Creative Force, changing at 1, 3, 4 and 5 to 4 again: changing to I’ll explain them all in the episode! Links I mentioned… Mountain above, about the name and trigram picture of Hexagram 4. Mark Silver on ignorance as a divine fence Grittleton! and also Young Grittleton, where players aged between 11 and 18 achieve extraordinary things. And not least, this is where you can book your own podcast reading (The photo for this post is of my ‘cello with a few of his friends and relations in the corridor at Grittleton.)

In this episode, Maggie and I dive into her reading about a possible new job: Hexagram 16, Enthusiasm, changing at lines 3 and 5 to 31, Influence. changing to It’s not only about being ‘open to the new’, I think – also about being prepared and actively engaged with the process. Installing the feudal lords, embracing the marriage, writing the music to sing… In the introduction I mention a similarity with episode 68, and at the end I talk about the Change Patterns course you can access inside Change Circle. (If you’re already a member, you’ll find it in the ‘Enrich your understanding section’ in the new Learning Guide.) (The music is performed by Colin Carr and licensed by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.)

In this month’s episode, Slavica is asking what to do about a developing relationship. Yi responds with Hexagram 13, People in Harmony, changing at lines 1, 2 and 6 to 28, Great Exceeding: changing to I hope you enjoy listening – and if you’d like to join WikiWing, you can do that here!

An exquisitely clear, simple reading for this month’s podcast: advice for someone who has just moved to a new town – Hexagram 52, Stilling, and 56, Travelling: changing to There’s not much to add to that, is there? (Except that if you haven’t already joined WikiWing, and you’d like to, you can do that at onlineclarity.co.uk/wiki.)

A Clarity member’s reading, about a sphere of light and a magic tortoise. Here’s her original post about her experience. And for completeness, here’s a podcast from last year with the exact same reading, Hexagram 27 changing at line 1 to 23: changing to I currently have some space available for free podcast readings, so if you’d like to discuss a reading on the podcast, please book yourself a slot here.

Question: ‘What do I need to focus on now so that I can be living my best life in my third age?’ Answer: Hexagram 23, Stripping Away, changing at lines 1,2,3,4 and 6 to 34, Great Vigour. changing to With her very first question to the Yi, Parmjit asked for focus, and received five moving lines; she was looking for direction, and her reading started with Hexagram 23 (‘no direction bears fruit’!). But it’s still the beginning of a beautiful friendship…

Here’s Yi doing something I’d never seen before: echoing and resonating with a Sanskrit mantra. Sana dreamt the Gayatri mantra; when she woke, she asked Yi for a picture of her inner landscape, and cast Hexagram 35, Advancing – – without changing lines. No decisions to be made or problems to be solved in this reading – just a gift to receive.

Here’s episode 64 of the podcast, with a reading about recovery from depression: How to be well? By Limping with Clarity… changing to This looks like a complicated reading, but it really isn’t. If you’d like to share a reading of your own on the podcast, you can do that at onlineclarity.co.uk/share. Private reading chats are included in Change Circle membership at onlineclarity.co.uk/circle.

A reading for a decision this time: Sha asked, “If I build another tech company, what will the experience be like?” Yi answered with Hexagram 27, Nourishing, changing at lines 2 and 3 to 26, Great Tending: changing to So that gave her an interesting couple of moving lines: ‘Unbalanced nourishment.Rejecting the standard, looking to the hill-top for nourishment.Setting out to bring order – pitfall.’ ‘Rejecting nourishment.Constancy, pitfall.For ten years, don’t act.No direction bears fruit.’ It looks as though the experience would be not much fun at all – but why…?

Bill asked about his dating prospects, and received – of all things – the sixth line of Hexagram 24, Returning… changing to …which is exactly no-one’s favourite line. So how do you respond when Yi’s answer is all doom and gloom, and really not what you hoped to hear? You explore… so we did. Bill kindly interviewed me for his blog afterwards: here’s his article.