I Ching with Clarity podcast – I Ching with Clarity Hilary Barrett

Question:







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







Answer: Great Vigour in Flow.











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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.

Question:







'What do I need to know as I prepare to finish this book and send it out into the world?'







Answer: Hexagram 2, Earth, changing at lines 4 and 6 to 35, Advancing:











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As Kat and I discussed this one in this latest podcast episode, we mentioned...









* The glorious Hyperbole and a Half







* 35 as relating hexagram







* Why dragons fight in Hexagram 2 line 6









...and also the ancient form of a couple of words from the text: shi, 'power', as in the Image of Hexagram 2 -









'Power of the land: Earth.A noble one, with generous character, carries all the beings.'









- has two components: 'strength', and this one, which is purely phonetic, showing a human figure about to plant a seedling:







From Chinese etymology







And then we also talked about yu, 'praise' - you can see early forms of that one here.







Enjoy the episode! (And if you'd like to share a reading of your own on a future episode, you can book a reading here.)

This episode of the podcast could also be entitled 'light dawns in the end,' as it took a while for me to join all the dots between the querent's situation and the reading. It's a great example of how Yi talks to the whole person, though, as well as answering the question.







Mukul asked, 'What would be a good next step towards getting a new source of regular income?' and Yi answered with Hexagram 13, People in Harmony, changing at line 5 to Hexagram 30, Clarity:











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The listener's reading for this episode has an unusual premise: Beebee was trying to work out why what she was trying to manifest in her life wasn't happening. Where was the block? She asked,







"What actions are needed from me in order to achieve my desires?"







And Yi responded with Hexagram 29, the Repeating Chasms, changing at lines 2, 3 and 6 to 53, Gradual Progress:











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Not an easy one to hear...

A new podcast reading: how to find more fulfillment in life? Not (in this reading) by doing stuff - more by feeling your way deeply into experience. The answer was Hexagram 57, changing at lines 2 and 3 to 20, Seeing:











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I quoted from LiSe Heyboer's page on Hexagram 57 during this one (because I love it). You can read the whole thing here.

Episode 37 of the I Ching with Clarity podcast features a listener's reading. She's wondering whether her desire to create a business is her real path, or whether she could be losing herself. Her reading - Hexagram 48, the Well, changing at line 3 to 29, Repeating Chasms:











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During our chat, I mentioned a previous episode where we discussed Hexagram 29 without changing lines.







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