Charlie asked 'How to navigate?' and cast Hexagram 27, Nourishment - or Jaws - changing at line 1 to 23, Stripping Away: changing to What followed was a strongly resonant conversation between his inner imagery and the imagery of the Yi - and also the ancient Chinese motif of being in the jaws of the tiger. The featured image above this post shows a detail from the handle of the Houmuwu vessel, where you can just see the human face between the tigers' open mouths. (The original photo is by Mlogic...
Jun 12, 2025•36 min•Season 1Ep. 56
How does the Yi help in an impossibly painful situation? It's hard to describe - deep recognition, being recognised, a sense of reconnection. Dominique's reading for this episode: "What is the lesson that I must learn through the pain of losing my marriage and our future?" And Yi's answer: Dispersing - Hexagram 59, with no changing lines. It's a beautiful response - I hope you enjoy listening Transcript, for Change Circle members
May 08, 2025•31 min•Season 1Ep. 55
Ludimila had graduated in psychology and opened her doors as a therapist a few years previously, but wondered whether she was being prompted to hold onto her secure, old work as a teacher and translator. So she asked, 'What should I focus on professionally?' and cast Hexagram 3, Sprouting, with no changing lines. It's a beautifully simple answer, and we thoroughly enjoyed exploring it together. Those explorations touched on the nuclear story, at which point I came up with a highly sophisticated ...
Apr 10, 2025•39 min•Season 1Ep. 54
That was Nathaniel's question for this podcast episode. Here's the reading he cast - changing to - Hexagram 26, Great Tending, changing at line 1 to Hexagram 18, Corruption. As you might imagine, the moving line gave us pause for thought! Nathaniel mentioned a previous episode, the one about Family Constellations work, that also featured Hexagram 18, and also Benebell Wen's interesting new translation; I mentioned Margaret Pearson's. (If you'd like to share a reading of your own on the podcast, ...
Mar 13, 2025•45 min•Season 1Ep. 53
A lovely conversation with Roslyn, about starting an online class to teach Daoist and complementary practices to women - about trepidation and confidence, pacing and patience, foxes and drunkenness, elephants and armies... Her reading was Hexagram 64, Not Yet Across, changing at lines 2 and 6 to 16, Enthusiasm: changing to Links I mention in the audio: to share a reading on the podcast: onlineClarity.co.uk/share. to join Change Circle (where membership also includes private readings): onlineClar...
Feb 13, 2025•40 min•Season 1Ep. 52
This episode features a reading for the year ahead. Kalimah's question: "Please comment on the year ahead. What I can expect? And also, how best to work with the energies within and around me?" Yi answered with Hexagram 23, Stripping Away, changing at lines 1, 4, 5 and 6 to 17, Following: changing to The meanings of the two hexagrams turned out to blend and harmonise in a very clear, satisfying way. Kalimah's shared a reading on the podcast once before, a year ago, so we took a moment to review ...
Jan 09, 2025•37 min•Season 1Ep. 51
Here's a gentle exploration of Hexagram 22, Beauty, in which we work our way round to understanding! Kim asked 'What's happening?' - looking for a picture of the greater pattern of her life. I think Yi handed her the paintbrush...
Dec 12, 2024•43 min•Season 1Ep. 50
This month's podcast features one of those readings where Yi really takes your breath away: 'How beneficial would it be for me to join the next course on family constellations?' Yi's response: Hexagram 18, Corruption, changing at lines 2, 3, 4 and 6 to 16, Enthusiasm. changing to Lux (as Lagartija) had originally posted this reading to the I Ching Community, so you can read the background there. If you'd like to share a reading of your own on the podcast - it's free - you're very welcome to book...
Nov 14, 2024•39 min•Season 1Ep. 49
As you might have guessed from the title of this episode, it's about a reading with Hexagram 22, Beauty, changing at line 1 to 52, Stilling: changing to It was all about becoming imperfectly visible - which the reading's owner has just begun to do on her Youtube channel... https://livingchange.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/episode48.mp3
Oct 10, 2024•47 min•Season 1Ep. 48
An annual reading, this time: the first thing Maria does on her birthday is to sit down and ask to be shown a reading for the coming year. Here's hers for 2023-24: Hexagram 36, Brightness Hiding, with no changing lines. Since this was an unchanging reading, we had the time and space to explore some of the hexagram's 'relations': its inverse and contrast, 35, Advancing - and its complement or opposite - the hexagram where every line is different - 6, Arguing: And not least, its hidden core, the n...
Sep 12, 2024•29 min•Season 1Ep. 47
In this episode, Katarina and I discuss her reading about moving to a new part of the country - Hexagram 7, the Army, changing at line 2 to 2, Earth: changing to As we talk about her plans, you can hear the qualities of the hexagrams - that meeting of organised focus with openness to guidance that's found in the moving line, where the general must stay on the alert for new orders... 'Positioned in the centre of the army.Good fortune, no mistake.The king issues a mandate three times.' If you'd li...
Aug 08, 2024•40 min•Season 1Ep. 46
A reading where we already knew the outcome - which really gives us a chance to learn from it! The reading's about a family argument, and pausing to find a new way to respond, and the advice was Hexagram 5, Waiting, changing at lines 2 and 3 to 3, Sprouting: changing to I hope you enjoy this one - and to benefit from the I Ching Community's shared hindsight, do join WikiWing!
Jul 11, 2024•37 min•Season 1Ep. 45
Episode 44 of the I Ching with Clarity podcast is about an artist getting started with showing her art, one step at a time - Hexagram 46, Pushing Upward, changing to the Repeating Chasms of Hexagram 29, which made their presence felt as an emotional background. changing to I hope you enjoy this one! (There's a last-minute update right at the end.) If you'd like to discuss a reading of your own on the podcast, you can book a slot here.
Jun 13, 2024•Season 1Ep. 46
A new listener's reading for this podcast episode: 'What to expect in this relationship?' And Yi's answer - changing to Hexagram 41, Decreasing, changing to 26, Great Tending (or Taming or Nurturing...), with changing line 3: 'Three people walking,Hence decreased by one person.One person walking,Hence gains a friend.' Hexagram 41, line 3 Who are the people walking, and what could this be about? (If you'd like some more listening/reading, here's an earlier episode that also started with Hexagram ...
May 09, 2024•34 min•Season 1Ep. 43
Question: "What advice can be offered for more effectively providing meditative peace and healing through playing Shakuhachi flute music?" Answer: Great Vigour in Flow. changing to 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...
Apr 11, 2024•35 min•Season 1Ep. 42
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: changing to 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 n...
Mar 14, 2024•40 min•Season 1Ep. 41
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: changing to
Feb 08, 2024•37 min•Season 1Ep. 40
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: changing to Not an easy one to hear...
Jan 11, 2024•36 min•Season 1Ep. 39
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: changing to I quoted from LiSe Heyboer's page on Hexagram 57 during this one (because I love it). You can read the whole thing here.
Dec 14, 2023•29 min•Season 1Ep. 38
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: changing to During our chat, I mentioned a previous episode where we discussed Hexagram 29 without changing lines. If you'd like to share a reading of your own on a future episode, you're very welcome to click here and book you...
Nov 09, 2023•33 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Episode 36 of the I Ching with Clarity podcast - a reading of my own, received in a way that might be new to you. I was asking for guidance in a new situation, and the response was Hexagram 27, Nourishing, changing to 54, the Marrying Maiden. (The completely positive experience I had as 'marrying maiden' was somewhat unexpected, too.) changing to
Oct 12, 2023•26 min•Season 1Ep. 36
A podcast reading with two radically contrasting hexagrams: 23, Stripping Away, changing to 42, Increasing: changing to Maria's question: 'How should I lead my spiritual life to know the truth?' In this reading, she and Yi trace a path through what seems like an impossible situation. Links I mention in this episode: the Yijing Foundations Class (if you're interested, and not already on the notification list, please put your name down!) the booking page for podcast chats (remember these are free ...
Sep 14, 2023•40 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Adeola shared a remarkable question and reading for this episode of the I Ching with Clarity podcast: "How is this travelling life shaping my character? (what kind of person am I becoming?)" Yi's response: Hexagram 14, Great Possession, changing to 53, Gradual Progress: changing to I hope you enjoy this one! Things we mention... Wild Geese by Mary Oliver WikiWing, the I Ching Community's collaborative, experience-based I Ching ...and trees, as they help to explain the reading. Here are some I me...
Aug 10, 2023•46 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Episode 33 of the I Ching with Clarity podcast features a listener's reading about moving to a new country. How best to make a positive transition to this new place, wherever it may be? The Oracle answered with Hexagram 16, Enthusiasm, changing at line 2 to Hexagram 40, Release: changing to This is actually the same reading we had in a previous episode last December, when I asked about the characteristics of a good question. I'm hoping it will still be interesting to see how different aspects of...
Jul 13, 2023•43 min
'Where to go?' was Lilian's reading for this episode of the podcast; Yi answered with Hexagram 47, Confining, changing at lines 2 and 4 to 8, Seeking Union - changing to - which is a lovely example of Yi answering the person even when I couldn't quite see how it could answer the question. I hope you enjoy listening - and if you'd like to share a reading of your own on the podcast, you can book that here.
Jun 08, 2023•37 min•Season 1Ep. 32
In this episode, Katie - a psychotherapist in training - asks, "What do I most need to know right now?" Behind this question lies a worry that she ought to be doing more, or achieving faster or maybe starting a side business: she was wondering, she said, whether she ought to be active or passive. Yi responded with Hexagram 61, Inner Truth, changing at lines 3 and 6 to Hexagram 5, Waiting: changing to Yi, I think, took the whole idea of being active and making things happen and turned it neatly o...
May 11, 2023•34 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Here's the 30th episode of the I Ching with Clarity podcast - a short one, this time, with a reading of my own. I asked for an auspice or advice for joining a new orchestra, and received Hexagram 38, Opposing, changing at lines 2 and 4 to 27, Nourishment: changing to Here are some reflections on how this one worked out, and the portrait painted by those two lines. I have some space on my calendar to discuss a listener's reading, so if you'd like to have a free reading and share it on the podcast...
Apr 13, 2023•18 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Here's a new episode of the I Ching with Clarity podcast for you, with a listener's reading about a relationship problem that a lot of people will be able to relate to. Danielle's reading was Hexagram 41, Decreasing, changing to 42, Increasing: changing to Seven minutes or so into the episode, I pause to talk about change patterns - which in this reading are hexagrams 29 and 30 - and You can read a quick introduction to change patterns here, and there's also a full course about them in the Chang...
Mar 11, 2023•44 min•Season 1Ep. 29
In this podcast episode, Elisabeth asks Yi, 'What approach or attitude should I adopt to have the best chance of serving other people through my writing?' Yi answers with Hexagram 61, Inner Truth, changing at lines 1, 4 and 6 to Hexagram 47, Confining - very apt hexagrams, as the writing project she's asking about is her memoir... changing to If you'd like to talk through your reading with me on the podcast - it's free, as a thank-you for letting me use the recording - you can book your slot her...
Feb 09, 2023•41 min
In this 27th episode of the I Ching with Clarity podcast, Anita shares a reading about trusting her new relationship. She received Hexagram 30, Clarity, with no changing lines - the hexagram made by doubling the trigram li, fire and light: 'Unchangingness' can colour a hexagram's meaning in interesting ways - in our conversation, I mentioned this I Ching Community thread about Hexagram 30 unchanging. For comparison... back in episode 14, Sasha and I talked about another relationship reading: Hex...
Jan 12, 2023•36 min•Season 1Ep. 27
