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Essentials before you start
A Yijing journal
Cast a reading
A real translation
Yijing terms
Your question
Trigrams
Introduction and mini-history
Recognising trigrams
Trigrams in human terms
Seeing connections
Connecting with a hexagram
The Yijing text
Component trigrams
Dealing with doubts
Interpretation advice
Primary and relating hexagrams
The structure of your reading
First steps into a reading
Interlude: unchanging readings
An intuitive relationship
Moving lines (and their positions)
Moving lines as a story
Moving lines as layers
Moving lines (and steps of change)
Introducing Steps of Change
Some examples…
Interpreting multiple moving lines
Moving lines working together
A reading practice
A reading practice: opening
A reading practice: connecting
A reading practice: integrating
Introducing line pathways
What are they, and why bother?
Finding the lines of the pathway
What can they tell you?
Understanding the fan yao
What the fan yao shows
Examples
Using the fan yao in readings
Understanding the qian yao
Part of the Pair, the big picture
Telling stories
This, not that; not now
Using the qian yao in readings
The ‘hidden’ line
Introducing the hidden line
Examples
Now try this
Complementary pairs and an alternative route
Introducing the ‘bian yao’
The bian yao in readings
One more line?
Using the bian yao and its ‘alternative route’
Reading a whole line pathway
Example
Tips for interpreting the pathway
Why use more than one translation?
Pitfalls to avoid
The benefits
How to use multiple translations
Choose your books with care
Strategies for using your books
Example texts
Hexagram 44
15, line 5
22, line 1
22, line 3
Example readings
47.2.4 to 8
42.4 to 25
The bucket: question and casting
Finding the question
Yijing Foundations Questions video
Rephrasing
Big questions
Setting your own ground rules
Who casts the reading?
Reading modality
Practising in pairs: how it works
✏ Practice
Rope & bucket: introducing the reading
Communicating a hexagram’s ‘essence’
The framework of primary and relating hexagrams
Yijing Foundations: primary and relating hexagram
Unchanging readings: when less is more
Yijing Foundations: unchanging hexagrams
Sharing images and stories
Five examples of sharing the image or story
‘Connecting with Imagery’ workshop recording
✏ Practice
Bucket & rope: delivering the reading
Changing lines
Yijing Foundations: moving lines
Yeekery, and ‘showing your workings’
✏ Practice
More for the bucket: integrating
Summarising the reading
Following up
✏ Practice
Problems?
Short of time?
What if the querent disagrees?
What if you’re stuck?
✏ Practice
Well-Keeper’s Manual
Reading for friends and family?
Ground rules and resourcefulness
Your unique Yijing lexicon
✏ Practice
Essentials before you start
Essentials before you start: a Yijing journal
Cast a reading
A real translation
Yijing terms
Optional: multiple translations
Your question: video and downloads
Trigrams
Introduction and mini-history
Recognising trigrams
Trigrams in human terms
Seeing connections
Connecting with a hexagram
The Yijing text
Component trigrams
Dealing with doubts
Interpretation advice
Primary and relating hexagrams
The structure of your reading
First steps into a reading
Interlude: unchanging readings
An intuitive relationship
Moving lines (and their positions)
Moving lines as a story
Moving lines as layers
Moving lines (and steps of change)
Introducing Steps of Change
Some examples…
Interpreting multiple moving lines
Moving lines working together
A reading practice
A reading practice: opening
A reading practice: connecting
A reading practice: integrating