I Ching with Clarity podcast – I Ching with Clarity

<p>Bill asked about his dating prospects, and received &#8211; of all things &#8211; the sixth line of Hexagram 24, Returning&#8230;</p> <div style="display: table; margin: 20px;"> <div style="float: left; width: 90px; height: 100px; background-image: url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/7at1.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at2.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at3.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at4.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at5.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/6at6.png'); background-position: top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 100% 100%;"></div> <div style="float: left; margin-left: 10px; vertical-align: middle; line-height: 100px;">changing to</div> <div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; width: 90px; height: 100px; background-image: url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/7at1.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at2.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at3.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at4.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at5.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/7at6.png'); background-position: top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 100% 100%;"></div> </div> <p>&#8230;which is exactly no-one&#8217;s favourite line. So how do you respond when Yi&#8217;s answer is all doom and gloom, and <em>really</em> not what you hoped to hear? You explore&#8230; so we did.</p> <p>Bill kindly interviewed me for his blog afterwards: <a href="https://www.billtarrant.com/my-blog/articles/the-oracle-works-and-its-always-a-mystery/#/">here&#8217;s his article</a>.</p>

<p>A listener&#8217;s reading for this month&#8217;s podcast: Ann asked, </p> <p>&#8216;How do I integrate myself as an artist with everyday life?&#8217;</p> <p>And Yi answered with Hexagram 14, Great Possession, changing at lines 1 and 3 to 64, Not Yet Crossing.</p> <div style="display: table; margin: 20px;"> <div style="float: left; width: 90px; height: 100px; background-image: url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/9at1.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/7at2.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/9at3.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/7at4.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at5.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/7at6.png'); background-position: top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 100% 100%;"></div> <div style="float: left; margin-left: 10px; vertical-align: middle; line-height: 100px;">changing to</div> <div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; width: 90px; height: 100px; background-image: url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at1.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/7at2.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at3.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/7at4.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at5.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/7at6.png'); background-position: top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 100% 100%;"></div> </div> <p>(If you enjoy this, please share it!)</p>

<p>That&#8217;s something I asked Yi recently, and it answered with Hexagram 23, Stripping Away, changing at lines 1 and 6 to 24, Returning &#8211; </p> <div style="display: table; margin: 20px;"> <div style="float: left; width: 90px; height: 100px; background-image: url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/6at1.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at2.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at3.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at4.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at5.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/9at6.png'); background-position: top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 100% 100%;"></div> <div style="float: left; margin-left: 10px; vertical-align: middle; line-height: 100px;">changing to</div> <div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; width: 90px; height: 100px; background-image: url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/7at1.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at2.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at3.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at4.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at5.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at6.png'); background-position: top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 100% 100%;"></div> </div> <p>I think this is a lovely, fascinating, satisfying reading, so I&#8217;m sharing a few thoughts on it with you for this episode of the podcast. I hope you enjoy it! </p> <p>(If you&#8217;d like to have a free reading on the podcast, <a href="https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/i-ching-with-clarity-podcast/i-ching-chat-on-the-clarity-podcast/">you&#8217;re very welcome to book one here</a>.)</p> <p><em>An update…</em></p> <p>Just after publishing this episode, I was sorting through some foraged chestnuts when I found the one whose photograph you can see above. I didn&#8217;t roast it; I&#8217;m going to take it with me on my next foraging walk to the local woods and tuck it into the leaf litter.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.ichingappofchanges.com/app/index.html">Brian</a> asked, </p> <p>&#8220;Why am I compelled to leave my job and join Greenpeace?&#8221;</p> <p>and Yi responded with Hexagram 18, &#8216;Work on what has been spoiled&#8217; in the Wilhelm/Baynes translation he was consulting.</p> <p>This was in 1982: we’re revisiting the reading and learning from it, 43 years on. </p> <p>Things we mention&#8230;</p> <p>The &#8216;entangled pair&#8217; &#8211; both inverse and complementary &#8211; of hexagrams 17 and 18:</p> <div style="display: table; margin: 20px;"> <div style="float: left; width: 90px; height: 100px; background-image: url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/7at1.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at2.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at3.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/7at4.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/7at5.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at6.png'); background-position: top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 100% 100%;"></div> <div style="float: left; margin-left: 10px; vertical-align: middle; line-height: 100px;">paired with</div> <div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; width: 90px; height: 100px; background-image: url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at1.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/7at2.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/7at3.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at4.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at5.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/7at6.png'); background-position: top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 100% 100%;"></div> </div> <p>And the nuclear story of Hexagram 18, passing through hexagrams 28, 54 and 27, which you can build from all its component trigrams:</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><a href="https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/18strigrams.png"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="694" height="133" src="https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/18strigrams.png" alt="" class="wp-image-18797" style="width:537px;height:auto" srcset="https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/18strigrams.png 694w, https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/18strigrams-300x57.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px" /></a></figure> <p>And not least the I Ching Foundations Class &#8211; starting soon, see <a href="https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/c/yijing-foundations-class/">www.onlineClarity.co.uk/class</a> !</p>

<p>In this episode, Natalia is asking a wide-open question: where is she to go next? And Yi&#8217;s answer combines focus with openness: Hexagram 7, the Army, changing at line 2 to Hexagram 2, Earth:</p> <div style="display: table; margin: 20px;"> <div style="float: left; width: 90px; height: 100px; background-image: url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at1.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/9at2.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at3.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at4.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at5.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at6.png'); background-position: top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 100% 100%;"></div> <div style="float: left; margin-left: 10px; vertical-align: middle; line-height: 100px;">changing to</div> <div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; width: 90px; height: 100px; background-image: url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at1.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at2.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at3.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at4.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at5.png'), url('https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/images/gua/8at6.png'); background-position: top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 100% 100%;"></div> </div> <p>(You may notice something different at the beginning and end of this episode. The music is the same &#8211; the Allemande from Bach&#8217;s first suite for &#8216;cello &#8211; but since there&#8217;s some ambiguity about the public domain status of the recording I&#8217;ve been using in previous episodes, I&#8217;ve switched to a lovely, eloquent performance by Colin Carr, published by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and <a href="https://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/310845">available here in full</a> under <a href="https://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:Creative_Commons_Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs_3.0">this Creative Commons licence</a>.)</p>