The destinies of men are subject to immutable laws that must fulfill themselves. But man has it in his power to shape his fate, according as his behavior exposes him to the influence of benevolent or of destructive forces.

ThoughtsAll writing
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The book is a field of relations, not a list of answers.

Every hexagram sits among eight or ten others — by trigram, by opposite, by shared theme. Each chapter page draws its own neighbourhood, so one reading carries you to the next.

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The Wilhelm / Baynes I Ching, Bollingen Series XIX, Princeton University Press.
The edition every page here is built on.
Yarrow in flower against a pale wash of cloud and distant mountain.
Cast

Ask once, slowly.

Forty-nine stalks, divided and counted away four at a time, six times over. The count takes as long as it takes — that is the part that does the work.

Cast the lines