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At the end of my second video (see my YiTube Channel) I invite viewers to send me readings that I can use in my videos to show how I interpret the answers of the Yijing. This is one of those readings. In this case I did not know the background of the question that was asked to the Yijing so I created one of my own. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dVWXYqmDUo

Atlanta: - Lecture 'Symbols of the I Ching: Their Origin and Today's Application', March 16 (http://www.jungatlanta.com/schedule-mesker.html) New York: - Lecture 'Reading the I Ching: working with the magical symbols from the Chinese Book of Changes', March 21, Catland Books NYC (https://www.catlandbooks.com/events-calendar/2019/3/21/reading-the-i-ching-working-with-the-magical-symbols-from-the-chinese-book-of-changes) - 2-day Yijing Workshop Intensive, March 23-24 (https://www.yjcn.nl/wp/2-day-yijing-workshop-intensive-new-york/ ) Chicago: - Yijing Workshop, March 29 (https://www.yjcn.nl/wp/yijing-workshop-chicago/ ) - Workshop 'Practical Application of the Book of Changes as a Tool for Diagnosis in Chinese Medicine', March 30 & 31 (https://www.yjcn.nl/wp/workshop-practical-application-of-the-book-of-changes-as-a-tool-for-diagnosis-in-chinese-medicine-chicago/ ) Looking forward to meet you!

It has been decided that there will be a future one. Hopefully next year :-)

I am sorry, I don't have the equipment to make a recording :-( . I find the workbook as it is not very useful for self study. So I am working an an expanded version that I hope to finish in about a year or so.

Word travels fast. I indeed do like Rick & Morty.

In that case: looking forward to meet you

Debunking some commonly accepted rules and assumptions. Audio is sometimes a bit out of sync but it is the thought that counts. https://youtu.be/eW8fMZq8I7I

For those interested in textual analysis: https://www.yjcn.nl/wp/hexagram-9-line-6/

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Continuing from this post and the relevant responses: I would not know how to input a character that is not in use any more, nor would I know if it has a phonetic. But you can find it in the sources that I researched back in 2008 and that I mention in my article: "What we do know is that is the name of a certain sacrifice (甲骨文字典, p. 995; 新編甲骨文字典, p. 528)." Most research on this character is summarized in 古文字诂林, Vol. 8, p. 53-57. I wrote the article in 2008 and maybe there are new developments that I am not yet aware of. I do however maintain that 易 is not composed of both the characters 日 and 月. The oldest forms do not show 日 but they do show 月 as a component.

Ah, but is (also) a stand-alone character, as can be seen on the oracle bones. So you are saying that 月 together with 彡 is used to signify 'change'? I can live with that. I believe that is also what I am saying in my article: " refers to an offering to the moon, or at least in the dark, to get the sun back. Yi 易 could have been a sacrifice to the ancestors or spirits (indicated by ) during the evening or in the night (indicated by ) to make sure that the sun is returning, that it is 'given' by the ancestors or spirits."

You can get all philosophical here but you can't ignore the fact that the character 易 (after all that is what you were talking about) was never made of 日 and 月. I give sources that substantiate that. There is nothing 'speculative' about that. See the examples in the 古文字诂林, Vol. 8. p 435-443 if you don't believe me. See attachment. 易 in Guwenzi Gulin.pdf

Read the rest of the article.

I beg to differ: http://www.itcn.nl/serendipity/archives/111-Working-with-Yi-a-change-for-the-better.html

Yes, but as far as I know these were not the targets of Confucius' rituals. Alas! My knowledge is also limited :-)

What do the rituals have to do with 'myths'? The Zhou rituals were linked to veneration of the ancestors. I don't think Confucius saw anything mythical in that.

I have attached Major's article so that the quote can be read in its entire context. Myth, Cosmology, and the Origins of Chinese Science - Major.pdf

Can you give me the page number? I can't find it. No. The Yizhuan is nothing more than a commentary on the hexagrams from Jing's Ba Gong perspective. It is in the text that the link with the trigrams is explicitly made, see here https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/京氏易傳 I have a book that contains other works attributed to Jing Fang but in neither of them I can find references to the Luoshu or Houtian Bagua.

Yes. The correlations appear to be different. See for instance section 11.2 strips 17– 18 (p. 103 in Stalk Divination) where Gen is given Wuxing Water. Maybe the earliest correlation is found in the Yizhuan 易傳 by Jing Fang 京方.

Bent Nielsen says, The earliest known textual evidence for a correlation of the phases and the trigrams occurs in the eleventh-century Yishu Gouyintu 《易數鉤隱圖》, Outlining the Secret Diagrams of the Numbers of the Changes, by Liu Mu: As to the five phases becoming numbers, water’s number is six, metal’s number is nine, fire’s number is seven, and wood’s number is eight. Water resides in Kan and produces Qian. Metal resides in Dui and produces Kun. Fire resides in Li and produces Xun. Wood resides in Zhen and produces Gen. [Kan, Dui, Li, and Zhen] already reside in the four corners and produce Qian, Kun, Gen, and Xun. Collectively, they make up the eight trigrams. 'Cycles and sequences of the eight trigrams', Journal of Chinese Philosophy 41:1-2 (March–June 2014) p. 134 Although this might be the earliest full description of the trigrams & Wuxing correlation, that doesn't mean that the correlation was not made earlier. In the Shifa manuscript dated around 350BC the Wuxing are already used with the trigrams. See C. A. Cook and Zhao Lu, Stalk Divination: A Newly Discovered Alternative to the I Ching.

New York: https://www.yjcn.nl/wp/2-day-yijing-workshop-intensive-new-york/ Atlanta: https://www.yjcn.nl/wp/2-day-yijing-workshop-intensive-atlanta/ For Atlanta there is also a Meetup group https://www.meetup.com/nl-NL/Atlanta-I-Ching-Meetup/ that will arrange 1 or 2 meetings in the two weeks that I am there. I hope to meet some of you, if it is not at the workshops then maybe otherwise.

It is interesting that you can answer for someone else.... But okay, so 'absolute male' is defined by feelings & sexual orientation? There is no physical component part of the definition?

It seems we have a different point of view on this

How can I answer that when I don't know what you mean by 'absolute male'?