2012: The Storm Before The Calm
The Autumnal Equinox arrives, accompanied by fog and mist and rain and clouds of every shade of gray. The world’s qi shifts from boundless movement toward boundless stillness. We leave behind the...
View ArticleA 2012 Training Manual
The Beginning Times There are two overarching lessons of the I Ching. The first is this: Every Ending Begets A New Beginning. Change is not conceived as an endless string of cause-and-effect events...
View Article2012: The Beginning Times
Across the imaginary distance of culture and borders, I honor your contribution to the Beginning Times. ~ A dying oak tree, its trunk split and branches breaking, does not in any way resemble an acorn....
View ArticleThe 2012 Metamorphosis Meme Oracle
What kind of Ending will produce the best Beginning for the Coming 2012 Age? This is the question addressed in a group divination at a three-day workshop on The Toltec I Ching in Southern Oregon,...
View Article2012 Spring Equinox Oracle
The rains have returned to the Pacific Northwest, the morning mists float above the town below. The dense air dampens sound—and light. They are gray sounds that climb the hill to my little hermitage,...
View ArticleSummer Solstice 2012 Oracle
I am in Ithaca, New York, analyzing the Oracle’s answer to the charge I placed before it several hours ago. It is the evening of the Summer Solstice, 2012, and the Mayan Calendar will turn over for...
View Article2012 Oracle: Autumnal Equinox Divination
The migration has begun. In the outer realm, the over-wintering birds are arriving: the Northern Shoveler, the American Wigeon and Coot, the Wilson’s Snipe, The Long-Billed Dowitcher, the Greater...
View Article2012 Winter Solstice Oracle: The Age Of Light
An alligator barks at something in the night. Limpkins call eerily in the bayou out beyond the mosquito screening. A pale green luna moth flutters at the window light. I’ve travelled to the...
View ArticleThe Mandate of Heaven II
The Toltec I Ching is the first completely new version of the I Ching in modern times. Such was not my intention when I stepped onto this path some 45 years ago. As dedicated to the classic King Wen...
View ArticleAddendum to I Ching Mathematics
The material below details the mechanism by which binary calculations are made using only the hexagram figures. This information supplements the other mechanisms illustrated in I Ching Mathematics,...
View ArticleExcerpt: I Ching Mathematics for the King Wen Version
The following is from Chapter Two of I Ching Mathematics for the King Wen Version. ~ Despite the efficacy and elegance of the traditional model of interpretation, much of the efforts of advanced...
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