Breakthroughs aren't always a good thing. Hexagram 43: Breakthrough of the I Ching is the image of a lake that has risen up to heaven, ready to break through in a cloudburst. To avoid this cloudburst, the hexagram warns us…

As we rapidly approach Sagittarius, the season with the least amount of light symbolically (and literally, here in the northern hemisphere) we have Hexagram 1: The Creative as our host for the next week. This hexagram is a doubling of…

There's something appropriate about Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet beginning on the day of Halloween. "Coming to meet" is about meeting a situation or person halfway, but not to the point of compromising our higher ideals or inner dignity. Wilhelm's…

"Preponderance of the Great" (Hexagram 28 of the I Ching) is an elegant way of saying the stress is at a breaking point. The current support systems are inadequate. Or, to use the nature imagery of this hexagram, the lake…

The image of a cauldron - Hexagram 50 - seems an appropriate one for kicking off Scorpio season. Only two of the 64 hexagrams represent a manmade object and The Cauldron is one of them (The Well is the other).…