Hilary Barrett's wonderful website www.onlineClarity.co.uk hosts a lively and intelligent discussion forum, as well as a directory of practitioners and a resource list of books. You can also sign up for her Introductory I Ching Course there, which does exactly what it says on the tin, including:

- a historical introduction and an overview of some of the ways

the oracle is used;

-a very useful chapter on how to identify a good translation;

-a clear explanation of what the hexagrams and changing lines are;

-how to consult the oracle.

Highly recommended.

 

Andreas Schöter’s excellent website Yi Jing Algebra (www.yijing.co.uk) explores a “contemporary, logical and structural perspective” on the I Ching.  It is scholarly but accessible, and contains links to several of Andreas' papers which will be of interest to any serious student of the I Ching.  He has also developed a number of software tools that can be downloaded from his website. 

 

My favourite astrologer, Eric Francis, maintains a sumptuous website www.planetwaves.net, full of wisdom in many arenas, including not only horoscopes but also up-to-date political and social commentary.  It is always worth a visit, and a subscription is definitely value for money.

 

LiSe Heyboer's website 'Book of the Sun and Moon' www.anton-heyboer.org/i_ching/yi_index.html has her own original translation and perspective on the I Ching. Sometimes very different from mine; always fresh and full of LiSe's own considerable wisdom.

 

Adele Aldridge's website, www.adeleart.com is a cornucopia of delights. As well as her poetic/pictorial meditations on the I Ching, check out 'Once I Was a Square' and 'notpoems'.

 

Denis Mair's website 'Oyster Bay Journals' www.appositive.net/oysterbay/index.html has an extensive I Ching section of thoughtful essays. The rest of the site is cool too.

 

Tom Christensen's site www.rightreading.com has a section on the I Ching, and a whole lot else besides. Among this man's myriad achievements is that he has published one of my heroes, Gary Snyder. It's a rambling eclectic website which includes his 'rendering' of the I Ching.

 

Yijing Dao (www.biroco.com/yijing/index.htm) is a subsection of Joel Biroco's website. It is, if I am not mistaken, the work of S J Marshall, whose book "The Mandate of Heaven" achieves the distinction of being both rigorous in its scholarship and a real page-turner. The Yijing Dao site is a treasure trove of reliable information about the I Ching. (But - true confessions - I tend to spend way too much time wandering about Joel Biroco's site. His journal makes me laugh, makes me cry. Nice paintings too.)

 

Finally, a shameless plug for my own I Ching Newsletter, which can be found at http://i-ching-news.blogspot.com.  Sign up on the Home Page of this site to be notified by email when a new page has been posted to the Newsletter.

 

LOCAL SUSSEX  and MISCELLANEOUS LINKS

 

Sarah Bristow (www.sarahbristow.com) is a painter, yoga teacher, and shiatsu practitioner, who works with the body-mind connection in a beautifully organic and gentle way.

 

Grace Annand runs the Pranavayoga Centre in Uckfield (www.pranavayogauckfield.co.uk), located in a beautiful oasthouse on a farm.  Great yoga classes and other courses from time to time.