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I Ching for Beginners: A Modern Interpretation of the Ancient Oracle (For Beginners (Llewellyn's)) |  | Author: Mark McElroy
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
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Edition: 1st. Ed
Pages: 312
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0738707449
Dewey Decimal Number: 133.33
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Publication Date: November 1, 2005
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Offering guidance to emperors, generals, and kings for millennia, the I Ching remains a powerful oracle today. However, many seekers find its symbolism and outdated metaphors a challenge to interpret. Mark McElroy strips away obscure references and reverently recasts the I Ching's ancient ideas into everyday terms, making it fast and easy to apply its enduring wisdom to contemporary life.
Neither a translation nor a paraphrased interpretation, I Ching for Beginners helps readers consult this remarkable Chinese classic with confidence. For each of the I Ching's sixty-four passages, McElroy provides a summary, study questions, and keywords, and explains how the message relates to relationships, love, work, and projects. Also included are directions for creating and interpreting hexagrams.
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Best of the Fast, Modern Interpretations. July 11, 2010
Brahman
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I own many translations of the I Ching. Of all of them, I would have to say that this book represents the best interpretation of the oracle into modern English, followed closely by the translations by Mondo Sector and Sam Reifler's work as well as the exhaustive "The Laws of Change" by Jack M. Balkin. Everything from the names of the individual "gua" to the judgements and lines are re-interpreted into modern English in this book, so don't expect to win any arguments with someone who owns the Legge edition or the Wilhelm/Baynes text. Still, this book is direct, to the point and impressively accurate in capturing the spirit of the individual hexagrams if what you're trying to do is understand how the hexagrams relate to modern life. Cross referenced with "The I Ching Handbook" by Mondo Sector, you can see how each individual moving line leads to a transitional hexagram for a complete analysis of whatever hexagram you come up with and its moving lines. Buy it! Hide the title with a book jacket if you want to impress people, but buy it and you will not regret the purchase.
A friend's advice March 2, 2010
Caroline Zeiler (Brüssel)
My life is a bit of a roller coaster these days... and this book is exactly what I need. It is a great tool to help understand the message that is addressed to me. Comforting words of a friend that provide a gentle guidance.
Great for practical uses! July 7, 2008
Seven Kitties (Blue Point, NY USA)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
If you're looking for a book that discusses the I Ching as a philosophy or metaphysics or meditation tool, this book isn't what you're looking for. However, if you want an I Ching that can give insight and solutions into your life, this book is nothing short of spooky. I made a quick and cheap set of index cards as he describes (if I flipped coins around here, my cats'd make sure I spent all day looking for coins) and for the first month that I owned this book I did a reading every morning.
Unlike Tarot, where sometimes you and a deck have to take some time getting to know each other (tarot people know what I mean), this worked right off the page from day one. He offers wonderful blurbs on each of the trigrams, and I was so impressed at how spot on they were at predicting what I needed to look out for that day (my general question) that I started analyzing the book for 'cheats'. You know, generic stuff that could fit anybody "you have a friend named Joe? John?" "You feel as if no one understands you?" That sort of ultrageneric stuff that the Rube desperately clings onto. Nope. Not here. The trigrams are widely different in meaning, with very little overlap.
If you want a practical I Ching tool, and something that you will turn to day after day with confidence, THIS is the book to get.
The ideal book for everyone. September 1, 2007
Chris Sellick (South Australia,Australia)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I wanted to buy a book on I-Ching that was easy to read and understand even though I've been learning for 2 years now.This book is ideal.The author writes in simple terms that will appeal to everyone not just beginners.No technical explanations.It covers advice on relationships,work matters and more.I found this book to be unusual compared to other I-Ching books because of its simple explanations and it is written in simple English.For the price alone this book is great value.For what this book has to offer its even better value.Its a great book to start with even if you purchase another beginners book with it.
Great value book suitable for anyone interested in I-Ching.
 Your own private mentor March 9, 2006
Patrick Swinkels (Belgium)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
First of all, you should read the excellent review posted by Janet Boyer. I've got not much to add to this.
I consider this book (and Mark's Bright Idea Deck) as my private mentor/coach. It does not tell me what to do, but confronts me with a set of questions and options to consider. Over time I have learned the importance of asking the right question; sometimes an answer is not even needed, the question alone makes the problem disappear.
Why 4 stars and not 5? Well, we all got spoiled by Mark's use of examples on how to use for instance his bright idea deck.
Well, in this I Ching book, no "50 ways to use the I Ching", no "What would the trigrams do", no different "spreads".
I'm sure I have enough information to construct these on my own, but I would love some practical examples, some "spreads" using more than one or two hexagrams etc.
Anyway, I recommend this book to everyone!
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