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Often referred to as the Eranos edition, this revised and updated translation offers the most substantial advance in I Ching since Richard Wilhelm introduced the oracle to the West in the 1920s.
The I Ching is one of the oldest Chinese texts and the worlds oldest oracle. Accumulated from over 2,500 years of diviners, sages and shamans and born out of the oral tradition, the I Ching as we know it today is a collection of texts, imagery and advice, philosophy and poetry, divided into 64 chapters. There are 64 hexagrams, created from a collection of six lines, either broken or solid. In order to read from the book, you must cast a hexagram. The traditional method required yarrow sticks but nowadays is based on tossing three coins six times.
The Original I Ching Oracle or Book of Changes was inspired by Carl Gustav Jungs insights into the psyche and researched for more than 60 years through the Eranos Foundation of Switzerland. It presents the oracular core of the I Ching as a psychological tool: the symbols interact with our minds in the same way dream images do.

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Rudolf Ritsema was a devoted student of the I Ching since his first encounter with it in 1944. He was director of the prestigious Eranos Foundation for 30 years and after his retirement he published English, Italian and German translations of the I Ching. He passed away in 2006. The present definitive version of the Eranos I Ching is the distillation of his lifelong involvement with the book.

Shantena Augusto Sabbadini worked as a theoretical physicist at the University of Milan and at the University of California, where he contributed to the first identification of a black hole. Later he became interested in religion, philosophy and psychology, and in 1991 he joined the Eranos circle and became involved in the Eranos conferences as organizer and lecturer.

THE ORIGINAL

I CHING

ORACLE

OR

THE BOOK OF

CHANGES

BY
RUDOLF RITSEMA AND
SHANTENA AUGUSTO SABBADINI
THE ERANOS I CHING PROJECT

First published 2005 This revised edition first published in the UK and USA - photo 1

First published 2005.

This revised edition first published in the UK and USA 2018 by Watkins, an imprint of

Watkins Media Limited

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Text copyright Rudolf Ritsema and

Shantena Augusto Sabbadini 2005, 2018

Rudolf Ritsema and Shantena Augusto Sabbadini have asserted their right under the

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All rights reserved.

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ISBN: 978-1-78678-122-2

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Contents

LIST OF HEXAGRAMS
THE 64 HEXAGRAMS

ZHOUYI This book is the result of the lifelong study of the Yijing by my - photo 2
ZHOUYI This book is the result of the lifelong study of the Yijing by my - photo 3

ZHOUYI

This book is the result of the lifelong study of the Yijing by my coauthor, the late Rudolf Ritsema, as well as the meeting and merging of our sensibilities. While the text is essentially the same as in the original 2005 edition, I felt it was appropriate to endow it with a new Introduction, both to streamline the access to the practice of the oracle and to give adequate space to Rudolfs involvement with the Yijing and with the creation of the Eranos Round Table Sessions. It is a story well worth telling that Rudolfs self-effacing style kept from being included in the previous Introduction. A special thank-you goes to my wife, Cruz Maas Pealver, for substantially contributing to the Introduction of this new edition of The Original I Ching Oracle.

Part One

Introduction

1 | The Book of Yi

THE NAME OF THE BOOK

The title of this book, Yijing, as it is written in contemporary pinyin romanization, can be translated as Book of Changes or Classic of Changes. An older form of the title is Zhouyi, Changes of the Zhou, from the name of the Zhou dynasty (1122256 BCE), under which it came into being. Jing simply means classic: its canonization as a classic took place under the Han dynasty (206 BCE 220 CE), in the framework of the great unification of Chinese culture undertaken by the empire. Since then, the Yijing has been regarded as the Classic of Classics: for 2,000 years it has been to the Chinese the ultimate map of heaven and earth.

The essential word in the books name is yi, which means, amongst other things, change. Change, as we all know, is the only permanence: existence is constant change, from the regular alternance of day and night, the sequence of the seasons, the growth and decay of all living forms. But the yi the title of the book points to encompasses also another type of change, the unpredictable change that sometimes irrupts into our life, the painful confrontation with our human limitations, stressful situations in which the usual bearings no longer suffice for orientation. The Book of Yi comes to our rescue in such situations. It was born in the first millennium BCE as a divination manual, i.e. as a practical tool to help people ride the waves of change and harness their energy: a tool to deal with yi, with critical times of change. In many ancient cultures these times were seen as intrusions of the divine, of gods and spirits, into human life, and a proper interrogation of these higher powers, engaging them in a dialogue, was considered essential in order to overcome the crisis. The Yijing was born and kept being used throughout its long history as one such method of divination, as an oracle.

Divination is mostly associated in peoples minds with predicting the future. That is not the approach to divination we propose in this book. We do not view the Yi as a tool to predict the future, because we believe the future is unpredictableand depends, among many other factors, on the course of action we choose. We suggest to use the Yi as a mirror of the present, as a tool for introspection, a tool to assess the appropriateness of a specific course of action in a given situation, a tool to open a dialogue with our own deeper wisdom and align our actions with the dao.

Such dialogue with our inner wisdom is especially useful at times of crisis. The Chinese term for crisis consists of two characters, wei and ji. Wei means danger, and ji means, among other things, moment and chance. So a crisis is a dangerous moment, but also a chance, an opportunity. It is an opportunity for growth, first of all: such times can bring profound transformationbut can be painful, disconcerting and full of anxiety.

Modern chaos theory pays particular attention to these murky transitions, by which forms transmute into each other. In fact, life itself arises at the boundary between order and chaos: it requires both, it is a daughter of both. On the side of perfect order there is no movement: there is only inertia, symmetry, thermo -dynamic equilibrium. Nothing very interesting can happen there: everything is too predictable. But the side of total disorder is not very interesting either: forms appear and disappear too quickly, there is a total lack of symmetry, everything is too unpredictable. It is on the edge between order and chaos that the subtle dance of life takes place: here the real complexity arises, here forms bend and loop and transmute and evolve.

The Yijing is the ancient Chinese map of this dance of order and chaos. It is based on two principles, yin and yang, that are closely related to the ideas of structure and action, form and energy. Pure yin is structure, with no movement; pure yang is chaotic creation and destruction, no form. But the interplay of yin and yang gives birth to the myriad beings, the endless variety of life and the marvelous complexity of the world. In the Yijing this dance is encoded in 64 hexagrams, figures composed of six opened (yin) or whole (yang) lines, diagrams of different combinations of the two basic principles.

YIN AND YANG

Yin and yang are the fundamental polarity of this system. These two basic categories of Chinese thought cannot be adequately translated in Western terms. In order to understand them correctly, we must keep in mind that they represent aspects of processes and not qualities of things. Nothing is intrinsically

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