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I Ching Confession

Adele Aldridge — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:49:39 +0000

I constantly complain to myself about how long it has been taking me to complete work called, I Ching Meditations.

The reason it is taking me so long is because not only is this a huge task to make seven images and words for sixty-four hexagrams, I have started from the beginning several times as my medium changed over the years. I began this work before there was such a thing as a personal computer and Internet. My original I Ching inspired images were drawings, etching and paintings. I am also frequently side tracked with what I feel are other seductive tasks such as, The SketchBook Project sponsored by The Brooklyn Art Library.

My confession is that I have a new addition to my I Ching obsession.

All my illustrations that are seen here for I Ching Meditations were created on a computer with digital programs. I love making images using computer technology and my mantra is that the Internet is the greatest invention since the discovery of fire. Creating in this way is fun and rewarding and a very different experience from using any tactile medium. Every once in a while I am over come with a fit of wanting to use real paint. The feeling is physical, sort of like when I am very thirsty and need a drink of water.

Recently I suddenly felt that nagging urge to use the hands-on medium of paint again. There wasn’t any particular image I wanted to paint. I just wanted to “play” and enjoy the experience. I thought of the book Henry Miller wrote after he left Paris and was living in California, called, “To Paint is to Love Again.” That’s a good way to describe it.

In order not to get side-tracked from my work on I Ching Meditations I decided to paint something simple and fairly small while staying connected to the I Ching. I began by using the Chinese glyph for hexagram one, as the basic starting point for an abstract design. I enjoyed the process so much I am compelled to complete all sixty-four glyph paintings and will gradually scan and post them here. The originals are each nine by twelve inches, painted with acrylics. I have had to make two promises to myself for this paint series. I limit the time I spend each day working on these paintings and do it as a treat, like having desert. I often work on them while I watch my two favorite television shows, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, combining two pleasures at once. The second promise to myself is that I will not start over on any painting until I finish all sixty-four.

The act of making these glyph paintings may be like taking vitamins to keep my system in good health. They become a meditation themselves as I focus on shapes of the Chinese calligraphy that signifies the meaning of the hexagrams. I think of them like the manuscript illuminations from those early days of books when works were hand painted with elaborate initials.

I begin here with the glyph painting for hexagram one, The Creative.

I recently posted the image and line one for Hexagram 14 in a Page. The rest of the lines and hexagrams to follow there.

I Ching Record Book

Adele Aldridge — Thu, 27 May 2010 18:31:12 +0000

I have created a Free PDF I Ching Record Book for keeping a record of I Ching questions and responses. You can find it in my Resource section of Special Places on the right.

The I Ching Record Book Includes:

A page for each of the 64 hexagrams to record your I Ching responses from the questions asked. By being able to print out pages as you need them you can easily add as many for the same hexagram as is necessary.
Work Sheet for I Ching Questions.
Interactive color chart for identifying hexagrams.
Black and white chart for identifying hexagrams – not interactive.
I Ching circular chart that can also be ordered as a large poster.
Chart listing all hexagrams to check off the name and date of an I Ching response.
Black and white chart with Chinese characters.
Two I Ching font charts.
Suggestions for how to ask the I Ching a question.
Suggestions for questions you might ask.
Instructions for the coin method of asking a question.
Included, by permission, the appendix from Dr. Katya Walter’s e-book, Double Bubble Universe. This chapter shows an example of her experience asking the I Ching a question as well as another method of asking a question as an alternative to using either the coins or yarrow sticks.

I Ching Font – Hexagram Chinese Name

Adele Aldridge — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:29:10 +0000

My first I Ching font contains the lines for the 64 hexagrams, including the trigrams, bi-grams, single lines, and changing single lines which can be found HERE or in in my Resources link.

This new font contains the 64 hexagrams in Chinese glyph form. I included in the new I Ching font the single changing lines and bi-grams that are in the font with the hexagram lines. So if you have another I Ching font with the lines, and would just like these extras not included in any other I Ching font that I saw and you would like the Chinese glyphs as well, then this is a good font for you.

Click on the diagram to take you to the link where you can buy the font.

New I Ching Font

Adele Aldridge — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:21:10 +0000

I have created a new I Ching font that gives more transcribing options and characters than other fonts available. While it can be used for the traditional way of oracle notation with the 64 Hexagram lines and 8 trigrams as seen with this example of the trigrams, you can also use it for mathematical notation in string theory.

This font, unlike others, allows you to type polarized ratios and equations for:

Four kinds of single lines

a single yin line

a single yang line

a changing yin line

a changing yang line

Four kinds of bigrams

stable yin

stable yang

changing yin bigram

changing yang bigram

Also included are two glyphs for Yijing

This I Ching font can be used on any system and in any program that allows for text input.

You can order this font HERE or by clicking on the font map above.