Mimi Young 2026-01-26 Mimi Young 2026-01-26

Common Questions and Answers about the I Ching

How is the I Ching different from Tarot, astrology, or other oracles?

The I Ching is not primarily symbolic or intuitive. It is a structural oracle that maps how change actually unfolds. Rather than centering personal story or archetype, it describes the configuration of a situation and what that configuration tends to produce if it continues. This can be disorienting at first, because it pulls us out of the narrator’s seat and into a logic closer to mathematics and natural law. Like patterns found in weather, crystals, or cells, the I Ching works through binary relationships and line structures that exist independent of an over-emphasis of needing spirituality to make us “feel good”. Instead, it helps us understand.

Is it appropriate to study the I Ching as a non-Chinese person?

You do not need to be of Chinese ancestry to participate in the I Ching series. The I Ching is a classical text and living system that has traveled across cultures because it speaks to universal patterns of change and decision-making. What matters is how it is studied and from whom. As someone of Chinese heritage, I am explicitly inviting you into this work. This series is taught within a culturally grounded, lineage-aware framework that honours the I Ching’s origins rather than abstracting or diluting them. Participation is not about ancestry, but about respect, responsibility, and relational learning. This series welcomes those who engage with care, rigour, and integrity.

Do eclipses affect us spiritually and creatively? And other post eclipse affects

I yearn to learn the language of rain, how it pours out itself, and joins other bodies of water, how it then evaporates, and then pours down again. I am shown that through rain, time is always cyclical, but never uniform. The swelling and releasing of the clouds are different every time, sometimes sudden and sometimes gradual, and how they are distinct from each other. How sideways rain is rain being defiant and unrelenting. Spring thunderstorms are so enthusiastic. Summer mists tease and smell so good. Fall showers are heavy and thick. Winter’s heaviness, rivers on dry land, in cities, and when it cools right down, right down to zero, how they crystalize and turn to snow. How snow is a different kind of rain, one that rocks and hushes the land beneath. Snow as comfort, snow as delight, and sometimes, snow as treachery.