Yijing Research · Harmen Mesker
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Yijing Research
Harmen Mesker
Historical sources · Translation · Research
Nourishing Destiny Academy
Johannes Bloemsma
Practical application · Teaching · Guidance
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Divination and practice · 15 Mar 2025
Tips to open up your reading (tips, not rules)
Is using the Yijing difficult? Are the answers that it gives you complex? The answer to both questions is a sound ‘no’. And yet discussion boards are flooded with Yi castings of…
Read article →Translation Notes · 10 May 2014
Hexagram 05, line 3
需于泥致寇至. Ni 泥: mud. The Shanghai Museum MS has ni 坭 which is a known variant of 泥. The character also means ‘to be obstructed, to be held up’, like being stuck in the mud. Zhi 致:…
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Translation Notes · 22 Nov 2015
Hexagram 08, line 1
有孚比之.無咎.有孚盈缶.終來有它.吉. About you fu 有孚 see here. Bi 比: ‘assist, support’, ‘join (to support)’, to form a bond to reach a common goal, if necessary in a secondary position, to put yourself 2nd…
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Harmen Mesker
Studying the Yijing since 1982, Harmen works with the history and language of the Zhouyi, early Chinese sources and traditional methods of divination. His research and teaching bring textual study and practical experience together.
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