The Book of Changes: A Clear-Eyed Guide for Modern Readers

Many people who teach the Yi Studies either pepper their explanations with jargon, making them as incomprehensible as a heavenly text, or try to sound profound while saying nothing at all.

They turn the Yi Studies into mysticism. I bring them down to earth.

There is no mumbo jumbo or pompous lecturing here.

What I do is translate the finest wisdom from 3,000 years ago into answers about life that modern readers can understand and put to use right away.

Are you stuck at work, wondering why you get nowhere no matter how hard you try?

Have you been hurt in love, wondering why you keep wasting yourself on the wrong people?

Do you have real abilities, yet keep getting overlooked, manipulated, or held back?

The Yi Studies addressed these questions long ago. No one has just explained them in a way you can understand.

The Qian hexagram shows how ordinary people can rise to the top step by step.

The Kun hexagram shows how the disadvantaged can quietly turn the tables.

The Zhun hexagram offers the most sophisticated way to cut your losses in a chaotic situation.

The Meng hexagram helps you see through ignorance and understand the limits of human nature.

The Xu hexagram shows why the strong know how to wait for the right moment.

Others teach you hexagram symbols. I talk about real life.

Others make you memorize classical texts. I help you understand the underlying rules of work, relationships, human nature, and fate.

Others tell you to revere the classics. I show you how to put them to work for you.

This is no ordinary guide to the Yi Studies.

It turns the sixty-four hexagrams into a modern guide to navigating life.

What you are reading is not an ancient book.

It is a collection of answers you should have known long ago, but no one ever told you.