The 3,000-year-old text of the I Ching - The Book of Changes - is brimming with images: dragons, horses, wild geese, cauldrons, ministers, kings, marrying maidens appear in dream-like clusters, leaving anyone who seeks wisdom and guidance from this remarkable book in our time wondering how to find meaning in the text.

Wonderfully, the sixty-four “chapters” or hexagrams are composed of images that are familiar to us in the living world around us - thunder and wind, wetlands and mountains, fire and water, earth and sky.

In fact, these very phenomena are the basic components of which the 64 hexagrams or “chapters” of the I Ching are composed: the Eight Trigrams. This presentation explores how the images gathered in each trigram offers pathways into the deep wisdom of Book of Changes.

For this class on the I Ching, Laura draws on her lifelong study of symbols, myth, and vision to open a dialogue between ancient wisdom and contemporary practice - guiding students to approach the oracle as both a spiritual and creative companion.