Sourced from common roots of ancient Chinese (I Ching) and pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican tradition, this easy-to-use new resource distils and updates ancient, archetypal lessons for motivation, hope, and practical guidance in modern life-situations. Symbolic indigenous images and lucid text energise, harmonise, and integrate the inquirer's feminine and masculine natures -- providing an accessible, refreshing alternative to the masculine/aristocratic biases of previous I Chings. The new sequence of hexagrams is specifically designed to help individuals cultivate wise inner responses to circumstances beyond their control. For readers of Toltec Wisdom that have responded so enthusiastically to books like The Four Agreements and to the idea of spirit warriors as in Dan Millman's Peaceful Warrior, this hands-on oracle will be a welcome addition. In these uncertain times, it will be a helpful tool to many seeking inner guidance and understanding.
Martha Ramirez-Oropeza is a mural painter, a performer in popular theatre, and a researcher/lecturer of the Nahuatl pre-Hispanic codices of Mexico. She was vice-director of the Mascarones Theatre Group for 32 years, and designed and co-founded the Nahuatl University pyramid campus in Ocotepec, Morelos, Mexico. She apprenticed under master muralist David A. Siqueiros, Guillermo Monroy in the Fine Arts Institute, and, more recently, under Chicana muralist Judith F. Baca. She conducts international Nahuatl Culture seminars in Mexico and lectures at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is also an artist in residence at the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) in Venice, California, and is a performing and visual arts teacher for children in a Spanish total immersion school in Santa Monica, California. William Douglas Horden has researched indigenous divinatory systems of ancient China and Mexico with passion and independence since 1969. He is steeped in the shamanic world view from living in the Copper Canyon of Mexico with the Tarahumara Indians and in numerous other indigenous communities over the past few decades. William was initially trained in the I Ching by Master Khigh Alx Dhiegh and has since developed a fresh new approach to the ancient art. He currently lives in Roseburg, Oregon and Coatepec, Mexico.
