Symbols of Love: I Ching for Lovers, Friends and Relationships

As I have recently taken up learning I Ching I found this book a great edition to my new collection.This book is all about guidance in regards to relationships.If you are single,or,in a relationship,married,etc you will find this book a great guide. This book shows how I Ching can help with relationships/matters of the heart and in detail too.This is a very accurate book. I'm amazed at the guidance I'm getting from this book. Each hexagram is covered in great detail.About 4 pages to each one.Thats a good thing.(The author's book "Total I Ching" has 4-6 long pages). This is the first and only book I found on I Ching that specifically caters to relationships and its a great book. There are similarities between this book and the author's book,"Total I Ching" but this one focuses on relationships matters but "Total I Ching" covers other matters and both are indepth books. If you have other books by this author you might like this book too. I also recommend these books: 1)I Ching:a new interpretation for modern times.By Sam Reifler. 2)Practical guidance to the I Ching.By Kim-Anh Lim.

The "Lover's I Ching" and "Symbols of Love" both by Stephen Karcher are amazing wonderful clear and revealing books. I especially like finding out when you have a moment that is a focus-type (my word. the review mentions "22 models of relationships") of relationship, a more powerful time. Stephen Karcher's I Ching translation (the big one) has supplanted other versions I have used in my (since 1967) history of using the I Ching for my life. One thing to notice is he extracts the reality whivhis the positivism out of the time. And he links you to the original Chinese. This helps me to see when one hexagram is using the same concept, the same word, as another hexagram. I have a question. Are these books the same? What is the difference? I haven't seen the black fuzzy one for years.(Lover's I Ching, Hardcover. PUBLISHERS: it should come in a box. imho) To add to the editorial review of this one, he has had some people who work with relationships add interesting material to this book (Symbols of Love), to help you think through the issues of the time, pictured in the hexagram and echoed by what you cast.