http://www.energy-master.com/blog/ Thoughts and musings on The Book of Changes 2011-03-19T11:22:45-04:00 http://www.energy-master.com/blog/archives/2011/03/taoists_practic.html http://www.longmenpai.com/forum/showthread.php?98-Taoists-practicing-in-the-24-points-of-solar-term]]> james 2011-03-19T11:22:45-04:00 http://www.energy-master.com/blog/archives/2011/03/hsien_tien_meth.html Hsien Tien method of accessing the I Ching is the most popular page on the Energy Master site by significant margin. I recently updated the page and method to include the option of correcting the calculation for your local time zone. The ancient Chinese were extremely precise in their time calculations. All official time related to one reference in the imperial capital, and even today, China lives under one time zone (+8) and Chinese are used to there being an 'official' time and a 'local time'. Local time is Sun time. The time the sun is highest in the sky and directly south is local noon. Taoists use local noon for all astrological and biological calculations. The possessed incredibly accurate solar water clocks in relative antiquity and could easily determine longitude to great accuracy before western civilization had even primitive time-keeping. ]]> james 2011-03-17T10:46:22-04:00 http://www.energy-master.com/blog/archives/2011/03/new_features_ad.html The updated main page now includes a local time calculator ( thanks to Google and the GeoCoder) and a graphic display of the local hour according to the Taoist 12 2 hour segments that make up the 24 hour daily cycle. The displayed hour will be correct for your location when you enter your Country and City. If you have a postal code entering that will often correct the calculation by a few seconds. Local Sun Time will be 12:00 noon at your location when the sun is actually crossing your local meridian ( ie, true local noon). In the Long Men Pai, Complete Reality tradition, the shen returns at the moment of the change of the two hour period. There are twelve of these moments each day. These will occur locally when your sun time is exactly on the odd hours. The 'living midnight' usually refers to the beginning of the hour of tzu, ( 11:00 pm). In stillness, the subtle return of the shen in one of it's many forms marks the 'huo tzu' or living hour of the eternal return. james 2011-03-17T09:49:19-04:00 http://www.energy-master.com/blog/archives/2008/02/new_life_for_an.html If you are having trouble accessing an existing account, my apologies. Some upgrading to the logon and subscription requirements have resulted in a numer of accounts being deleted. This was necessary where insufficiant information was present to calculate an accurate... james 2008-02-06T04:20:50-04:00 http://www.energy-master.com/blog/archives/2006/12/on_the_book_of.html Changeless Change and changing change. As part of this year's Asian trip, I've decided to seek new insight from The Book of Balance and Harmony, a perenial source of inspiration into the inner design and meaning of the I. I... james 2006-12-23T09:43:45-04:00 http://www.energy-master.com/blog/archives/2005/03/the_origins_of.html I started working on Energy Master in 1989. At that time I had a 386 and Turbo Pascal 5. I wanted an easier way to do the tedious calculations required to get an I Ching horoscope using W.K. Chu's Rational... james 2005-03-22T13:46:56-04:00 http://www.energy-master.com/blog/archives/2005/03/first_note.html It's taken months, not all of them productive, to restore the basic Energy Master web functionality. I used the opportunity to move everything into one interface at Energy-Master.com. The I Ching browser, Energy Master itself, the Hsien Tien hexagram and... james 2005-03-22T08:48:50-04:00