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My question regards Trigrams as a part of Hexagrams.
I notice writers divide the Hexagram differently:
1. upper and lower
2. above, upper, lower, below
1. is there historical validity to Richmond's comments?
2. Please clarify the differences in counting the trigrams inside the hexagram?
3. How are they used in interpreting the Gua.
Thank you.
Is there an example using all four trigrams?
Very interesting.
My interest is how Richmond goes from each individual line to interpret each trigram and hexagram. The process is described on pages 11-27 in the Language of the Lines (linked earlier) and his translation of the Yijing is in his other book also available for download The I Ching Oracle. The later may give you a better idea how he uses the lines though the former book in the page above actually shows an interpretation.
I found the process enlightening, I just wonder if it has an historical precedence or is it just his unique understanding or methodology. Thank you.
Fifth line
He does not accept the feeling of solitude
Finding a group like himself he no longer
feels alone.
Six in the fifth place means:
A shoal of fishes. Favor comes through the court ladies.
Everything acts to further.
Based on the trigrams, I think Wilhelm's interpretation of the people/inhabitants as 'ladies' is correct. They are the people who share the royal bed..
Am I to assume from your statement, " not the lines and trigrams of the received text" that this is his own extrapolation
and has no precedence in writers of Yi?
Fifth line
He does not accept the feeling of solitude
Finding a group like himself he no longer
feels alone.
Six in the fifth place means:
A shoal of fishes. Favor comes through the court ladies.
Everything acts to further.
the ancients would have focused more on the bottom and top trigrams and all of the nuclear and individual line interpretations were a later addition by others and may be of value for adding additional symbols and metaphors but I should look to the bottom and top trigrams first.
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