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how do we use this in readings?
This is amazing, thanks so much Hilary!
How to use it in readings?
I personally wouldn't.
There are countless factors to take into account with any reading.
If I tried to take everything into account every time I'd feel 'drowned'!
Here is the closed Grid diagram from page 9 of the pdf, with hexagram numbers added:
http://1drv.ms/1IPkVZl
(Please let me know if I've made mistakes.)
Especially fascinating how this pattern has been here all along but only now this lady just sort of noticed it. Maybe all sorts of heretofore unrecognized patterns will be seen in the year coming up as Saturn, the planet ruling organization enters into Sagittarius, the sign of wisdom and philosophy. Thanks for posting this.
Question: is the closed Grid suppposed to be the end result of Gritter's analysis? (It seems to be, to me, but I've only read the document once plus a little skimming.)
Asking because if so - if the closed Grid is the new suggested arrangement, rather than the standard checkerboard - it seems to put the hexagrams in a whole new order. Reading top to bottom and left to right, the closed Grid order is: 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 1, 2, 37, 38, 39, 40, 3, 4, 5, 6, 41, 42, etc.
But that's not the King Wen order, and the whole point of this discovery (I think) is to "prove" the King Wen order, or at least show a very convincing explanation of its validity.
So a question might be, what does it mean (for example) that hexagram 31 is legitimately 31st, but in the closed Grid it comes first? Maybe "end result" isn't the way to think about it? Maybe the open Grid is more the end point?
(Actually - reading through it again - Gritter states on pg. 8, "The new pattern will be referred to as ‘the Grid’," referring to the open Grid. I think I was confused by the fact that the document begins on pg. 1 with the closed diagram - I thought it was leading with its conclusion; maybe not.)
Or (having nothing to do with spreadsheets in OneDrive) - could the original pdf be made editable, and the hexagram numbers typed directly on top of the colored blocks? Don't know if that's possible - and maybe it would be too small & wouldn't look nice? - and maybe you wouldn't want that anyway - ?
Not sure how it's clearer...it's all there, certainly, but it's small, blurry, and not downloadable, which was Hilary's question. Am I missing something?LiSe's version is clearer.
My lesson and conclusion after reading that article was:
The I Ching is a masterpiece of wisdom and harmony.
It is so perfectly constructed that it truly fills me with awe with its completeness.
Not sure how it's clearer...it's all there, certainly, but it's small, blurry, and not downloadable, which was Hilary's question.
Am I missing something?
It is clearer to me because both hexagrams and their KWS numbers are there.
Hilary - some downloading options (this may not be absolutely exhaustive - the internet is full of options):
- The full working Excel spreadsheet as an .xlsx file. Do you have a recent version of Microsoft Excel (2007 or above, I think)? It will work there, and probably in some free knock-offs (LibreOffice, for example). And of course in the Excel web app, if you have a Microsoft account (OneDrive, Office Online, Outlook.com web email..).
- PDF - unfortunately, Excel Online (OneDrive) does not have a direct option to save as a pdf. But Google Sheets does, and I could use that instead if you'd like a pdf.
- HTML code for embedding. Via OneDrive, this will be an iframe, whatever that is. There are options for letting viewers sort, filter, and type into cells (which may not be useful for this). It comes out rather small and with scrollbars, but the height and width may be adjustable before you'd embed it.
- JavaScript code for embedding (using a <div>, whatever that is).
- A jpg screen clip. (This will be readable, but blurry.)
- Open Document Format, whatever that is.
- Google Docs also has an option to download as a zipped webpage (they say - have never tried it).
This complementarity has a direct reference to the concepts of yin and yang, having a
prominent position in the Yijing. The Lower Canon (red, 17 hexagram pairs) is yang, the
Upper Canon (blue, 15 hexagram pairs) is yin.
This is the opposite of how I have always understood it.
Yes... it's a surprise, you'd think Canon #1 would be yang and #2 yin. But it's hard to argue with those groupings of 6, 8, 9 and 7 hexagrams.
Below is an image of the closed Grid in which the yang blocks are white and the yin blocks
black (p.12).
Disclaimer: I have my own reconstruction, made decades ago, of the pattern underlying the King Wing Sequence, and so I am one of the few who has a standard based on ancient Chinese artifacts for criticizing the efforts of others.
Is that available anywhere?
(Am completely bewildered by all of this uch:, so I'll just ask that really obvious question .)
What about the tidal guas (the twelve Waxing and Waning hexagrams ILLUSTRATION) ? They are not to be found divided equally in those four sections (as mentioned in #26, this thread). You will find hex. 1-2-11-12 in the green section (see #26 page 11 link), hex. 19-20-23-24 in the blue section, and hex. 33-34-43-44 in the yellow section but none in the red section... Could have been fitting if those tidal guas had been found equally divided - three in each section.
... just one detail, not serious: On page 10 in THIS pdf-file about the symmetry he marked one wrong pair blue, namely the second lower pair which should had been white while the third lower center-pair instead had been blue to make the mirror-image. But: just a detail that surely wasn't intended....
By this stage he is showing both canons in one diagram. He has, as it were, taken his grid and folded it in half, mapping one canon onto the other. The blocks from the Upper Canon fit perfectly into the spaces in the Lower Canon.How does Gert determine this? How can there be yang blocks in a yin canon?
Is that available anywhere?
(Am completely bewildered by all of this uch:, so I'll just ask that really obvious question .)
A remarkable point I found was that the eight dubble-lined trigrams * ie. hex. 1-2, 19-20, 33-34 and 61-62 is to be found, one pair in each category namely hex. 1-2 in the row of Old yin (6). hex. 19-20 in the row of Young yin (8). hex. 33-34 in the row of Old yang (9) and finally hex. 61-62 in the row of Young yang (7). See p. 11 HERE where You'll find those dubble-lined trigram-pairs situated each in the green, the blue, the yellow and the red section.
* What to call those eight "dubble-lined-trigrams" I don't know but to example take the trigram for Fire: stroke-broken stroke-stroke and dubble each line: stroke-stroke /broken stroke-broken stroke/stroke-stroke Youll get hex. 61..... and so on
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