At the heart of every hexagram is its ‘nuclear hexagram’. It’s made up of its inner lines: 234 for its lower trigram, 345 for the upper. So for instance if your original hexagram is 18, Corruption – – then by taking its lines 234,345 you uncover the nuclear hexagram 54,… Read more »Nuclear hexagrams – why bother?
There are some beautiful new papers at Denis Mair’s Yijing Poetics site. I’m currently engrossed in ‘Maybe a daisy chain’, a new story woven from the Sequence of hexagrams. What I find most remarkable – and liberating – about this is how utterly different it is from the story I… Read more »New Yijing poetics
The week before last, I was itching to get started on something, and Yi told me to ‘strip away’ and to have no direction to go. And I realised that I could go anywhere. Then last week, with far more ideas and possibilities in mind than I’d dreamt possible, Yi… Read more »Pushing Upward, but where to?
The Human Design system seems to make a similar promise to astrology – that through your date and time of birth, it can reveal you to yourself. But it does so through an amalgamation of systems: astrology, kabbalah and, centrally, the I Ching. It looks like it’d take years to… Read more »Human Design on hexagram line positions
There have been some very interesting comments to my ‘Christmas I Ching’ post, and I just added some more that arrived by email. Connecting the Maslow hierarchy of needs to the line positions is an interesting idea – I had a faint inkling of it years ago, in connection with… Read more »Comments on the Christmas I Ching
Hexagram 24, Returning, is made up of the trigrams for thunder within the earth: Hexagram 25, Without Entanglement, has thunder below earth’s complement, heaven: Thunder is the vital spark, often human will and initiative. In a time of Returning, the wise old kings would ‘close the gates. Itinerant merchants did… Read more »Trigrams in the sequence from 24 to 25
*** Warning – highly speculative post coming up *** In a previous post, ‘Looking at hexagram pairs’, I mentioned Carrin Dunne’s names for two distinctive kinds of Pair. The four pairs that are complementary and not inverse she calls Dragon Gates. And the four pairs that are both inverted and… Read more »Trigrams in the Sequence IV
