The more I look into the King Wen sequence, the more depths I discover. Take the two hexagrams that describe grand, historic events of legendary proportions: 49, Radical Change, and 55, Abundance. Hexagram 49 describes the time of revolution, when the Zhou people overthrew the Shang. And hexagram 55 has… Read more »Layers of story
Calling all mathematically-minded Yeeks (that’s Yi Geeks) – there is a new monograph available from Berkeley: STEDT Monograph 5: Classical Chinese Combinatorics: Derivation of the Book of Changes Hexagram Sequence Richard S. Cook The first and most enigmatic of the Chinese classics is the Book of Changes, and the reasoning… Read more »New King Wen sequence book
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
Last time I splashed out on books I bought not just the shiny new Ritsema/Sabbadini, but also Sarah Allan’s The Shape of the Turtle. And I am enjoying it no end. She writes about Shang myth, but there are many, many resonances in the Zhouyi. But finding one with the… Read more »More trigrams in the sequence (hexagrams 6, 7 and 8)
The more I look at the Sequence of hexagrams, the more it seems obvious that the trigrams are an intrinsic part of its logic. The patterns are there to be found. (Here’s a handy colour-coded trigram chart that makes it easier.) For an outstanding analysis of the large-scale patterns, the… Read more »Trigrams in the Sequence of Hexagrams
