The idea (which I had a few days ago) is that the 8 trigrams come in pairs of the "Greek" elements Fire, Air, Water and Earth *such that* for each element one of the two trigrams holds/binds its element together, while the other trigram lets go of it, releases it.* EARTH - Mountain (male, 3rd...

Here is an article I wrote, which might interest you: * * https://www.exactphilosophy.net/elemental-changes-i-ching.pdf It is about a new way of arranging the trigrams of the I Ching in a circle and considers trigrams in terms of changes between the 4 "Greek" elements. See the article for full...