A new method for developing the response to the hexagrams of the I Ching.

[shiny]

I have been using the I Ching for many years and I have found that the response of the hexagram obtained is not absolute but must be related to the context, therefore the response often varies and seems ambiguous, to put it in a metaphor: When the Archer shoots an arrow in the field, it can go in any chosen direction, but once the arrow flies across the field towards the target, the field is defined by the launch. The field therefore interacts with the shooting of the arrow and even if this is correct it can sometimes fail, as if the wind of destiny had modified the flight of the arrow. For this reason I dedicated myself to the study of entropy which concerns the access of the hexagram to the field of its manifestation and the interaction with it. I therefore developed a method of distributing the trigrams of a hexagram by "casting them into the form" of the generative matrices of the same trigrams. These are The First Heaven or Primary Sequence and the Second Heaven or Secondary Sequence. I then let the matrices reformulate the hexagram, mine, but which thus becomes non-positional, and related to the field as well as to my subjective will. The extraordinary result is that the response of the hexagram and its change is stabilized and actualized immediately! I have now added "and its change". In fact, when the change interacts with the hexagram everything can change. Furthermore, in the text of the I Ching there are precise references to the retrograde motion of the numbers that constitute it (but I cannot go into the topic here). Therefore I developed a retrograde motion of the oracle: { hexagram-> change} + { change-> hexagram} and calculated everything in number. Finally I am going to read this number/response (which resolves in itself the interaction of the trigrams and the change of the hexagram) in the Book of the Dead of the ancient Egyptians, having found that the circular ordering of Sho Yung's hexagrams converges in the code of astrological composition also of Egyptian book. The answers are precise! I leave you with my blog with an excerpt of my method exposed in the book:
The Phoenix and The Eye Of Horus - Access to the spells in the Egyptian Book of the Dead by means of the numerical code of the I Ching.
https://sekhem125.blogspot.com/
Umberto Capotummino

 

[breakmov]

Hello shiny

I want to understand the steps of what you wrote.
Would it be possible for you to leave a concrete example using a reading I did today... which goes like this:

"Now that I have already done that work to express this meaning that was hidden from me, what is the next step?..... hex 64.4.6 -- 7 "

breakmov

 

[shiny]

Hi, Breakmov,

Hello shiny

I want to understand the steps of what you wrote.
Would it be possible for you to leave a concrete example using a reading I did today... which goes like this:

"Now that I have already done that work to express this meaning that was hidden from me, what is the next step?..... hex 64.4.6 -- 7 "

breakmov

I'll start with a traditional reading of the hexagram and its change. The hexagram you obtained 64 concerns the relationship between Li (upper trigram) and K'unn (lower trigram). R.Wilhem explains (comment on the second part of the text) that although all the lines in 64 are not in the right place, [Yang right in the first place, yin right in the second place, etc.], nevertheless the trigrams Li and K'unn possess in their midline "the spirit" and "potential" of K'un and Ch'ien respectively, which will form hexagram n. 11 "Peace". In these notes on the hexagram R.Wilhem mentions the interaction of the Front Sky with the Back Sky whose complementarity implements the reordering of everything which in hexagram 64 will bring things to completion through action. The fourth line of the 64 that you obtained invites you to persevere even if you have to work a lot (three years?) and in an environment that is potentially foreign to your personality, in fact the fourth line is at the center of the dark intrinsic K'an trigram. So if you decide to complete, following and collaborating with the fifth yin line superior to your fourth, the response is positive. The difficulty of completion is described in the sixth book of 64: "To possess conformity by tending towards the distillate (wine that is distilled on the fourth line), but if control of the process is lost, the sixth line (which is related to the fourth of K 'an, loses completion. I omit The intrinsic sign of 64 is 63, and reading hexagram 7, The army, at the fourth line the advice is to retreat momentarily (literally: The army turns to the left). sixth line of the hexagram 7 there is an authoritarian leader who governs the yin lines of the 7. However the leader rewards the nine in the second place of the 7 (and this line does not represent you). Now I move on to the response through the complementarity of the hexagrams described in the Mandala that you find on the blog. 64->7 + 7->64 directly gives an Egyptian formula for your "I", a second formula for the power of the Field, and a third summary formula that reveals how things will go anyway.

From 64-> 7 and reverse, the table in my book the formulas are: 46-34 / 80

46: O youths Children of Shu: Geb and Nut. I am the god who at dawn every day takes possession of his

diadem of light; ye future henmemet generations, my dawning is the luminous path of Osiris.


34: The flame-headed solar uraeus that opens millions of years is in front of the banners of blossoms in bloom. Osiris, divine Lynx, fast leaps ‘‘on the neck of the snake with its raised head’’

80 The god who dresses Nut’s girdle appears, light thatshines ahead. The Woman endows Thoth with her magical light from her in the abode of the Moon, at the arrival of the 15th day she takes possession of the Ureret Crown. Maat is in his belly, turquoise and faience at her new-crescent feasts.

In summary: your path will be bright if like a lynx you face the snake, a woman will help you by relieving you of difficulties. Worship her!

I hope I have been useful to you.

 

[breakmov]

Thank you for sharing.

Now I move on to the response through the complementarity of the hexagrams described in the Mandala that you find on the blog. 64->7 + 7->64 directly gives an Egyptian formula for your "I", a second formula for the power of the Field, and a third summary formula that reveals how things will go anyway.

Basically, I would like to understand your thought process that led to consider the formulas you speak of as something that reflects an equivalence between different oracles...

Let me leave a comparison...

Imagine that you want to learn a millenary archery discipline with all its accumulated millenary history of ritual, technique, tradition made of practical experience over 3000 years. Imagine that, in modern times, you were trying to use a reference of recent scientific knowledge to help you master this archery technique... it would be like creating a more up-to-date point of reference, also true, but completely external to the ancient tradition... imagine Newton's theory of gravity as that new point of reference, since this archery technique is related to the launching of projectiles with a trajectory that can be measured and known.
In this case, the formulas or mathematical knowledge you are using, you know that they have a direct and true relationship with the ancient discipline.

My curiosity is precisely with the process that led you to consider the formulas you developed as a true equivalence that could be used to, in your case, relate two different oracles.

breakmov

 

[shiny]

Dear Breakmov, I like your friendliness, I will share with you the stages of my new path. After a few years of study starting from the age of 25 (and today I am 72), I mastered the hexagrams of the I Ching by heart, especially in the relationships between the trigrams and in the relationships between the lines, a technique revealed to R. Wilhelm by his teacher Lao, as he himself tells in his book "Die Seele Chinas", translated into Italian: "The soul of China" (Ibis 2005). To read this story I attach this link, which you can automatically translate. https://www.esonet.org/richard-wilh...stro-lau-nai-suann-una-traduzione-iniziatica/. So one fine day a friend of mine, who knew my interests regarding the mantic, asked me to predict the arrival of some horses at the racecourse, in fact he was a fan of horse racing. We went and I tried to throw 10 hexagrams for 10 horses in the race. A few meters before arrival the forecast was correct, after those meters it was reversed. However, in some subsequent races, on the same day, those horses and riding jockeys who I had predicted would win the race. This happened several times. I realized that the given and changing hexagram was missing that additional data that would have actualized the required response in real time and immediately instead of a vision of the entire winning destiny of those horses and jockeys at the wheel, which subsequently occurred. I then dedicated myself to the study of nuclear trixagrams. But the amount of information that each prediction (made with the hexagrams and their nuclear trigrams) had to bring with it was not easily usable quickly and especially several times in a day, for more than one prediction. In those days of study I had a dream: The picture of the Primary Sequence of the hexagrams was luminously suspended on a plane, above it as if illuminated by a flame the picture of the Secondary Sequence of the hexagrams. I woke up at that moment and went to the table and quickly transcribed the Primary Sequence with the Secondary Sequence "on top". You can see the result of the process in the blog. The number 24 which was formed on the diagonals of the drawing, multiplied by the number of diagonals, i.e. 8, gave the number 192. I already knew that the lines of the I Ching are 384 in total and that 192 is the yin part, as 192 is the yang part of the entire group of lines, as R. Wilhelm says (Great Treatise - TaCiuann, Chapter IX, paragraph 5 - in my book in Italian published by Astrolabe). From the above superimposed diagram, a secret key to the I Ching can be deduced that I had never found and is not currently in any published book except mine now. I then went to a friend of mine who was a mathematics professor at the university and a good computer scientist and a few days of work we perfected the "transduction" of the basic and nuclear trigrams - of each hexagram "casting them into the primordial form" of the matrices of the magic squares of both the Primary sequence and the Secondary Sequence. The computer used made each project the sum of the diagonals and finally, to stabilize the count and personalize it, it added the number of the basic hexagram and its change. I returned to the racecourse with the bundle of sheets of these accounts. Each hexagram and change quickly corresponded to a single revealing number. Thanks to my knowledge of the Kabbalah I was able to predict the winning horses exactly. My friend visited me often and insisted that I publish the work I had done. The problem consisted in the relationship between the number and the prediction, the cabala also requires considerable study. In those years I took a trip to Egypt and came into contact with enthusiasts of Egyptian symbolism. Out of my curiosity I read many books including the Book of formulas to manifest the luminous virtue of the god Osiris, translated as Book of the Dead. I was struck by formula 8, 24, and others consistent with them, up to 192. I found that the most recent studies on the book recognize a sequential compilation based on the number 8. (But I will not delve further into the topic). Suffice it to say that in comparing the numbers obtained from the computer counting of the hexagrams, as mentioned above, and the numbers of the formulas of the Book of the Dead of the Ancient Egyptians, I noticed a close correspondence regarding the readable responses: where Osiris wore crowns (and there are several) there was the winning horse. An understandable and not just numerical reading of the divinatory responses was possible, the same method can be applied to anything for which one wants to know the definitive outcome.

I decided to write a book about the method. First in Italian with the title “L'occhio della Fenice”, later translated into English: The Phoenix and The Eye Of Horus. To read a response related to the I Ching one must enter into Egyptian symbolism with this method, but many of the 'impossibility' myths attributed to wanting to use the I Ching to personal purposes and for an immediate response have vanished!

Have a nice day.

 

[breakmov]

I wish your work much success and thank you for letting me see the context, of what was possible, behind the path presented for a harmonious communication between the Yijing, the Kabala and the Egyptian book of the dead.

breakmov