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Changing Lines in IC+

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In searching out the truth about the Changing lines I checked IC+ materials and was ready for the unexpected.


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It is often found that, for example, the line comment for a specific line bares little association with the generated hexagram or with the overall hexagram.

My own research suggests that this system may be of a later origin and that the original concept, based around refinement, worked something like this:

In the I Ching we find no comments on the nature of a *non-changing* line. Is it possible to ascertain the nature of a line within a hexagram in a more specific context than it's position attributes (worker, sage etc)?

Using the refinement aspect - top trigram in the context of the bottom - we consider, for one line, the source of change. The suggestion is it is external. We extend this by considering the source of the change with relation to the current hexagram. In this source, the inner/outer dichotomy, in relation to 'us', is reversed. Therefore, taking this into consideration we (a) create the changed hexagram and then (b) swap the trigrams. Using this system -

this:
010000
___X

becomes this:
100010

What is surprising about this is that the resulting hexagram is symbolic of the change affecting the line in the old one rather than the old one changing into a new one. For example, in hexagram 1, The Creative, the comments for the changing bottom line imply that, although having potential it is best to lie low for now. By applying the above system, the hexagram of influence is hexagram 9 - The Taming Power of the Small. This hexagram deals with the making of small gains. In this context what is being said is that in the beginning, (bottom position) if you do NOT put in enough energy (normal yang line) then only small gains can be made (changed yang to yin line).

What is implied here is that the hexagram of influence on a non-changing line is infact the opposite of that for a changing line. In the context of hexagram 1 we have hexagram 16 - Enthusiasm, which suggests the first step through hexagram 1 is enthusiasm and preparedness/foresight (a plan).

We find, therefore, that in each hexagram, a pair of hexagrams influence each line. This influence can be either positive or negative.

We further find that the hexagram pair influencing the top line is closely associated with the overall meaning of the hexagram. This would be logical since, in the context of refinement, the top line symbolizes completion and the full hexagram's name incorporates the top line's 'meaning' together with the rest. For example, the text of the Creative emphasises leadership but at all times searching for and then maintaining balance. The top line of the hexagram is influenced by the hexagram pair of 10 Conduct (changing line) / 15 Modesty (normal line). (this can of course be further refined).

For situations of multiple changing lines, the method of processing is the same (swap trigrams after applying the changes) but the structure we get is of a hexagram that is influencing all change. There are no comments for these sorts of conditions, but taking the influencing hexagram within the context of the influenced hexagram, I am sure the user can determine what is going on.

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Whole article:
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~ddiamond/clines.html




((Offtopic tech msg for Chris: In IC+ On LIne Help/Lake Octet/38 Opposition Page1 returns Object Not Found - The requested URL was not found on this server. The link on the referring page seems to be wrong or outdated. Please inform the author of that page about the error.))
 
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yick said:
((Offtopic tech msg for Chris: In IC+ On LIne Help/Lake Octet/38 Opposition Page1 returns Object Not Found - The requested URL was not found on this server. The link on the referring page seems to be wrong or outdated. Please inform the author of that page about the error.))

I am the author so consider me informed! ;-) I think there are few more issues with that on-line help - and with new IE there will be more issues since RoboHelp (the product I use to set up such pages) is not yet updated (and so the issues with using firefox on those pages!)

I will try and fix any missing links on the Wkend but I also have space issues so it may take some time. I have a new table format under development to replace the current IC+ homepage (http://members.iimetro.com.au/~lofting/myweb/newindex.html ) and I think that will make things easier once completed.

AS for trigram swapping, the jury is still out re we are talking swapping or rotating but the results seem to generate good fits (but again there is a better usage when using questions etc). This is focused on hierarchies of course whereas XOR focuses on magnitudes (and so the ability to extract finer details about some hexagram)

Chris.
 

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