Did it occur to anyone?

[confucius]

That, traditionally considering Qian.1 and Kun.2 as examplary chapters of the Yi to illustrate the working of the Yin and Yang, and Ji Ji.63 and Wei Ji.64 being used as the closing arguments of these aforementioned situations, that there are 60 hexagrams, each containing six Hsiao, or levels, and that, according to many occult practitioners, 60 (true) chapters multiplied by six hsiao is the amount of lunar days in a yearly cycle!
Furthermore that, while considering the (voids) Yin in the Yi, after such a clockwork precision such as this there would be 4096 ideograms in total in a faithfull copy, which is the sum of 64X64!!!!

FuZi uncessantly amazed...

 

[hilary]

I think the first part occurred to LiSe a little while ago. (I don't follow the 'furthermore' part.)

 

[heylise]

Well, the little while was actually about 30 years ago... Because of that I could make a connection of the Yi with the Sabian Symbols, which give an image for every degree of the zodiac. But also a connection of the Yi with the phases of the moon. the first half of the Yi with the yang moons (Rat, Tiger, Dragon, or Aries, gemini, Leo and so on), the second half with the yin moon (Ox, Rabbit, or Taurus, Cancer...). My website has for every hexagram the phase of the moon.

I couldn't follow the 'furthermore' either, but I do know the Yilin, which has 64 x 64 verses, for every change between every two hexagrams, including the 'change' to itself, or static hexagram.

LiSe

 

[confucius]

Well, you can double check, if you will...

There are actually 4082 ideograms in the text of the Yi Jing...some say that this deviance, which is not the sum of 64X64, is intended, to show, once more, that the Yi is not a finite work but never ceasing...But, as is often said in Chinese literature, as well as in the Yi, should be considered what is there as well as what is not there. When the Yi was transcribed, as well as when it was translated, fourteen ''spaces', were (compressed, believed to be typographic misplacements, rather than typographic, and essential, voids, as Yin spaces...

...these spaces have repeatedly changed interpretations of the Yi.

One flagrant example is found here:

Qian.1 All Nines at work.

見 群 龍
jian4 qun2 long2

旡 首 吉
wu2 shou3 ji2

Appearance of dragons in flight formation

Wu= not one, takes the lead=Shou....no void....Ji

here a space is missing (this essential Yin void) explains that, as such, Openness, or Opportunity, ensues...but most, if not all, texts show Jian Qun long
Wu Shou Ji

Whilst the Chinese tri-dimentional structure of the Yi should have a space between Shou and Ji, that is one considerable (unmarked) yet essential accountable character of the Yi.

FuZi

 

[yly2pg1]

That, traditionally considering Qian.1 and Kun.2 as examplary chapters of the Yi to illustrate the working of the Yin and Yang, and Ji Ji.63 and Wei Ji.64 being used as the closing arguments of these aforementioned situations, that there are 60 hexagrams, each containing six Hsiao, or levels, and that, according to many occult practitioners, 60 (true) chapters multiplied by six hsiao is the amount of lunar days in a yearly cycle!
...

in divination with numbers, 60 is important.

Say one "encounters" 81.
To relate back to 64 hexagrams, one can use the following formula:

=> Remainder(81/60) = 21
=> Hex21

To get the changing line,

=> Remainder (81/6) = 3
=> Line 3 is the changing line.