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Should I give the original and changed hexagrams different weights or meanings, or should they be considered co-equal readings. I think I read somewhere that the changed hexagram refers to events further in the future than the original.
Should I give the original and changed hexagrams different weights or meanings, or should they be considered co-equal readings. I think I read somewhere that the changed hexagram refers to events further in the future than the original.
Hexagrams are described like this in the Zuo Zhuan:It would help you understand if you stopped using the word "relating."
This is a bad translation of the word Zhi in Zhi Gua.
Better is "resulting" or "resultant" hexagram, i.e. the result of the changed lines.
In other contexts zhi is also an important particle indicating the possessive,
but here it means becoming, going towards or resulting in.
Its opposite is the Ben Gua, the root or original hexagram.
The diviner said: "This is what remains when Gen becomes Sui". (hex 52 its hex 17)Hexagram 2 its 7 means the second line of hex.2.
The definition of a line dates back to the first ever recorded divination by hexagrams,All lines of a hexagram refer to another hexagram, 2 its 24 is 2's bottom line and 2 its 7 is 2's second line. When you say 2.2 that does not necessarily mean it is changing, neither does 2 its 7.
There are two different answers to your question. The YES answer is the traditional point of view, today known as the "number and image school" point of view. The NO answer is the modern point of view, today known as the "meaning and pattern school" point of view. The former is treating Yi Jing as a divination manual and the latter is treating Yi Jing as ... well, I think that it's precisely formulated in the PLEASE READ sticky of the "shared readings" forumShould I give the original and changed hexagrams different weights or meanings, or should they be considered co-equal readings. I think I read somewhere that the changed hexagram refers to events further in the future than the original.
Clarity,
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