I ching in our life: hexagrams and our own age

[Olga Super Star]

I have found a correlation between Yi's hexagrams and our own age. Up to now the only person I told about this laughed at me, but I have found some truth in this in my own age.

Has anyone experienced the same so far?

 

[Gmulii]

I can think of many ways to convert age and periods to Hexagrams.
By 10 year periods, by current year and other ways...

HLLS assigns the current age to lines of hexagrams as well:

He Luo Li Shu ( HLLS ) 河洛理数 Calculator

Five Arts Calculators,Liu Yao(Wen Wang Gua), Bazi, HLLS and XKDG, currently.

www.bright-hall.net

(when scroll down can see the ages at each line, although I haven't learn HLLS, so can't go into details in there)

However, I'm not sure that is exactly what you mean... If you mean finding Hexagram that fits to the changes we are going through, there should be , sure.

 

[Olga Super Star]

I can think of many ways to convert age and periods to Hexagrams.
By 10 year periods, by current year and other ways...

By 10 year period you mean that the first 10 years of your life it's 1, from 11 to 20 you are hex 2, and so on?

HLLS assigns the current age to lines of hexagrams as well:

He Luo Li Shu ( HLLS ) 河洛理数 Calculator

Five Arts Calculators,Liu Yao(Wen Wang Gua), Bazi, HLLS and XKDG, currently.

www.bright-hall.net

(when scroll down can see the ages at each line, although I haven't learn HLLS, so can't go into details in there)

Interesting.

I particularly meant that when you are 31 you experience hex 31 in your life. When you are 33 you experience 33, and so on. When you turn 65 I don't know, you either go back to 1 or go reverse: 63, 62, 61..

But I have also thought about a correlation with years.
After all 2020 was a hex 20 year. All the world waiting and watching.

 

[Gmulii]

I particularly meant that when you are 31 you experience hex 31 in your life. When you are 33 you experience 33, and so on. When you turn 65 I don't know, you either go back to 1 or go reverse: 63, 62, 61..

But I have also thought about a correlation with years.
After all 2020 was a hex 20 year. All the world waiting and watching.

This seems to work, yea.

 

[hilary]

The idea of linking hexagrams with ages isn't as off-the-wall as it might sound. I think Scott Davis was the first to point out that there are distinct correlations between some hexagrams' text and the ideal/traditional 'age grade' system of progress through life. For instance, a hair-pinning coming-of-age ritual for boys of 16, marriage in your 20s for women and 30s for men, public service in your 40s, enfoeffment (commemorated by casting a ding) at 50. (That's just what I can remember without looking back at the book; there's more detail.)

Then Stephen Karcher adopted this into his method of divination, and suggested that you could find age-related references in your cast hexagram's steps of change. So for instance if you cast hexagram 18, the topic you asked about would have resonances with the events of your mid-20s, early 50s, early childhood, etc. (I haven't found much use for this idea, but ymmv...)

 

[Olga Super Star]

Then Stephen Karcher adopted this into his method of divination, and suggested that you could find age-related references in your cast hexagram's steps of change. So for instance if you cast hexagram 18, the topic you asked about would have resonances with the events of your mid-20s, early 50s, early childhood, etc. (I haven't found much use for this idea, but ymmv...)

I guess steps of change are the hexagrams each line changes to? 18.1>26, 18.2>52..
So if I cast 18.1 that would have resonance with events of my mid-20s only, since it's the first line, or do you think all lines apply?

 

[hilary]

I think he thinks all lines apply, but better have a look at Total I Ching to make sure. I'm not really convinced by this at all.

 

[moss elk]

I hear it isn't over at 64.

 

[Olga Super Star]

They knew the I Ching

 

[hilary]

I did ask Stephen what happened at 64. He reckoned you might turn round and start coming back.

 

[Eileen-31]

Well, not wanting to be a stickler ... but there is always the fact that the first year of life is not age 1.
When we say someone "is 1" this = our 2nd year of life and so on ...
So, how does that work? When does hex 1 kick in?

Having "turned 65" in 2020, it would mean that from March 2020 to March 2021 would be either a hex 1 year or hex 2 (cuz "I'm 65" is in fact my 66th year of life).

Likewise, is my 65th year of life (when I say "I'm 64" which = 2019) = hex 64 or hex 1 ??
I'm at a period when I could look into that...When was the big sea-change for me > from 64 to 1 ?
Was it 2019 or 2020 ?? (And I wouldn't want to confuse Covid-limbo-year with a more personal cycle.)

I'll ponder ... and (maybe) get back to you!

I did ask Stephen what happened at 64. He reckoned you might turn round and start coming back.

Does this mean to go from 64 to 63 and so forth?

 

[hilary]

Does this mean to go from 64 to 63 and so forth?

Yes, I think that was the idea: not starting over, but going in reverse. (I don't know what you're meant to do when you reach 129, but maybe you wouldn’t be too bothered anyway.)

He thinks in pairs, not individual hexagrams, so that gives you a bit of leeway, though I have no idea whether '3' means 'in your 3rd year' or 'after your 3rd birthday'. You could just make this up for yourself.

(What's actually in the Yi: allusions to stages of life in the Sequence of Hexagrams. What we do with this in readings is a whole other kettle of fish.)

 

[Olga Super Star]

I like the idea that 3 is after your third birthday. I take 0-1 as a neutral brain molding starting year