Ideal and shadow hexagrams - how are they arrived at?

[Graham_Giles]

Hi everybody,

I saw an article recently about ideal and shadow hexagrams and thought I'd like to explore the idea further. I couldn't see though how the ideal hexagrams were arrived at (you get the shadow hexagrams by subtracting the number of the basic ones from 65).

Does anyone know anything about this please? I've googled for the subject but had to draw a blank.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Trojina]

Liselle wrote about these in the explanations thread and also linked I think to Hilary's mini course

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[Graham_Giles]

Liselle wrote about these in the explanations thread and also linked I think to Hilary's mini course

Explanations of tools and methods

If you're using an unusual tool or method in your interpretations, one that a newcomer here wouldn't be familiar with, then we ask you to explain it - either in your post, or somewhere you can link to from the post. This is a thread for those explanations! Please add your tool/ method here, and...

www.onlineclarity.co.uk

Thanks for replying, I'll have a look at that later. To me this looks like a very valuable source of information.

 

[my_key]

Hi Graham_Giles
Stephen Karcher was an originator of the Ideal and Shadow aspects of I Ching.
If you'd like to hear it from the horses mouth then it's in the file named Ideal and Shadow at this link on his website.

ROOM || Using Change: Nuts & Bolts - I Ching: Living Change

Using Change: Nuts and Bolts Short articles on basic ideas and practices involved in using Change. Change Operators Change Operators offer a technique for determining the specific transformative action of the Two Powers in a given situation. They can give us a sense of effective inner...

ichinglivingchange.org

This site is a veritable cornucopia for those who want to bathe in the delights of Stephen Karcher and contains extracts from his book I Ching The Symbolic Life.

 

[Graham_Giles]

Thanks for replying. I'll take a look at that soon.