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Interpreting IC Lines as Waveforms

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In the process of building hexagrams we move from the general to the particular, bottom to top, vague to crisp, approximate to precise. What is indicated in this process is a change in qualitative meanings, a change not reflected in the yin/yang line structures where their only apparent difference is in their order, their magnitude remains 'constant' (0 XOR 1, yin XOR yang).

TO maintain this sense of building-up meaning in a sequence and yet elicit an increasing sense of precision as we move from bottom to top, we can interprete each line position as reflecting a quality expressed in the form of a wave/pulse. Each line doubles the frequency of the previous line's wave such that as we move up the hexagram we are creating meaning through the constructive/destructive interference of the waves as we add them together. The frequencies are:

line 1 (bottom) 2 cycles per second ( and so basic, general, yin/yang determination)
line 2 - 4 cps
line 3 - 8 cps
line 4 - 16 cps
line 5 - 32 cps
line 6 - 64 cps (high precision focus, 64 particulars, yin as hex 02, yang as hex 01 etc etc)

The yin/yang or 0/1 markers are if the yang is 'off' or 'on' and so bringing out actual vs potential states. Also note that as we build, so each line is the EXPRESSION of all that came before it. IOW line 1 with its focus on yin/yang determination is the EXPRESSION of what came before it - T'ai Chi, the undifferentiated whole etc. Line 2 is the EXPRESSION of line 1 etc; line 6 covers the expression of yin/yang from the categories derived at line 5. (and so the PAIRS of hexagrams in line 6 are reflecting such notions as unconditional vs conditional forms of expression - e.g. 02 vs 23)

Given the line position material (http://www.iimetro.com.au/~lofting/myweb/linemean.html#Details ) so these six waves are representing of primary attributes, manifest in those hexagrams where yang is 'on' for only that line. Thus we have:

line 1 - hex 24 - worker/raw (bottom, begin)
line 2 - hex 07 - supervisor
line 3 - hex 15 - local lord
line 4 - hex 16 - minister/adviser
line 5 - hex 08 - ruler/court
line 6 - hex 23 - sage/refined (top, end)

Implicit in this is that all of the other hexagrams are compounds of these basics. Thus hexagram 27 reflects the summing of the qualities of 24 with the qualities of 23. Hex 29, reflects the summing of the qualities of 7 with the qualities of 8, hexagram 62 reflects the summing of 15 and 16, hexagram 30 is the summing of the qualities of lines 1, 3, 4, 6, and so the qualities of 24, 15, 16, and 23. Hex 47 reflects the summing of 2, 4, and 5 and so the summming of the qualities of 07, 16, and 08. (note the pairs of rotations and their numbering re the traditional sequence - lines 1-6 (24,23), 2-5 (07,08), 3-4 (15,16). The 'mirror' nature counters the more sequencial nature of line relationships of 1-4, 2-5, 3-6))

Thus hexagram 02 represents the realm of POTENTIALS (000000) just as hex 01 (111111) is the sum of all of these expressions, and so full-on actualisation.

By focusing on wave forms so we retain the sense of (a) six 'main' lines and yet (b) introduce harmonics, chords derived from these basics. It is this notion of waves that allow us to use the XOR operator to extract details from each hexagram (as covered in the linemean link above) in that what is indicated is a topological perspective where all is connected together and LOCAL distortions draw out a particular from that set of all. In that drawing-out so the others are ordered into a format that allows for the identification of their expression THROUGH this particular context.

Thus in recursion, each ROW is a complex wave pattern and each category derived in each row is a particular manifestation of a harmonic out of that pattern. Thus the 64 hexagrams are each 'exaggerations' out of the complex waveform of level 6 (2^6). The exaggerations mean that WITHIN each hexagram are expressed all of the others as they contribute to that hexagram's expression, the life history of whatever that hexagram represents etc. (and so XOR-ing a hexagram with 24 gives us a desription of how it 'begins', as XOR-ing with 27 gives us its skeletal form)

Chris.

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