pairs & sequence

[anemos]

Lately I'm getting readings that either the two hexes belong to the same pair(e.g 22>21) or there is a sequence. ( e.g. got 53.6 and then 54.1) . I came to realize that I totally ignore that part of relationships between hexes and lines. If my memory serves me right, there was a thread on that subject but seems I can't find it.

Does anyone of you remember it ? or could you point me some online resources where I can't find more info ? I'm curious to see what the theory is around it and see if it can help me in some areas.

Thanks in advance

 

[russell]

I’m not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for, but there are two ways to pair hexagrams. The King Wen sequence usually pairs them by turning them upside-down, unless a hexagram is the same when upside-down; then it pairs them by reversing the polarity of the lines.

Being as I am into symmetry and binary numbers, and as an admirer of Shao Yong and Leibniz, I believe that pairing each hexagram with its reversed-polarity opposite makes more sense. (Heresy, perhaps, to devotees of King Wen.) Every hexagram has a reversed-polarity opposite. In this scheme, hexagram 22’s counterpart is 47, not 21. I have listed all these hexagram pairs at

russellcottrell.com/VirtualYarrowStalks/pangTong.htm

—Russell

 

[anemos]

Thank you Russell.

May I ask if you consult Yi and by using those pair do they give you additional information that the regular one's ? or have you "discover" any new meanings-associations ?

 

[bradford]

There are actually three kinds of pairs, inverse and opposite,
and the third being a reversal of the two constituent bagua.
See pages 16-18 of my Volume Two for more, and how to use them.

 

[anemos]

thanks, will check it.

 

[russell]

O.K. here is one example. Asking about someone’s unexpected negative reaction to a request that I had made, I got 25 changing to 64. 25’s pang tong gua is 46. I did not think I was acting without honesty, and the changing lines (1, 2, 5) reflected in 46 are much more encouraging and relevant than those in the traditional counterpart, 26.

Or when a task seemed unsurmountable: 13 changing to 33. The pang tong gua is 7, The Army, which provides a much different context than 14, Great Posession.

—Russell

 

[anemos]

interesting examples, both of them, Russell.

I like 46 as a remedy for a 64 situation, which for me most of the times has to do with anxiety. Also 13, 33 and 7 very interesting if we look at 13.1 ; that combination , of 33 and 7 always reminds me of the book "art of war" .

Will try that in future reading to "feel" how it can be of some help. Feels like they give an additional insight about the fields of energies the reading creates.

thank you for sharing them . Appreciate it a lot !

 

[anemos]

Applied the pang tong gua concept to a recent reading. : 6.2.3.4>53. 6’s pang tong gua is 36. Makes more sense now.

Also can see the 22 - 47 pair . I was trying to express it in a recent h22 thread

Thanks again Russell