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Philosophical question on fixed hexagram and hexagram with changing lines

CristinaO

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Hello,

I am still a little begineer in this fascinating world and I have a philosophical question on the hexagrams.
Is there an additional reading/meaning behind the fact that I most likely get hexagrams with changing lines and very rarely fixed hexagrams?
This came out to my mind last week, I've always wondered if the 2 types of exagrams are somehow related to our inner body regardless their 64 different readings?

Thanks for your answers and help :bows:
 
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sooo

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I personally have never made a great distinction between unchanging hexagrams and those with lines and a relating hexagram, other than there's nothing further to add. I don't place uc hexagrams in a special category having special implications. Many times, after receiving an unchanging hexagram I'll ask for elaboration, and will receive the same hexagram with change lines, referring to more specific information.

I assure you; do enough readings and you'll receive plenty of unchanging hexagrams.
 

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You could think of unchanging hexagrams as a simple answer and
changing lines as a more detailed answer.
 
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I spent the first thirty years of working with the Yi trying to work out why a reading that gave me a mixture of positive and negative omens could make sense. For the last ten-odd years I have followed ancient tradition and use one and only one text from a reading, either a line text or a judgement. There is a simple formula for determining which one to use. I'm a bit extreme, though, since the ancient formula can produce and answer of two judgement texts, but I don't use that. I only get one text. I'm a lot happier with my system than I was trying to puzzle out multiline answers, but to each his own.
 

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Thank you so much for all your input, it makes more sense now. I will continue with readings and probably the answer to this question (if there's any) will come itself, without asking for it.

I like this place a lot. It's so helpful and inspiring :)
 

hsin

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ChristinaO,

You wrote:

I've always wondered if the 2 types of hexagrams are somehow related to our inner body regardless their 64 different readings?


Would you mind saying more about "our inner body regardless of their 64 different readings" ?
I find this an intriguing question and am curious about how you are looking at this.

Thank you--
Looking forward to hearing about your perceptions.....
 
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I did some work on the maths and probabilities. I sometimes found unchanging casts a little bit irritating so I wondered how many should I expect.
4/16 moving line.
12/16 static line.
(12/16)^6 is 1/5.618
That gives about 5/28 casts with unchanging hexagrams. Its an average figure so you might get a string of a couple of dozen casts with none unchanging and then two or three or more unchanging together or closely grouped.
Two unchanging in a row is (1/5.618)^2 about 1/30.
I looked at a random string of 28 sequential casts and there were 5 unchanging. I looked at a bigger sample of a few hundred and the figure stood up to the test.
So I concluded that the magic of the Yi is not that it defies the laws of probability but that it somehow produces meaningful casts within that limitation. That still leaves a lot of room for manoeuvre.
A few exceptions that buck the trend will occur and since we are not machines our subconscious will have an impact on the casting.
 

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