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Your classification of the hexagrampairs is not in accordance with the layout of the sequence.I would like to share my understanding of changes in I Ching. Please kindly give your comment.
The hexagram steps onto the stage of I Ching in accordance with the sequence of 64 hexagrams. Each pair of hexagrams appears in the form of either a revised hexagram or a changed hexagram of the former one. The hexagram pair appearing in the interchangeable form usually possesses the opposite significances, like hexagrams 1 (Chien) and 2 (Kun), hexagrams 10 (Tay) and 11 (Pi), hexagram 17 (Sui) and 18 (Ge), hexagram 29 (Kan) and 30 (Li), hexagram 53 (Jen) and 54 (Gui Mei), as well as hexagram 63 (Chi Chi) and 64 (Wei Chi), except for hexagram 27 (Yi) and 28 (Da Guo), hexagram 61 (Zhoung Fu) and 62 (Hsiao Guo), signifying a reverse after reaching extremity or the end.
Water and Fire do not harm each other, according to the received version of Shuo Gua,Hex 29 (Repeated Kan) is annotated as multiple perils as Kan is the abyss, and water which flows downward; hex 30 (Li), clinging, according to the coupled hexagram, in the abyss something must be available to cling to, and fire which blazes upward. They are opposite.
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Hi ! Frank,
Thanks for your comment.
I have visited your website several times and I admire very much your aspects. Very seldom I have read such penetrating and systematical interpretation.
Indeed up to now I have been just focusing on the traditional way of studying I Ching; it means to interpret and paraphrase Yi according to Ten Wings. My purpose is to introduce to the western world how the text of Yi is understood by Chinese, from Confucian perspective and based on the conventional analysis and deduction of the image and the line. Strictly speaking, the studies of Yi (Chow Yi) and I Ching are somewhat different in China; in my opinion, I Ching is Confucian Yi. Yang (masculinity, rigidity, goodness, etc) and Yin (femininity, tenderness, evil, etc) are two fundamental elements, and the change between Yin and Yang give life to I Ching.
Regards
Tuck
which is only a deeply insightful expression of the Yi Oracle Spirit in my Flux Tome web page interpretation. In other traditional perspectives it is pretty much just: "Too Bad, So Sad. Shouldn't fall in love with the likes of her."hex28.1 >> hex 44 ( High Over Head >> Lady Luck or overall Keep Your Eyes on the Prize--Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds)
Water and Fire do not harm each other, according to the received version of Shuo Gua,
but Water and Fire do harm each other, according to the Mawangdui version of Shuo Gua.............................
The hexagram sequence is in my reading a discussion of the relationship between Water and Fire:
Why 'the Abysmal' (Water hex 29) is ahead of 'the Clinging' (Fire hex 30) in the sequence?
Why 'Already across' (Water-Fire hex 63) is ahead of 'Not yet across' (Fire-Water hex 64)?
The first pair is a 'reversed' pair and the latter an 'opposite' pair. The two hexagrams of a 'reversed' pair do not change position in the sequence when turned upside down, while the hexagrams of an 'opposite' pair do change position in the sequence when turned upside down. It's like the Former Heaven trigram sequence. Try draw the eight trigrams in a row instead of in a circle on a paper and then turn the paper upside down: Water and Fire change positions :bows:
But only with the "magic key" of Context provided by the context of 1+2+3+4 =10 which seems trivially true, but actually notes that to understand the King Wen Sequence it must be viewed in 4 sets: hexagrams ending in 1, those ending in 2 &3, those ending in 4,5,& 6, and finally those ending in 7&8 combined with those ending in 9& 10 or zero.
............However, the segmental sequence doesn't contains lots of philosophy, for instant, up and down like human life, a colossal change, ..............
Are line 3 of Hex 63 (already across) and line 4 of Hex 64 (not yet across) both in a stern & cruel state (厲) because of one water within two fires?Line 3 of Hex 37 (the household) and line 4 of Hex 38 (alienation) are both in a stern & cruel state (厲) because of one water within two fires.
Are line 3 of Hex 63 (already across) and line 4 of Hex 64 (not yet across) both in a stern & cruel state (厲) because of one water within two fires?
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