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Time Cycles
- Thread starter oniro
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Hi Oniro
The nodes are printed toward the bottom of each Pair Page. So on page 103 for the pair 5:6 You will see a line starting 9:10 11:12 etc ? they are the nodes.
You can work them out for yourself ? they are the pairs of hexagrams generated when the lines of each hexagram in the pair under consideration change.
The ones in brackets are those hexagrams which Stephen thought were thematically linked. So they are a case of, ?you might want to look at these too.
Stephen played with these for many years and found that they seemed to be part of an ancient age grade structure to the Yijing. So 9:10 reflects the issues we will or did face at the end of our first decade of life. His advice is to reflect on what was happening for you at that time of life, if it is in the past, and consider in what way your current reading is echoing issues and events of that time.
If the hexagram is in the future? well maybe you are prefiguring issues which are echoing back from then.
We will be publishing a paper on this in a couple of weeks time. But hopefully this helps.
Seasons: These have developed a lot since the publication of TIC. Here is a brief guide. Again we will be posting more on the site in the future.
?The Time Cycle links four hexagrams through the images of the Four Seasons to place your situation in the oldest description of divinatory time. Use the Time Cycle to relate your situation to one of these seasons and look backwards and forwards to see where it came from and how it can be developed.
A Time Cycle is made up of four hexagrams that share the same four inner lines, lines that represent a Core Theme of Change. The different top and bottom lines attached to this Nuclear or Core represent the Four Seasons and their themes.
Spring (yang below, yin above): rousing new growth.
Summer (yang below, yang above): ripening the fruits.
Fall (yin below, yang above): harvesting the crop and gathering the insights.
Winter (yin below, yin above): finding the seed of the new by grinding away the old.?
Hopefully this will keep you going for now.
All the best
--Kevin
The nodes are printed toward the bottom of each Pair Page. So on page 103 for the pair 5:6 You will see a line starting 9:10 11:12 etc ? they are the nodes.
You can work them out for yourself ? they are the pairs of hexagrams generated when the lines of each hexagram in the pair under consideration change.
The ones in brackets are those hexagrams which Stephen thought were thematically linked. So they are a case of, ?you might want to look at these too.
Stephen played with these for many years and found that they seemed to be part of an ancient age grade structure to the Yijing. So 9:10 reflects the issues we will or did face at the end of our first decade of life. His advice is to reflect on what was happening for you at that time of life, if it is in the past, and consider in what way your current reading is echoing issues and events of that time.
If the hexagram is in the future? well maybe you are prefiguring issues which are echoing back from then.
We will be publishing a paper on this in a couple of weeks time. But hopefully this helps.
Seasons: These have developed a lot since the publication of TIC. Here is a brief guide. Again we will be posting more on the site in the future.
?The Time Cycle links four hexagrams through the images of the Four Seasons to place your situation in the oldest description of divinatory time. Use the Time Cycle to relate your situation to one of these seasons and look backwards and forwards to see where it came from and how it can be developed.
A Time Cycle is made up of four hexagrams that share the same four inner lines, lines that represent a Core Theme of Change. The different top and bottom lines attached to this Nuclear or Core represent the Four Seasons and their themes.
Spring (yang below, yin above): rousing new growth.
Summer (yang below, yang above): ripening the fruits.
Fall (yin below, yang above): harvesting the crop and gathering the insights.
Winter (yin below, yin above): finding the seed of the new by grinding away the old.?
Hopefully this will keep you going for now.
All the best
--Kevin
This is utterly useful for my study of the Yi Jing and I thank you Kevin for making these themes clear for me. The nodes criteria could connect one with missunderstood periods of past life which in turn might iluminate the unfolding chain of events for a coming period of time. In my personal history I notice major break throughs have occured every ten years. But I don?t know if this is valid for every one else. Otherwise, I wonder if Time Cycle is refered solely to the four seasons during the Chinese lunar year or does it have a broader time spectrum.
Many thanks again.
Many thanks again.