Hexagram articles

Here you’ll find an index of articles and posts I’ve written over the years about individual hexagrams. Some are in-depth explorations, some are single ideas, but I hope all will provide you with something you can use in your readings.

If I don’t seem to have written an article focussed on a particular hexagram, I’ve linked instead from the hexagram reference chart below to the I Ching Community’s hexagram search results. You could also use the site search page for a comprehensive rummage through the archives.

• 1: Creative Force
• 2: Earth
• 3: Sprouting
• 4: Not Knowing
• 5: Waiting
• 6, Arguing
• 7: Army
• 8: Seeking Union
• 9: Small taming
• 10: Treading

• 11: Flow
• 12: Blocked
• 13: People in Harmony
• 14: Great Possession
• 15: Integrity
• 16: Enthusiasm
• 17: Following
• 18: Corruption
• 19: Nearing
• 20: Seeing

• 21: Biting Through
• 22: Beauty
• 23: Stripping Away
• 24: Returning
• 25: Not Entangled
• 26: Great Taming
• 29: Repeating Chasms
• 30: Clarity

• 31: Influence
• 32: Lasting
• 33: Retreat
• 34: Great Vigour
• 38: Opposition

• 42: Blessing
• 45: Gathering
• 47: Confined
• 48: Well
• 49: Radical Change

• 50: Vessel
• 54: Marrying Maiden
• 57: Penetrating
• 59: Dispersing

• 60: Articulating
• 61: Inner Truth
• 62: Small Overstepping

Hexagram reference chart

Upper trigram Lower trigram	Qian	Zhen	Kan	Gen	Kun	Xun	Li	Dui
Qian	1	34	5	26	11	9	14	43
Zhen	25	51	3	27	24	42	21	17
Kan	6	40	29	4	7	59	64	47
Gen	33	62	39	52	15	53	56	31
Kun	12	16	8	23	2	20	35	45
Xun	44	32	48	18	46	57	50	28
Li	13	55	63	22	36	37	30	49
Dui	10	54	60	41	19	61	38	58