![]() As the light returns in winter and spring, yang lines enter from below: hexagrams 24, 19, 11, 34, and 43. The summer solstice is marked by all yang lines in hexagram 1. The winter solstice is marked by all yin lines in hexagram 2. Twelve of the sixty-four hexagrams correspond to months of the year according to light in the northern hemisphere. A line in a Gua is also known as a "Yao" in Chinese. When the Moving Line is converted to its counterpart (that is, a Yin line is converted to a Yang line, or a Yang line is converted to a Yin line), a new Gua, the approached Gua, emerges. Whilst a Gua gives an initial understanding of the present situation, the Moving Line is used to obtain a deeper understanding of the present situation, by understanding the current stage that a person is at in a given situation, as well as a future potential situation. ☷ (坤) Kūn (Earth) pointing North, at the bottom of the circleĮarly Heaven Arrangement of the eight trigrams (Ba Gua).☶ (艮) Gèn (Mountain), pointing North-West.☵ (坎) Kǎn (Water) pointing West, at the right-hand-side of the circle.☳ (震) Zhèn (Thunder), pointing North-East.☲ (離) Lí (Flame or Fire) pointing East, on the left-hand-side of the circle.☱ (兌) Duì (Lake or Marsh), pointing South-East.☰ (乾) Qián (Heaven) pointing South, at the top of the circle.The use of octal numbers and yin-yang complementation is described in the chapter Octal Bagua.Ĭircular Arrangement (Early Heaven) įor the purpose of divination, the 8 trigrams may be arranged in a circle, and ordered as follows: The sum of the yang lines is then between 1 and 7, with zero corresponding to ☷. Each trigram can be read as an octal number with the top line corresponding to four when yang, the middle line to two when yang, and the bottom line as one when yang. Since 1703 when Leibniz related yin and yang to zero and one, binary numbers have been considered in connection with the I Ching. The order is also used when determining the moving line(s). The order of the lines is important when a hexagram is cast (written down) or read/interpreted. For example, line 1 of Zhen (Thunder) is a Yang line, and lines 2 and 3 of Zhen are Yin lines. The lines are read from bottom to top, and the bottom line is called line 1. For example, Qian (Heaven) is represented by 3 Yang lines, and Kun (Earth) is represented by 3 Yin lines. A Yin line is a broken line and a Yang line is an unbroken line. Each trigram is made up of 3 lines, and each line can either be a Yin line or a Yang line. Each hexagram is comprised of an upper trigram (as shown in the top row), and a lower trigram (as shown in the first column) of the table below:Įach hexagram is made up of two parts, namely an upper trigram and a lower trigram, which are also known as the outer gua and the inner gua respectively. The I Ching is also known as the Zhou I (pronounced as Zhou-Yi). I Ching (pronounced as Yi-Ching) is an ancient Chinese book that has been used for divination.
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