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1. Relations between hexagrams.
King Wen's sequence
Multiple moving lines
Line-correspondences (jiao yao, fan yao, qian yao)

The Big Pattern
The Bagua as lay-out map

The structure of a hexagram page 1
Why do hexagrams look the way they do?

The structure of a hexagram:
meanings of line-places

  6. The top line has to do with spirit.
  5. The fifth line with organizing, leading, giving structure to things.
  4. The fourth line with decisions, finding the road, choices.
  3. The third line with emotions and evaluation.
  2. The second line with reactions, 'walking in the world', connections with other beings.
  1. The bottom line with reality, action, matter. Tangible things, the way one stands on the earth.

 

Wilhelm (page 360 in W-Baynes)
  6. is not active within the time, end, already withdrawn from the affairs of the time
  5. is the ruler, husband
  4. is the minister, wife
  3. is transitional
  2. is the official in the country, son, woman
  1. is not active within the time, beginning, not yet entered field of activity.

 

JingFang
  6. is the royal ancestral temple (ancestors of the emperor)
  5. is the Son of Heaven (emperor)
  4. is the feudal dukes or princes (all feudal princes, those who stood a step lower than the Emperor)
  3. is the three nobles (3 Gong) (ministers assisting the sovereign)
  2. is the senior official (Dafu) the highest noble of the court
  1. is the senior serviceman (administrator in service, lowest rank)

 

Body:
  6. is the top of the head, ears, horns of animal
  5. is the head or back of the neck, nose, mouth
  4. is the back or torso
  3. is the thigh, waist or groin
  2. is the calves and ankles
  1. is the foot, big toe, animal's tail

 

From Balkin*, page 50
  6. is wisdom and egoless contemplation
  5. is authority and rulership
  4. is social consciousness and altruism
  3. is ambition, striving, and individual endeavor
  2. is rational selfinterest
  1. is instinct and emotion

 

From Balkin, page 50
  6. is old age and death
  5. is maturity and culmination
  4. is middle age, career, and creation of a family
  3. is adolescence and transition to adulthood
  2. is childhood
  1. is birth and infancy

* Jack M. Balkin, "The laws of change: I Ching and the philosophy of life", 2002, ISBN 0-8052-4199-x www.schocken.com

 

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