Which came first: trigrams or hexagrams?
I started a thread about this at the I Ching Community, and people have contributed some excellent information and ideas. Follow the link at the top of the page to get to the beginning of the discussion.
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Free online tarot readings
For anyone who uses them, ‘Tarot Doug’ has written a detailed review of 10 sites with free online tarot readings.
E-Jing-A-Ling Thing Hexagrams
E-Jing-A-Ling Thing Hexagrams – or ‘The hexagrams as you have (without doubt) never seen them before.’ In amongst the barking lunacy are insights. Ever conceived of hexagram 12 as ‘the Cabbage’? Also this page finally tells you what the answer is when a coin lands on its side: the Pi… Read more »E-Jing-A-Ling Thing Hexagrams
The salient – from Harmen
The salient – Harmen’s Dagboek More from Harmen! This time Hexagram 58 gets the treatment, line by line, and once again we’re invited to rethink what we thought we knew.
I Ching Community: What is a Universal Truth
JerryD thought to ask the I Ching, ‘What is a Universal Truth?’ (capital U, capital T) Yi answered with Hexagram 13, unchanging: People in Harmony. Well, different people have different takes on this, but it sounds to me as though Yi’s saying that a ‘Universal Truth’ is just whatever people… Read more »I Ching Community: What is a Universal Truth
A simpler take on ‘pattern of change’ hexagrams
James Lewis describes what I know as the yang, ‘inspiring’ pattern of change as the Key Hexagram: If you consider that lines that do not change are yin, and that lines that do change are yang, then you can write down a third hexagram. This is what I call the… Read more »A simpler take on ‘pattern of change’ hexagrams
Hexagram 32 and Laozi
I first learned from Nina Correa of Your Dao De Jing that in the first lines of the Daodejing –
‘The dao that can be told of is not the constant dao,
The name that can be named is not the constant name’
– the word ‘constant’ in the Mawangdui version is heng – the name of Hexagram 32.