Earlier this month at the request of Kim Gould, I posted a discussion about Hexagrams 63, After Completion and the issue of why did it come before Hexagram 64, Before Completion. I received a comment from Luis Andrade in which he said, “It can be argued ‘why then 64 isn’t the first hex in the sequence?’ Because 64, in a sense, represents primordial chaos. But it isn’t a linear concept. It is circular. When the wheel continues turning, it starts with the seeds of a new order in the form of Heaven and Earth hexagrams.”
Then when Luis said that he would love to see what I would create for a circular graphic I took his comment as a challenge and created such a diagram of the Hexagrams. Looking at them that way makes a lot of sense to my visual mind.
I remember seeing such a diagram somewhere on the Internet and thought I would find it. But I didn’t. So I’m posting the one I created. I turned in into a poster that can be bought at Zazzle in various sizes. If you click on the image here it will take you to the page where you see it more closely.
Thanks Luis.
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Hi Adele,
Beautiful graphic! Well done indeed. I should find the time to comment more here and wait for more visual results such as this one…
Thank you.
Best wishes.
L
Thanks Luis,
I’m working on a bunch of things. I’m not very linear myself so while I appear not to be doing anything for a while, it is because I’m moving around my own circle and then all of a sudden they get “born.” More stuff soon.
Adele
.-= Adele´s last blog ..Circular Chart of I Ching Hexagrams =-.
Hi Adele,
Lovely circle of the King Wen Sequence. Though its weld point at hex 64/hex 1 is a bit of a jump.
An even more insightful hexagram wheel comes with the 60 hexagrams from hex 3 to hex 62 for a total of 360 lines.
Then that hexagram wheel has four cardinal points representing Heaven and Earth in the vertical dimension and hex 63 and hex 64 in the horizontal.
A simpler explanation for hex 63 After C or The Morning After
and hex 64 or Eve is that Yang lines are odd numbers and Yin lines are even numbers. The hexagram with its Yin and Yang lines in the even and odd places (first line odd number thus Yang and 6th line even thus Yin) is hex 63. Those in their exactly opposite places, first line Yin and 6th line Yang is hex 64.
My fluxtome page on my website explains the entire I Ching that simply.
Regards,
Frank
Dr. Frank,
Thanks for your response. I like the idea of having 360 lines – Oh O – do I now have to make another chart? Maybe. I will check out your site.
Adele
What a great poster. First time I have been to your blog and glad I did. I dabbled with the I Ching many years back and reading this has made me want to get out my books again. Thanks!
.-= 67 Not Out (Mike Perry)´s last blog ..A Double Or A Doppelganger Coincidence =-.
Hi Mike,
Thanks for the comment and please do come back. I’m about to post a free PDF I Ching Record Book for you to use. Soon I hope. Everything takes me a lot longer to do than I think it will.
Adele
Adele, what a beautiful mandala! My eye was drawn right in. The sense of blue light radiating outward is mesmerizing
I like the circular design — it makes intrinsic sense. I often consider “mini-sequences” during a reading … and this circle implies beginnings, endings, and all in between — from any point. Beautiful.
.-= Jaliya´s last blog ..Why I love the I Ching =-.
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