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This hexagram is linked with the twelfth month (January-February), when after the winter solstice, the light power begins to ascend again. THE JUDGMENT APPROACH has supreme success. Perseverance furthers. When the eighth month comes, There will be misfortune. The hexagram as a whole points to a time of joyous, hopeful progress.
Hexagram 3 is named 屯 (zhūn), "Sprouting". Other variations include "difficulty at the beginning", "gathering support", and "hoarding". The meaning of "屯" is collect, store up, stingy, and stationing troops.
Combining these two different kinds of line in groups of six, you get 64 unique ‘stacks’, the hexagrams. To consult the I Ching, you cast six lines, building a hexagram from the bottom up. Each hexagram describes a way that energy moves, gives you an idea what to expect from the situation, and how best to act within it.
Quick Reference to Hexagrams by Component Trigrams. Introduction to this Online Edition. Preface. Introduction, Chapter 1. Introduction, Chapter 2. Introduction, Chapter 3. Plate 1. Hexagram Order by King Wan. Plate 2, Figure 1. Hexagram Order by Fu Hsi. Plate 2, Figure 2. The Trigrams Distinguished by Yin and Yang. Plate 3, Figure 1.
The I Ching Watch: Introduction to the I Ching "Changes is a book from which one may not hold aloof. Its tao is forever changing; alteration, movement without rest. Flowing through the six empty places; rising and sinking without fixed law, Firm and yielding transform each other.
I Ching fortune teller in Japan, 1914. I Ching divination is a form of cleromancy applied to the I Ching.The text of the I Ching consists of sixty-four hexagrams: six-line figures of yin (broken) or yang (solid) lines, and commentaries on them.
Click the header to read more about the eight trigrams that are combined into the 64 hexagrams. The 64 I Ching Hexagrams An I Ching hexagram is composed of two trigrams. Each of the 64 hexagrams has its own name, meaning, and divinatory text. Here they all are, in the traditional order. Click on the image of an I Ching hexagram to get to its ...
