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Hexagram 52:Above Ken Keeping Still, Mountain   Below Ken Keeping Still, Mountain The image of this hexagram is the mountain, the youngest son of heaven and earth. The male principle is at the top because it strives upward by nature; the female principle is below, since the direction of its… Continue Reading IChing hexagram 52 explained: Keeping Still, Mountain

Hexagram 50: Above Li the Clinging, Fire   Below Sun the Gentle, Wind The six lines construct the image of Ting, The Caldron; at the bottom are the legs, over them the belly, then come the ears (handles), and at the top the carrying rings. At the same time, the… Continue Reading IChing Hexagram 50 The Caldron:Meaning and Interpretation

Hexagram 38 – K’uei / Opposition : Above Li the Clinging, Flame.  Below Tui the Joyous, Lake This hexagram is composed of the trigram Li above, i.e., flame, which burns upward, and Tui below, i.e., the lake, which seeps downward. These two movements are indirect contrast. Furthermore, Li is the… Continue Reading IChing Hexagram 38 Opposition:Meaning and Interpretation

I Ching Hexagram 37：Above Sun the Gentle, Wind   Below Li the Clinging, Fire. The hexagram represents the laws obtaining within the family. The strong line at the top represents the father, the lowest the son. The strong line in the fifth place represents the husband, the yielding second line… Continue Reading Exploring IChing Hexagram 37: The Family (The Clan)

Hexagram 28:Above Tui the Joyous, Lake. Below Sun the Gentle, Wind, Wood This hexagram consists of four strong lines inside and two weak lines outside. When the strong are outside and the weak inside, all is well and there is nothing out of balance, nothing extraordinary in the situation. Here,… Continue Reading IChing Hexagram 28 meaning: Preponderance of the Great

Hexagram 21: Above Li the Clinging, Fire   Below Chen the Arousing, Thunder This hexagram represents an open mouth hexagram 27 with an obstruction (in the fourth place) between the teeth. As a result the lips cannot meet. To bring them together one must bite energetically through the obstacle. Since… Continue Reading IChing Hexagram 21-Biting Through:Meaning and Interpretation

Hexagram 20 ：Above Sun the Gentle, Wind.   Below K’un the Receptive, Earth A slight variation of tonal stress gives the Chinese name for this hexagram a double meaning. It means both contemplating and being seen, in the sense of being an example. These ideas are suggested by the fact that… Continue Reading IChing Hexagram 20 meaning: Contemplation (View)

Hexagram 18：Above Ken Keeping Still, Mountain   Below Sun the Gentle, Wind The Chinese character ku represents a bowl in whose contents worms are breeding. This means decay. It is come about because the gentle indifference in the lower trigram has come together with the rigid inertia of the upper,… Continue Reading Iching 18 meaning explained: Work on what has been spoiled

IChing Hexagram 15：Above K’un the Receptive, Earth   Below Ken Keeping Still, Mountain This hexagram is made up of the trigrams Ken, Keeping Still, mountain, and K’un. The mountain is the youngest son of the Creative, the representative of heaven and earth. It dispenses the blessings of heaven, the clouds… Continue Reading IChing hexagram 15 divination: Modesty explained

IChing Hexagram 13：Above Ch’ien the Creative, Heaven .  Below Li the Clinging, Flame The image of the upper trigram Ch’ien is heaven, and that of the lower, Li, is flame. It is the nature of fire to flame up to the heaven. This gives the idea of fellowship. It is… Continue Reading IChing Hexagram Meanings: hexagram 13- Fellowship with Men