5 Hs? Waiting (Nourishment) Kan, the abysmal, water is over Chien, the creative, heaven. ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅▅▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅▅▅▅ ▅▅▅▅▅ ▅▅▅▅▅ ALL BEINGS have need of nourishment from above. But the gift of food comes in its own t...
6 Sung: Conflict Chien, the creative, heaven is over Kan, the abysmal, water. ▅▅▅▅▅ ▅▅▅▅▅ ▅▅▅▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅▅▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ THE UPPER TRIGRAM, whose image is heaven, has an upward movement; the lower trigram, water, in acc...
3 Chun: Difficulty at the Beginning Kan, the abysmal, water is over Cheng, the arousing, thunder. ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅▅▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅▅▅▅ THE NAME of the hexagram, Chun, really connotes a blade of grass pushing against...
4 Meng: Youthful Folly Ken, keeping still, mountain is over Kan, the abysmal, water. ▅▅▅▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅▅▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ IN THIS HEXAGRAM we\'re reminded of youth and folly in two different ways. The image of the u...
The lines Six at the beginning [yin at bottom] means: When there is hoarfrost underfoot, Solid ice is not far off. JUST AS the light-giving power represents life, so the dark power, the shadowy, represents death. When the first hoarfrost co...
The lines Nine at the beginning [yang at bottom] means: Hidden dragon. Do not act. IN CHINA the dragon has a meaning altogether different from that given it in the Western world. The dragon is a symbol of the electrically charged, dynamic,...
7 Shih: The Army Kun, the receptive, earth is over Kan, the abysmal, water. ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅▅▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ THIS HEXAGRAM is made up of the trigrams Kan, water, and Kun, earth, and thus it symbolises the ground...
18 Ku: Work on what has been spoiled [ Decay ] Ken: keeping still, mountain is over Sun, the gentle, wind. ▅▅▅▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅▅▅▅ ▅▅▅▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ The Chinese character ku represents a bowl in whose contents worms are...
17 Sui: Following Tui, the joyous, lake is over Cheng, the arousing, thunder. ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅▅▅▅ ▅▅▅▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅▅▅▅ The trigram Tui, the Joyous, whose attribute is gladness, is above; Cheng, the Arousing, which has...
12 Pi: Standstill [Stagnation] Chien, the creative, heaven is over Kun, the receptive, earth. ▅▅▅▅▅ ▅▅▅▅▅ ▅▅▅▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ This hexagram is the opposite of the preceding one. Heaven is above, drawing farthe...
