Posts Tagged ‘The book of changes’
I Ching
November 12th, 2009 | 
Author: Psychic
Author: Psychic
At first glance the I Ching seems like a great chowder of images. Familiar, ordinary ones: a bowl, spoon, window, wheel. Urban, pastoral, alleyways, cows. Bizarre, fairy tale. And there are snatches of strange stories imbedded in fortune cookie epigrams, common sense amid gibberish.
Beneath it all, sixty-four hexagrams. A geometrical reiteration of two elements whose values are the simple inversion of each other (open/closed, black/white, zero/one; broken/ unbroken; male/female [cable connections, plugs]. Responsive/ receptive). Pure, whole numbers. Each hexagram has a name, and from that name come images. From the images come implications and from those implications come potential actions. Each hexagram: the systematic, natural, patterned unfolding of a cycle in graphic form.
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