It’s too long a story to tell… In short, I’m online because of a good friend, Ken. And on Facebook I share with my friends in graphics and words; this month I’ve an 37 visuals series that triple counterpoints 3 themes (leaving home; I Ching; Paṭikkūlamanasikāra).

This is how I’ve transformed your graph (it will not be released to my friends until 28 days from now) you and your readers are the first to see:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=239733&l=a202d97015&id=1605468234

the link is universally open to all (regardless if you are a Facebook member or no)

best regards,
Will

Satora

Patricia

The hexagram diagram is conceptually subdivided into two three-line arrangements called trigrams (卦 guà). There are 23, hence 8, possible trigrams. The traditional view was that the hexagrams were a later development and resulted from combining the two trigrams. However, in the earliest relevant archaeological evidence, groups of numerical symbols on many Western Zhou bronzes and a very few Shang oracle bones, such groups already usually appear in sets of six. A few have been found in sets of three numbers, but these are somewhat later. Note also that these numerical sets greatly predate the groups of broken and unbroken lines, leading modern scholars to doubt the mythical early attributions of the hexagram system.[3]

Each hexagram represents a description of a state or process. When a hexagram is cast using one of the traditional processes of divination with I Ching, each of the yin or yang lines will be indicated as either moving (that is, changing), or fixed (that is, unchanging). Moving (also sometimes called “old”, or “unstable”) lines will change to their opposites, that is “young” lines of the other type — old yang becoming young yin, and old yin becoming young yang.

The oldest method for casting the hexagrams, using yarrow stalks, is a biased random number generator, so the possible answers are not equiprobable. While the probability of getting either yin or yang is equal, the probability of getting old yang is three times greater than old yin.

The yarrow stalk method was gradually replaced during the Han Dynasty by the three coins method. Using this method the imbalance in generating old yin and old yang was eliminated. There is no theoretical basis for indicating what should be the optimal probability basis of the old lines versus the young lines. Of course, the whole idea behind this system of divination is that the oracle will select the appropriate answer, regardless of the probabilities.

There have been several arrangements of the trigrams and hexagrams over the ages. The bā gùa is a circular arrangement of the trigrams, traditionally printed on a mirror, or disk. According to legend, Fu Hsi found the bā gùa on the scales of a tortoise’s back. They function rather like a magic square, with the four axes summing to the same value (e.g., using 0 and 1 to represent yin and yang, 000 + 111 = 111, 101 + 010 = 111, etc.).

Sorry a bit long imfo – but I love the trigrams and I have a bagua -of these energy lines in a tattoo on my lower back …it represents all areas of life ,elements ..Blessings Tania

Very interesting Mandala. It looks like the Shao Yung’s Old Family Mandala. The book of changes we know as the I Ching is based on the the Chou I or the Book of the Chou Dynasty.

Filika,

Satora

My beautiful Thelma,

Waiting for the day I could use the book, I found an alternative. Though I don’t go often, to be true. I’ve to write, and for now, I’m following here.
But you could go to that page, I found the best for IChing in the web. http://www.afpc.asso.fr/wengu/wg/wengu.php?lang=fr&l=Yijing&no=0

Love for all.