Thursday, May 9, 2013

Trigrams

                   
         
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In one of the layers of symbols the I Ching projects attributes of personality and character onto the images of nature. These symbols also denote members of the archetypal family, body parts, direction and color association.

The I Ching is comprised of 64 situations, all derived from the combination of 2 lines, yang (whole)----and yin (opened)

--There are 4 combinations of the 2 lines. When the yin and yang lines are combined in sets of 3 they form the 8 trigrams. Each trigram is named for a force in nature and has other attributes associated with it. When the trigrams are combined in sets of 2 they from the 64 possible combinations that form the hexagrams.

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