#I ching hexagram meanings manual

Many people have written about interpreting the Yi Jing, often by explaining the importance of the lines, trigrams, nuclear hexagrams, and the other permutations that arise when casting a hexagram, but I do not think anyone has clearly explained exactly what a hexagram is, which is the key to understanding any interpretation of the Yi Jing. We need to examine this problem if we truly want to understand the Yi Jing. Unfortunately, time has gone by, and we do not have this knowledge, this information that they transmitted orally and never put down in black and white. This must be the case, because their diviners knew this system perfectly, and did not need to explain the obvious.

#I ching hexagram meanings manual

It is as if the Chinese of the Han Dynasty did not need a userвЂ™s manual to use the book, that the mere words used to describe the situation presented in the hexagram were sufficient. These 64 figures, made up only of solid and broken lines, are the foundation of this book which has come to us through more than two millennia, but nowhere in the book is there an explanation of what these hexagrams really represent. The main elements of the Yi Jing, or I Ching, are its hexagrams.