Once the counting
sticks or throwing coins, one must draw the hexagram will be the starting point
for your analysis.
After handling your chopsticks or cast your coins,
you are in possession of six figures. It is now time to give meaning to each,
and give birth before your eyes the hexagram gives "color" of your
drawing. It will not matter even analysis in this chapter, but simply
technical.
The
different patterns of Yin and Yang
Above all, we must know that the Yin and Yang
energies may each have two different polarities. When these energies are in
growth phase, they are called "young". When they are on decrease,
they are called "old" or "mutant". Just as the sun is bright
and warm morning (Yang rising, but decrease of Yin), which is softer and less
warm in the afternoon (but decrease the growth of Yang Yin). It therefore
speaks of "young yin" and "mutant Yin", the "Young
Yang" and "Yang mutant.
The figures
draw energy and Yin / Yang
If you started the pack:
- 6 = Yin mutant
- 8 = Young Yin
- 9 = Yang mutant
- 7 = Young Yang
If you counted the sticks:
- 25 = Yin mutant
- 17 = Young Yin
- 13 = Yang mutant
- 21 = Young Yang
Yang is transcribed with a continuous line.
Yin is transcribed with
broken line (or two small strokes separated).
Yang mutant is transcribed with a continuous line
in the center which we draw a small circle.
Yin mutant is transcribed by placing a cross
between two lines. (see illustration)
The lines are drawn one above the other, in order
of appearance of the figures upwards so. Draw your first line (Yin and Yang)
taking your first digit. Draw your second line above the first by taking your
second digit, and so on until the sixth draft.
Example: If you had 6 6 6 7 8 9 or 25 25 25 21 17
13, you get the picture located in the illustration below: The hexagram # 35
"Getting the big day." This is the hexagram of departure from which
will form new hexagrams.
The nuclear
hexagram: to get to the bottom of things
From the hexagram of departure, giving you the
"general temperature" of the situation, it is possible to go further
and seek the root causes underlying that led you to the situation time. For
this it uses the middle four lines of the hexagram starting. In our example, it
is therefore the 4 traits Yin, Yin Yang, Yin, upward forever. For the nuclear
deal, we take the first three traits Yin, Yin Yang, which placed the last three
Yin Yang, Yin. We obtained the hexagram 39 "Interference".
The
hexagrams derived: to go into detail
Each mutant line of the hexagram initial reports
that Yang and Yin are about to turn in the opposite polarity. Well you are
going to transfer these traits one by one. In our example (hexagram 35), you'll
transform the first feature Yin mutant by replacing Yang. You get a new
hexagram which gives you a light on a moment of your situation. In the case
here, the hexagram 21 "Biting and Uniting." Do this with each of the
mutant lines of the hexagram original.
The
hexagram of perspective of potential developments
The I Ching gives advice to always act. It
proposes strategies to adopt attitudes, understandings to assimilate. And here
you can see what openings, opportunities for changing your situation. For this,
we must transfer all the mutant traits simultaneously, for the hexagram
perspective. Attention this is not an oracle or a prediction. It is a vision of
the possible situation, from advice given in the initial hexagram; you can
choose not to follow. In our example, the mutation of mutant lines gives us the
hexagram No. 34 "Grand Force
The
hexagram opposite to be sure not to mislead
And finally, the I Ching offers us a kind of
comprehensive insurance: to be sure you understand the situation as detailed in
all previous hexagrams, he proposes to reverse all the features of the original
hexagram in order to achieve its opposite. And by contrast, you get what your
situation is not! In our example, we like the opposite hexagram No. 5
"Wait" (which at first sight is the opposite of "Getting to
light").
You are equipped with keys to open the first door
of the Yi Jing. Just cause you now, never to encounter technical difficulties.
As for the analysis, we repeat, it is best to consult a teacher or an
experienced person before launching into a solo adventure.