The Book of Changes is one of the oldest philosophical texts. Over 4000 years ago, Chinese sages described the duality of our world using the binary code of Yin and Yang, capturing the dynamics of change in our lives through the succession of hexagrams.
Our life is possible due to the existence of opposites. If there is female, there must be male, darkness is followed by light, ascent is followed by descent, and without good, there cannot be evil. In the perfection of zero, there is no life. Life is movement, and movement is change.
Situations change each other, like day changes night, their change is beyond our control. If we accept what is happening and resonate with it, we are balanced and feel the fullness of life, otherwise we experience a sense of anxiety and dissatisfaction.
The Book of Changes is an associative text that helps us understand what exactly is bothering us in what is happening.
The original text of the Book of Changes is archaic and requires careful reading of the entire book. The author's interpretation of the Book of Changes, presented in Logos Divination, will help you better understand the meaning of the hexagram.
This is a diagram consisting of a combination of six broken (Yin) and unbroken (Yang) lines.
There can only be 64 such combinations. Each hexagram is a separate chapter of the Book of Changes, describing one of the possible situations we find ourselves in. Thus, according to the Book of Changes, everything that happens to us can be described using one of the hexagrams.
A hexagram is composed of two trigrams.
A trigram is a combination of three Yin and Yang lines. There are only eight possible combinations, and in the philosophy of the *Book of Changes*, each is associated with a direction of the compass.
The *Book of Changes* speaks of constant motion—how one of the 64 hexagrams (situations) flows into another.
Every situation also has its own internal dynamic of development.
Any situation begins with an idea emerging within us. This moment is symbolized by the first, bottom line.
As the idea grows, it reaches its fullest development, represented by the second line from the bottom. When the idea becomes persistent, it enters the stage of realization, of being brought into life. This need for manifestation is symbolized by the third line from the bottom.
Thus, the combination of the three lower lines—the lower trigram—describes the internal development of the situation.
Similarly, the upper trigram represents the dynamics of the idea’s expression in the external world—the external development of the situation.
The fourth line symbolizes the initial stage of outward manifestation. The fifth line marks the stage of the situation’s fullest development, and the sixth line represents overdevelopment, leading to the transition into the next hexagram.