Totals

6 or 7 or 8 or 9

*** Second Hexagram Line Pattern (if indicated)

The Analogos revised-version of the I Ching came about as an attempt to make the ancient source of wisdom more accessible in terms of acquiring a better understanding: of the inter-relations between and among its sixty-four sites; of the underlying sequence in which these have come down to the present; and of the ability of users to remember the trigrams and their coded interpretations.

The Analogos version is new in several ways:

1

New icon symbols were developed for the eight trigrams so that they could be remembered; further, they have been set up as two parallel sets of four. One set, termed the Land Forms, are asymmetrical in design and are sequenced as Mountain, Wind, Lightening, and Lake; These are parallel to the second set of trigrams, termed the Trans Forms, which are symmetrical in design and are sequenced as Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. Land Forms are typically more unstable and changeable, while Trans Forms tend to be more stable and reliable in the face of change. These radical shifts in order and design have shown in practice to make it a great deal easier to grasp and remember the dynamics of the I Ching as a complex, inter-layered, and rich repository of meanings. As such it toys with the potential of offering a holistic, world view—while at the same time seeming to encompass both the infinite and the finite in its scope and depth.

2

The sequential order of the hexagrams was rearranged so that the first quadrant (the first sixteen sites) represented all the possibilities of Land Form trigrams stacked above Land Forms. As these follow the order of Mountain, Wind, Lightening, and Lake, first above Mountain, then above Wind, and then above Lightening, and then above Lake, the order is easy to remember. The second quadrant consists of all the similar sixteen possibilities that can occur if the Trans Forms are stacked above the Land Forms. Similarly, the third quadrant consists of all the similar sixteen possibilities that can occur if the Land Forms are stacked above the Trans Forms. Finally, the last quadrant is constituted by the possible versions of the Trans Form trigrams being placed above Trans Forms. With these changes in place, the sequential order loses it apparent traditional randomness and can be more easily remembered and is therefore more accessible and enriched as a source of wisdom.

3

When the new sequential order was vitalized by means of the Analogos concept map, it yielded an amazing and unexpected find. The dialogue between the two paradigms of 64 sites revealed a symbiotic pattern; the 64 sites each took on new inter-related meanings as they adopted the inner/outer, the substance/structure, and the finite/infinite dynamics of the Analogos. It was this construct that enabled the positing of a new developmental sequence; the new numbering system suggested an enriched new narrative. This led to the emergence of the epic poem.

4

The new narrative yielded an epic poem—one that not only unveils the new pattern of the Analogos developmentally, but also a new sense of the coded life that has always existed as an alternative sub-text of the I Ching.

All of the above shifts have resulted in an amazing revelation of a previously hidden order in the I Ching, of the depth of its mysteries, as yet probably barely touched upon, and of a new patterned order that arguably makes a narrative journey into the I Ching more accessible, more comprehensible, and at the same time more respected as a rich repository of wisdom and the ineffable.

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