Keywords: blackandwhite monochrome text black and white With "heads" = 3, and "tails" = 2, three coins were thrown six times: -- 2+2+3 = 7, Undivided Line (Young, or Unchanging, Yang) -- 3+3+2 = 8, Divided Line (Young, or Unchanging, Yin) -- 2+2+3 = 7, Undivided Line (Young, or Unchanging, Yang) -- 2+2+2 = 6, Divided Line (Old, or Changing, Yin) -- 2+2+3 = 7, Undivided Line (Young, or Unchanging, Yang) -- 3+3+2 = 8, Divided Line (Young, or Unchanging, Yin) Building up from the bottom space, this yields the trigram 7/8/7 (Li/Fire) under the trigram 6/7/8 (Kan/Abyss, transforming into Dui/Lake), and the resultant two hexagrams shown above. Chinese renderings taken from John Minford's I Ching translation. With "heads" = 3, and "tails" = 2, three coins were thrown six times: -- 2+2+3 = 7, Undivided Line (Young, or Unchanging, Yang) -- 3+3+2 = 8, Divided Line (Young, or Unchanging, Yin) -- 2+2+3 = 7, Undivided Line (Young, or Unchanging, Yang) -- 2+2+2 = 6, Divided Line (Old, or Changing, Yin) -- 2+2+3 = 7, Undivided Line (Young, or Unchanging, Yang) -- 3+3+2 = 8, Divided Line (Young, or Unchanging, Yin) Building up from the bottom space, this yields the trigram 7/8/7 (Li/Fire) under the trigram 6/7/8 (Kan/Abyss, transforming into Dui/Lake), and the resultant two hexagrams shown above. Chinese renderings taken from John Minford's I Ching translation. |