Seeking the Spirit of The Book of Change by Zhongxian Wu

Author:Zhongxian Wu
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 2013-09-02T04:00:00+00:00

Jie Gua 解卦: Decode the Trigram

In my personal experience, the Yijing prediction system is still good enough to use in modern times. In fact, we use it in healing work, and people use it widely in their daily lives, such as to predict investments in the stock market. Sometimes, I still get phone calls from my friends in China asking for help with their important business decisions through my Yijing consultation.

Can you imagine how the ancient system might make predictions about modern life? Did ancient shamans know about modern objects?

Of course, ancient shamans did not know about modern objects, and they didn’t list any of the modern items when they talked about the symbolic meanings of the Bagua (Eight Trigrams). However, they did show us how to find the connection between an object and a trigram. The spirit of Yijing is the Yi (Change). The objects and topics of our life are quite different from ancient times, but we can still classify everything with one of the symbolic meanings of the Bagua if we truly understand the ancient system. Also, this knowledge of the symbolic meanings is a great foundation for becoming a predictor. This is the reason we should learn the symbolic meanings of the Bagua (Eight Trigrams).

Please remember that you never decode a trigram in a mechanical way in your Yijing consultation even though we have to talk about it mechanically at first. Are you ready to begin the process of trigram interpretation?

Resonate with the symbolic meanings. You should be very relaxed to allow your heart to resonate with the symbolic meanings of the trigram after you have made a trigram from the three-digit number. These resonated meanings should be very close to the answer to the question. Even if you intellectually try to find the symbolic meanings to the question, you should narrow down the information that is related to the question. Otherwise, you might get lost in the consultation because each trigram holds so much information. Here is an example from my Intensive Taiji Workshop on December 10, 2007:

Adriana gave the number 946. We divided it by 8 and got the remainder number 2. The Corresponding Trigram is Dui/Lake. Then I asked, “What is your question?” She said, “Should my grandmother have surgery on her bladder?” I answered right away, “Definitely, yes.”

Of course, the trigram Dui has many symbolic meanings: joy, mouth, shaman, young woman, lake, and more. But at that moment, the symbolic meanings of Dui that jumped into my mind were “break” and “knife” and this information definitely points to an answer for the surgery. We can intellectually analyze more information that will be related to the question about surgery on the bladder: Dui is in the west, which represents Western medicine/hospital in this case, so it will be good for her grandmother to go to the hospital for bladder surgery. Dui corresponds to the Metal element and the bladder is a Water element organ. Metal gives birth to Water; therefore, the surgery (Metal) will benefit the Water (bladder).

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