Keywords: With “heads” = 3, and “tails” = 2, three coins were thrown six times: _____2+2+3 = 7, Undivided Line (Young, or Unchanging, Yang) _____3+3+3 = 9, Undivided Line (Old, or Changing, Yang) _____3+3+3 = 9, Undivided Line (Old, or Changing, Yang) _____2+2+3 = 7, Undivided Line (Young, or Unchanging, Yang) _____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 7/9/9 (Qian/Heaven transforming into Zhen/Quake) under the trigram 7/7/8 (Dui/Lake), and the resultant two hexagrams, displayed above. Chinese renderings from the translation by John Minford. |