I Ching Hexagrams
Their names and divination meanings
I Ching is one of the oldest books of Ancient China. It contains 64 hexagrams and texts on how to understand them in the case of divination. You find links to all of the hexagrams and their divinatory texts below.
Hexa in hexagram means six, which refers to the six lines that form a hexagram. Each of these lines can be solid or broken. That means there are 2
6 = 64 possible combinations of lines into hexagrams. In I Ching, each hexagram has its own particular meaning in divination. So do the lines of it. They represent yin and yang, the basic polarities of Chinese cosmology and philosophy.
The I Ching hexagrams have their own symbolic meanings, but these stem from the two trigrams of which they consist. A trigram is a combination of three lines that can either be whole or broken in two. That makes a total of eight possible trigrams (2 x 2 x 2). Each trigram represents a basic natural force. The meaning of a hexagram is decided by what two trigrams are paired in it, one above the other. For more about the eight trigrams, click the header.
The 64 I Ching Hexagrams
An I Ching hexagram is composed of two trigrams. Each of the 64 hexagrams has its own name, meaning, and divinatory text. Here they all are, in the traditional order. Click on the image of an I Ching hexagram to get to its webpage.
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