IC+ - Line Position Meanings: The I Ching as a Language

Line Position Meanings : The I Ching as a Language

(Copyright © 2000-2005 C. J. Lofting)

Introduction

Since the I Ching is a form of language, in that it describes 'all there is', so we realise that it cannot map its 64 hexagrams (or 4096 dodecagrams) to 'all there is' in a 1:1 format - it must predominately use analogy and metaphor to describe 'all there is'.

The finite nature of the I Ching means that as a language so all parts are 'entangled' with all other parts to make-up the whole. In this entanglement, each hexagram will contribute to expressiveness of any other hexagram, and this expressiveness is only describable by analogy to the characteristics of some other hexagram.

In other words, since the I Ching is supposed to reveal 'all there is', so it should be able to include itself in that revelation. Here we show how it does that and how we can extract the definition of a hexagram through the associations with all of the other hexagrams in the I Ching.

The notion of the IC as a language takes us into the concepts of hexagrams representing gerunds - and so the IC is a book of '-ings' where local context collapses the 'ing-ness' into a focus on a thing (noun : A loft) or relationship (verb : TO loft). This focus in ing-ness is brought out in the additional names I have given the hexagrams besides just using the names derived in R. Wilhelm's popular text.

Line Positions

In the Book of Changes we find that we can determine the basic characteristics of a line positions or group of line positions by setting a particular line in a position to yin and all others to yang and visa versa.

What this does is give us two semantic poles of a line position(s). For example, the base position in a hexagram is interpreted as a beginning, a start. When we take the hexagram structure and make all lines yin other than the base line we have hexagram 24. When we do this by making all lines yang other than the base line we get hexagram 44.

What this 'says' is that the base line is 'ruled' by a semantic influence found in the hexagram 44/24 pair. These hexagrams deal with transitions, 44 with persuasion, seduction and so an attraction to the 'dark' side (distractions caused by OTHERS), and 24 with SELF-distractions and an attraction to the 'light' side and a developing 'true' path.

We also find a duality in meanings derived in the above manner. For example. for hexagram 01, pure yang, hexagram 28 describes by analogy the raw context from which hexagram 01 emerged, i.e. 'too much yang, excess'. At the other end of the scale hexagram 28 also describes by analogy going beyond the peak of hexagram 01, the ability to Transcend - to go beyond, to exceed.

To detect the positive, explicit, BASE qualities of line positions, just use hexagram 02 as the template, the container of POTENTIALS and make each line ‘yang’ and so derive an ACTUAL. For example, we have the top line as yang associated with 23 and reflecting the high priest, - mapping the top line, IN GENERAL, to the ‘sage’.

The fifth line as yang gives us hexagram 08 – the focus on unifying but in a ‘passive’ format – this is the action of the king in that people come to the court rather than the court going out to them.

The fourth line as yang give us hexagram 16 – the focus on being a planner, an ‘enthusiast’ for someone/something; as reflected in the actions of a minister ‘close to’ the king.

The third line as yang gives us hexagram 15 – the focus on the leveller, keeping things close to the words, no exaggerations, no highs, no lows, just the ‘facts’. Note here that, although we are being ‘modest’, we have the power to enforce modesty, the power to ‘level’, to ‘even things out’, and as such reflect line 3 as a position of some ‘authority’ ;-)

The second line gives us hexagram 07 – a focus on establishing uniformity (and so a link to 08 and line 5)

The first line gives us hexagram 24 – a focus on ‘coming back to’, and so ‘entering’ or ‘beginning’ a journey.

IOW, going through hexagram 02, where all is ‘passive’, and then exaggerating each line, gives you the general quality of that line throughout the IC.

Formally, each line, or combination of, is a representation of, or a set of, qualities. The representation is created by the use of recursion of yin/yang to create a hexagram. Thus each line represents a quality extracted from powers of 2. Look at it as exponentiation reflecting the application of yin/yang to a moment, with each moment embedded in a context set by the previous.

Six lines of yin/yang reflect 2⁶ possible expressions, where 2⁶ = 64. In this building we move from general to particular, from worker to sage, or so the 'tradition' goes - this is but half the story if you include a focus on going 'down' once you are at the top.

The line POSITIONS form into representations of these 64 qualities - they reflect the SAME process in deriving the hexagrams as wholes, where pure potential is in 000000 and actualisation is in 'filling' the slots - and there are 63 possible ways to fill the slots of 000000, giving us in total 64 hexagrams. Zoom-in to a single hexagram and the SAME principle applies, there are 64 line positions to group (regardless of their content).

X-ness & XOR-ing

In the octet material there is reference to such terms as 'skeletal form' and '27-ness' of a hexagram. These references are to the application of the XOR-operator to EACH hexagram to derive more details of its PARTS nature - and so more details on STRUCTURE.

Due to the manner in which the I Ching is represented, as fixed or broken lines or as 'bit' sequences of 0s and 1s, so we are able to extract finer details of a hexagram, what contributes to its overall meaning.

Due to the manner in which the structures of the I Ching are formed, so each hexagram is in fact made-up of its own nature plus the input of all of the other hexagrams. As such, we can consider each hexagram and coming with a 'genetic code' sequence, or its 'spectrum', made up of the expressions of other hexagrams THROUGH the particular hexagram under consideration.

What is reflected here is the influence of CONTEXT on the expression of some ARCHETYPE through that context.

For example, we find that the nature of hexagram 27 is in the skeletal form of 'something' and the focus on being discerning about how we add 'meat and muscle' to that skeleton. Thus, through using the XOR operator to apply 27 to any other hexagram we will bring out the skeletal form of that hexagram. For example, we apply 27 XOR 01 we will get, by analogy to another hexagram, the description of 01s skeletal form, and we find it is in hexagram 28; hexagram 28 covers the focus on 'excess' such that the focus here is on 01s skeletal form being described as 'too much yang'. (given this skeletal form, we can exaggerate it to reflect its fullest form, here captured in hexagram 28s focus on excess in the form of going the extra distance, going beyond what is normally required)

We can in fact do this sort of 'extraction' to ALL hexagrams where we can obtain for each hexagram as sequence of 64 hexagrams describing the expression of all of the archetypes THROUGH each hexagram serving as a description of context - IOW we extract a hexagram's spectrum.

The XOR operator works where, given x and y as line values (0 = yin, 1 = yang) we create a third representation based on rules derived from this 'truth' table:

X	Y	X XOR Y
0	0	0
0	1	1
1	0	1
1	1	0

Thus, XOR-ing hexagram 27 with hexagram 01 gives us hexagram 28:

Hexagram 27	Hexagram 01	27 XOR 01 = Result - Hexagram 28
(line 6) 1	1	0
(line 5) 0	1	1
(line 4) 0	1	1
(line 3) 0	1	1
(line 2) 0	1	1
(line 1) 1	1	0

Put ANY hexagram in the first column and the XOR process will describe, by reference to some other hexagram, the expression of that first hexagram 'through' the middle hexagram - and so an expression of a part. - and so the 27-ness of 01 is described by analogy to the generic qualities of hexagram 28. This information is given in the second page for each hexagram

When we XOR the controlling hexagram with a particular hexagram as context, the one we are analysing, we get a description of the controlling-hexagram's expression THROUGH this hexagram - it is like genetics where the gene for eye colour, and so genotype, is expressed in a context (hexagram) as phenotype. What this allows us to do is see 'inside' a hexagram - what makes it 'tick' - just as our genetic code make us 'tick'.

The examples of first lot of associations given below are applied in each hexagram page 2 in ICPlus. The second and third lot of associations cover the expressions of a hexagram in all others, both in its 'inside', genetic code, format, and in its 'temporal' format (AND nature as compared to XOR nature).

Line1 [01] (24) : How did this hexagram 'start', express 'beginning'?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 24 to give the particular form of expression>

Line 2 [02] (07) : How does this hexagram express uniformity, establishment of?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 07 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 1&2 [03] (19) : How does this hexagram express approaching the 'high'; defer to the 'low'?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 19 to give the particular form of expression>

Line 3 [04] (15) : How does this hexagram level things out, focus on fairness, express 'modesty'?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 15 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 1&3 [05] (36) : How does this hexagram protect its 'light'?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 36 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 2&3 [06] (46) : How does this hexagram become more entangled with something/someone?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 46 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 1&2&3 [07] (11) : How does this hexagram balance/harmonise, mediate?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 11 to give the particular form of expression>

Line 4 [08] (16) : How does this hexagram express foresight/planning?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 16 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 1&4 [09] (51) : How does this hexagram express surprise, enlightenment, shock?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 51 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 2&4 [10] (40) : How does this hexagram express tension release through relaxing structure?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 40 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 1&2&4 [11] (54) : How does this hexagram expend early energy, imaturity?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 54 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 3&4 [12] (62) : How does this hexagram express overacting to establish unconditional loyalty?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 62 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 1&3&4 [13] (55) : How does this hexagram deal with abundance/overflowing?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 55 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 2&3&4 [14] (32) : How does this hexagram express commitment?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 32 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 1&2&3&4 [15] (34) : How does this hexagram actively invigorate others?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 34 to give the particular form of expression>

Line 5 [16] (08) : How does this hexagram passively attract?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 08 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 1&5 [17] (03) : How does this hexagram 'sprout'?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 03 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 2&5 [18] (29) : How does this hexagram assert containment/control?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 29 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 1&2&5 [19] (60) : How does this hexagram standardise?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 60 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 3&5 [20] (39) : How does this hexagram obstruct, go against, stand up to, the flow?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 39 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 1&3&5 [21] (63) : How does this hexagram complete, 'get it right'?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 63 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 2&3&5 [22] (48) : Where does this hexagram get its nutrition, what sustains it, keeps it going?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 48 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 1&2&3&5 [23] (05) : How does this hexagram wait for opportunity to come?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 05 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 4&5 [24] (45) : How does this hexagram celebrate its 'faith'?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 45 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 1&4&5 [25] (17) : How does this hexagram find a faith? What is its faith?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 17 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 2&4&5 [26] (47) : How does this hexagram integrate with the context, be it by choice or otherwise?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 47 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 1&2&4&5 [27] (58) : How does this hexagram express itself intensely, self-reflect?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 58 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 3&4&5 [28] (31) : How does this hexagram 'woo', express restrained enticement ?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 31 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 1&3&4&5 [29] (49) : How does this hexagram reveal, unmask?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 49 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 2&3&4&5 [30] (28) : How does this hexagram express excess, go beyond what is required?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 28 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 1&2&3&4&5 [31] (43) : How does this hexagram 'seed', spread the word?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 43 to give the particular form of expression>

Line 6 [32] (23) : How does this hexagram 'housekeep', clear chaff to bring out the wheat?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 23 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 1&6 [33] (27) : What is the basic, skelatal form of this hexagram, the clay used to structure it?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 27 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 2&6 [34] (04) : How does this hexagram learn social skills?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 04 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 1&2&6 [35] (41) : How does this hexagram achieve clarity, concentration, distillation?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 41 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 3&6 [36] (52) : How does this hexagram express blocking, discernment?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 52 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 1&3&6 [37] (22) : What does this hexagram look like, how does it present itself to the outside?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 22 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 2&3&6 [38] (18) : How does this hexagram correct corruption, express that correction?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 18 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 1&2&3&6 [39] (26) : How does this hexagram express 'holding firm' to traditions?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 26 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 4&6 [40] (35) : How does this hexagram bring something into the 'light'?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 35 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 1&4&6 [41] (21) : How does this hexagram resolve problems?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 21 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 2&4&6 [42] (64) : How does this hexagram remain 'open', mis-sequence?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 64 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 1&2&4&6 [43] (38) : How does this hexagram 'mirror', deal with opposition?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 38 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 3&4&6 [44] (56) : How does this hexagram demonstrate conditional loyalty; loyalty at a distance?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 56 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 1&3&4&6 [45] (30) : How does this hexagram express guidance/direction setting?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 30 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 2&3&4&6 [46] (50) : How does this hexagram express conversion of the raw to the cooked, transformation?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 50 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 1&2&3&4&6 [47] (14) : How does this hexagram manage from the centre?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 14 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 5&6 [48] (20) : How does this hexagram elicit admiration and so invigorate others passively?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 20 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 1&5&6 [49] (42) : How does this hexagram reflect augmentation?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 42 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 2&5&6 [50] (59) : How does this hexagram make things clear, dispell illusions?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 59 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 1&2&5&6 [51] (61) : How does this hexagram express empathy?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 61 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 3&5&6 [52] (53) : How does this hexagram express gradual development, maturity?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 53 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 1&3&5&6 [53] (37) : How does this hexagram reflect rigid structure as tension release?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 37 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 2&3&5&6 [54] (57) : How does this hexagram cultivate and become influencial?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 57 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 1&2&3&5&6 [55] (09) : How does this hexagram express making small gains to be noticed?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 09 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 4&5&6 [56] (12) : How does this hexagram neutralise attacks on its core beliefs?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 12 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 1&4&5&6 [57] (25) : How does this hexagram stand up to say its piece without considering consequences?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 25 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 2&4&5&6 [58] (06) : How does this hexagram compromise, meet half way?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 06 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 1&2&4&5&6 [59] (10) : How does this hexagram traverse a path carefully?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 10 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 3&4&5&6 [60] (33) : How does this hexagram draw-in its enemies, competitively entice?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 33 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 1&3&4&5&6 [61] (13) : How does this hexagram express association with the likeminded?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 13 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 2&3&4&5&6 [62] (44) : How does this hexagram persuade/seduce?

Through <XOR the hexagram with 44 to give the particular form of expression>

Lines 1&2&3&4&5&6 [63] (01) : How does this hexagram express singlemindedness, competitiveness? (More so a focus on total actualisation where, due to the PAIR nature, we move focus into the 'opposite' that is needed to reflect the whole that is the pair)

Through <XOR the hexagram with 01 to give the particular form of expression>

The below pattern reflects the particular characteristics of hexagram 27, representing an archetype of structure that needs content, and so is the 'clay' from which a full hexagram is made, being expressed in each of the hexagrams. The focus here is on line POSITIONS that, when grouped, give us access to the expression of archetype X, represented in a hexagram, THROUGH a context described by hexagram Y.

You can consider this as a hexagram has a set of 'genes', all of the other hexagrams, and their expression through a particular hexagram can be distorted in the final expression. As such, hexagram A is the gene, the genotype, and hexagram B is the context or filter, then hexagram C is what is called the phenotype, the expression. Another analogy/metaphor is with music, where hexagram A is the note or chord, b is the KEY, and C is the expression.

Thus, below, the hexagram in the column of expression is interpreted as describing the underexaggerated qualities of the hexagram in the context column, where THROUGH that context is being expressed the hexagram in the archetype column. Here the archetype column is always 27 (100001).

So, to apply a hexagram taken as archetype to a hexagram taken as context, just 'flip' those lines in the context hexagram that correspond with the YANG lines in the archetype hexagram. Thus in the below example we flip lines 1 and 6.

For example, if we 'flip' lines 1 and 6 of 111111 we get 011110 - hexagram 28, where 28s general quality of excess is translated as 'too much yang' where that describes by analogy the mud/clay out of which hexagram 01 has 'emerged'.

I have ordered these in binary sequence down the context column, from 000000 to 111111 (1/0 ordering left-to-right = bottom-to-top)

archetype => context => expression

100001 => 000000 => 100001 (27=>02=>27)
100001 => 000001 => 100000 (27=>23=>24)
100001 => 000010 => 100011 (27=>08=>42)
100001 => 000011 => 100010 (27=>20=>03)
100001 => 000100 => 100101 (27=>16=>21)
100001 => 000101 => 100100 (27=>35=>51)
100001 => 000110 => 100111 (27=>35=>25)
100001 => 000111 => 100110 (27=>45=>17)

100001 => 001000 => 101001 (27=>15=>22)
100001 => 001001 => 101000 (27=>52=>36)
100001 => 001010 => 101011 (27=>39=>37)
100001 => 001011 => 101010 (27=>53=>63)
100001 => 001100 => 101101 (27=>62=>30)
100001 => 001101 => 101100 (27=>56=>55)
100001 => 001110 => 101111 (27=>31=>13)
100001 => 001111 => 101110 (27=>33=>49)

100001 => 010000 => 110001 (27=>07=>41)
100001 => 010001 => 110000 (27=>04=>19)
100001 => 010010 => 110011 (27=>29=>61)
100001 => 010011 => 110010 (27=>59=>60)
100001 => 010100 => 110101 (27=>40=>38)
100001 => 010101 => 110100 (27=>64=>54)
100001 => 010110 => 110111 (27=>47=>10)
100001 => 010111 => 110110 (27=>06=>38)

100001 => 011000 => 111001 (27=>46=>26)
100001 => 011001 => 111000 (27=>18=>11)
100001 => 011010 => 111011 (27=>48=>09)
100001 => 011011 => 111010 (27=>57=>05)
100001 => 011100 => 111101 (27=>32=>14)
100001 => 011101 => 111100 (27=>50=>34)
100001 => 011110 => 111111 (27=>28=>01)
100001 => 011111 => 111110 (27=>44=>43)

100001 => 100000 => 000001 (27=>24=>23)
100001 => 100001 => 000000 (27=>27=>02)
100001 => 100010 => 000011 (27=>03=>20)
100001 => 100011 => 000010 (27=>42=>08)
100001 => 100100 => 000101 (27=>51=>35)
100001 => 100101 => 000100 (27=>21=>16)
100001 => 100110 => 000111 (27=>17=>12)
100001 => 100111 => 000110 (27=>25=>45)

100001 => 101000 => 001001 (27=>36=>52)
100001 => 101001 => 001000 (27=>22=>15)
100001 => 101010 => 001011 (27=>63=>53)
100001 => 101011 => 001010 (27=>37=>39)
100001 => 101100 => 001101 (27=>55=>56)
100001 => 101101 => 001100 (27=>30=>62)
100001 => 101110 => 001111 (27=>49=>33)
100001 => 101111 => 001110 (27=>13=>31)

100001 => 110000 => 010001 (27=>19=>04)
100001 => 110001 => 010000 (27=>41=>07)
100001 => 110010 => 010011 (27=>60=>59)
100001 => 110011 => 010010 (27=>61=>29)
100001 => 110100 => 010101 (27=>54=>64)
100001 => 110101 => 010100 (27=>38=>40)
100001 => 110110 => 010111 (27=>58=>06)
100001 => 110111 => 010110 (27=>10=>47)

100001 => 111000 => 011001 (27=>11=>18)
100001 => 111001 => 011000 (27=>26=>46)
100001 => 111010 => 011011 (27=>05=>57)
100001 => 111011 => 011010 (27=>09=>48)
100001 => 111100 => 011101 (27=>34=>50)
100001 => 111101 => 011100 (27=>14=>32)
100001 => 111110 => 011111 (27=>43=>44)
100001 => 111111 => 011110 (27=>01=>28)

We now come to another process regarding line positions, but here we do not 'XOR' the lines, we 'AND' them - in other words for A and B hexagrams we make the expression from marking all lines common to A and B as yang, all the rest as yin.

For example, with 100001 AND-ed with 101101 we get an expression of 110011. What does this represent? The XOR process deals with differentiating, developing a clear distinction of 'something', and so is STATIC. The AND process deals with differentiating and as such represents a TEMPORAL activity. In the IC so A = 'begin' and C = 'end' and B is the context that ensures A moving to C, C 'satisfying' A.

Beginning(cause, the traveller) => context(the path travelled) => Ending (effect, the destination)

100001 => 000000 => 011110 (27=>02=>28)
100001 => 000001 => 011111 (27=>23=>44)
100001 => 000010 => 011100 (27=>08=>32)
100001 => 000011 => 011101 (27=>20=>50)
100001 => 000100 => 011010 (27=>16=>48)
100001 => 000101 => 011011 (27=>35=>57)
100001 => 000110 => 011000 (27=>45=>46)
100001 => 000111 => 011001 (27=>12=>18)

100001 => 001000 => 010110 (27=>15=>47)
100001 => 001001 => 010111 (27=>52=>06)
100001 => 001010 => 010100 (27=>39=>40)
100001 => 001011 => 010101 (27=>53=>64)
100001 => 001100 => 010010 (27=>62=>29)
100001 => 001101 => 010011 (27=>56=>59)
100001 => 001110 => 010000 (27=>31=>07)
100001 => 001111 => 010001 (27=>33=>04)

100001 => 010000 => 001110 (27=>07=>31)
100001 => 010001 => 001111 (27=>04=>33)
100001 => 010010 => 001100 (27=>29=>62)
100001 => 010011 => 001101 (27=>59=>56)
100001 => 010100 => 001010 (27=>40=>39)
100001 => 010101 => 001011 (27=>64=>53)
100001 => 010110 => 001000 (27=>47=>15)
100001 => 010111 => 001001 (27=>06=>52)

100001 => 011000 => 000110 (27=>46=>45)
100001 => 011001 => 000111 (27=>18=>12)
100001 => 011010 => 000100 (27=>48=>16)
100001 => 011011 => 000101 (27=>57=>35)
100001 => 011100 => 000010 (27=>32=>08)
100001 => 011101 => 000011 (27=>50=>20)
100001 => 011110 => 000000 (27=>28=>02)
100001 => 011111 => 000001 (27=>44=>23)

100001 => 100000 => 111110 (27=>24=>43)
100001 => 100001 => 111111 (27=>27=>01)
100001 => 100010 => 111100 (27=>03=>34)
100001 => 100011 => 111101 (27=>42=>14)
100001 => 100100 => 111010 (27=>51=>05)
100001 => 100101 => 111011 (27=>21=>09)
100001 => 100110 => 111000 (27=>17=>11)
100001 => 100111 => 111001 (27=>25=>26)

100001 => 101000 => 110110 (27=>36=>58)
100001 => 101001 => 110111 (27=>22=>10)
100001 => 101010 => 110100 (27=>63=>54)
100001 => 101011 => 110101 (27=>37=>38)
100001 => 101100 => 110010 (27=>55=>60)
100001 => 101101 => 110011 (27=>30=>61)
100001 => 101110 => 110000 (27=>49=>19)
100001 => 101111 => 110001 (27=>13=>41)

100001 => 110000 => 101110 (27=>19=>49)
100001 => 110001 => 101111 (27=>41=>13)
100001 => 110010 => 101100 (27=>60=>55)
100001 => 110011 => 101101 (27=>61=>30)
100001 => 110100 => 101010 (27=>54=>63)
100001 => 110101 => 101011 (27=>38=>37)
100001 => 110110 => 101000 (27=>58=>36)
100001 => 110111 => 101001 (27=>10=>22)

100001 => 111000 => 100110 (27=>11=>17)
100001 => 111001 => 100111 (27=>26=>25)
100001 => 111010 => 100100 (27=>05=>51)
100001 => 111011 => 100101 (27=>09=>21)
100001 => 111100 => 100010 (27=>34=>03)
100001 => 111101 => 100011 (27=>14=>42)
100001 => 111110 => 100000 (27=>43=>24)
100001 => 111111 => 100001 (27=>01=>27)

The above focus also represents the HEAVEN=>MAN=>EARTH dynamic were the LOCAL context is MAN, the UNIVERSAL context is the archetypes, and the RESULT is EARTH.

The stimulus=> response of an expressed archetype is a response of itself. Stimulus->context->response ‘colours’ the archetype with local conditions to give the ‘preferred’ response, the expression, as the ‘best fit’ to the situation.

Asking generic questions, or tossing coins if you need to, gives us the LOCAL context, the MAN position. The changing lines in that hexagram give us an indication of the CONTEXT that is pushing – we thus work backwards deriving a hexagram out of the template of all yin lines (02) and THEN ‘yanging’ those lines that are changing in the MAN hexagram.