industry and carpentry, as well as guides, plasterers, and bricklayers.
Articles: String, thread, wire, rope, tables, lumber, railroads, pencils, matches, drawers, swings, postal items, electric fans, and bellows.
Food: Noodles (wheat), onions, leeks, garlic, greens.
Animals: The cock, chickens, cranes, snakes, earthworms, and the chi-lin (in Chinese mythology, a supernatural animal resembling a deer; also known as the unicorn).
Plants: Grass, willows, reeds and rushes, the lily, the calamus.
Season: Between late spring and early summer.
Weather: Windy and cloudy.
Color: White.
Direction: Southeast.
Miscellaneous: Clouds, forenoon (from 7 A.M. to11A.M., the time of hard work), green, orderly or neat appearance, length and height, obedience, adjustments, marriage arrangements, travel, dismissal or disbanding, distant or remote places, and hesitation.
7. LI li Clinging
The second dark trigram, the second or middle daughter, symbolizes the sun and fire. From this a host of associations is created—brightness, brilliance, beauty, ferocity, disasters such as fires, dryness, and separation. Li also means dangerous weapons and fighting. This light-giving trigram also means perception.
People: Middle daughters, middle-aged women, beauties, wise and intelligent people.
Parts of the body: Eyes, heart, the spirit (energy), breasts, blood.
Sicknesses: Eye diseases, mental illness, high fevers, heart ailments, headaches.
Places: Police stations, lighthouses, fire departments, department stores, theaters, schools, courthouses, downtown, battlefields, scenes of fires.
Occupations: Writers, artists, artisans, eye doctors, the police, war correspondents, soldiers, and those in the munitions, department store, barber shop, beauty parlor, and bookstore businesses.
Articles: Paintings, works of calligraphy, books, ornaments and decorations, electric lights, candles, lamps, pots, kettles, stocks, checks, bonds, armor, weapons.
Food: Dry foods, turtles, oysters, shelled seafood (clams and the like), crabs, beautifully arranged or colored foods.
Animals: Pheasants, chicks, goldfish, fireflies, crabs, lobsters, turtles, snails, mussels, tortoises, and mollusks.
Plants: The crepe myrtle, maples, the beefsteak plant (Perilla nankinensis), watermelons, and red colored plants.
Season: Summer.
Weather: Clear, warm, hot day; droughts.
Color: Red and purple.
Direction: South.
Miscellaneous: Noon, brightness, lightning, radicalness, violence, nervousness, impulsiveness, intelligence, passion, enthusiasm, electricity, rainbows, bitter taste.
8. TUI dui Joyous
The last dark trigram is the youngest daughter, the symbol of young girls, of joy, delight, and gaiety. Tui is the marsh, a low-lying place that connotes insufficiency, incompleteness, inadequacy, defectiveness, and things that are concave or indented. Associated with the trigram are reflection, enticement, and destruction or ruin. As Tui means the pleasurable and the happy (food, drink, and money), the opposite idea is suggested. Danger can result from an excess of pleasure.
People: Youngest daughters, young girls, young ladies, girl friends, female stars or celebrities, female vocalists, bar girls, hostesses, prostitutes, concubines, sorceresses, witches, the incompetent or feeble.
Articles: Knives, blades, money, and musical instruments.
Parts of the body: Mouth, lungs, respiratory organs, the chest, and teeth.
Sicknesses: Afflictions of the mouth cavity and illnesses in the chest and breast region.
Places: Valleys, ponds, marshes, low-lying ground, hollows, ditches, riversides, places where water is accumulated or deep lakes, bars, taverns, beverage shops, brothel or prostitution districts.
Occupations: Lawyers, lecturers, and those involved in monetary concerns or drinking establishments.
Food: Coffee, tea, wine, alcohol, mutton, bird meat.
Animals: Sheep, birds, monkeys.
Plants: Autumn plants, Chinese bellflowers, magnolias, plants with a peppery, spicy, or hot taste such as ginger and red pepper, and plants growing beside marshes, swamps, and lakes.
Season: Autumn.
Weather: Rainy.
Color: White and golden color.
Direction: West.
Miscellaneous: Hot, spicy, or peppery taste, evening or twilight, singing and songs, arguments, damage or destruction, setbacks or failures, dew, snow, gentleness, happiness, a consuming interest or hobby, laughter, a "big mouth," lawsuits or litigation, sexual passion or lust, speech.
PART THREE The 64 Hexagrams: explanation and practical application in divination
EACH OF the following 64 Hexagrams is given a brief explanation in terms of symbolic representation of phenomena and actual application in divination. If the reader thoroughly familiarizes himself with the ideas in this section, he will naturally be able to expand use of the hexagrams beyond the scope of the phenomena listed below. The key to utilizing the hexagrams lies in the understanding of the fundamental concepts embodied in them.
The hexagrams show one's position in time and implications of future potentialities. They provide the basis for correct action in a given situation.
In applying the hexagrams it is best to remember the pointers on use mentioned in Part One (pages 17-19).
The order of information about the hexagrams is as follows: 1) hexagram number, 2) the hexagram itself, 3) pronunciation in the standard Wade-Giles romanization system, 4) pronunciation in the pinyin system, 5) Richard Wilhelm's translation of the hexagram, and 6) the corresponding Chinese characters) for the hexagram.
The primary and nuclear trigrams of each hexagram are listed for the convenience of the reader. Counting from the bottom, lines 1, 2, 3 form the lower trigram, and lines 4, 5, 6 form the upper trigram. The nuclear trigrams are formed by lines 2, 3, 4 (the below) and lines 3, 4, 5 (the above).
CH'IEN qian The creative
TRIGRAMS: Primary: Upper— Ch'ien Creative
Lower—
