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The\u00a0brilliant\u00a0image above shows the twelve tidal hexagrams \u2013 I believe these are attributed to Wang Bi, the remarkable\u00a03rd-century\u00a0scholar who compiled the standard version of the Dao De Jing.\u00a0 This particular image was not developed until much later, as the classic \u201cdouble-fish\u201d taiji diagram in the middle was developed by Zhou Dunyi in the Song Dynasty.<\/p>\n
To understand this image, note that the classical Chinese fengshui map orients south as \u201cup\u201d and north as \u201cdown\u201d.\u00a0 It also serves as a clock, with midnight at the bottom and noon at the top (completing one circle per day).\u00a0 So if we are in the northern hemisphere facing south, Earth is below our feet and Heaven is above our head, and north is behind us and south is in front.<\/p>\n
From this vantage, notice that the sun traverses the sky in a clockwise motion.\u00a0 At the depth of midnight there is no yang, just yin; at the height of noon there is no yin, just yang \u2013 but these don\u2019t last long.\u00a0 Note that the hexagrams shown here are written with the bottom lines facing the center of the circle.<\/p>\n
These twelve hexagrams match the Twelve Earthly Branches<\/a>, or zodiac animals.\u00a0 In this image, Pig is shown at the bottom (all yin lines), Snake at the top (all yang lines).\u00a0 Tiger is at the left (east), Monkey at the right (west).\u00a0 Rat (the first animal) extends out from Pig, with one yang line at the base and the rest yin.\u00a0 From here, yang gradually swells until it reaches the apex at Snake, and then gradually recedes back to Pig.<\/p>\n There is so much we can study based on this chart.\u00a0 I share it here simply with regard to the twelve moons, as these hexagrams describe the quality of each moon in the context of the rise & fall of the year.\u00a0 For example, Tiger Moon is the third moon (technically considered the first moon of the new year).\u00a0 The associated tidal hexagram is #11 (Grandeur), showing three yang lines below and three yin lines above \u2013 a state of perfect balance and harmony, thus an auspicious time to start the new year.<\/p>\n These tidal hexagrams are a different system from the bazi hexagrams we are covering in our Dark Moon Newsletter<\/a>.\u00a0 I honestly don\u2019t know how these systems relate to one another or their respective applications.\u00a0 But I think we should keep in mind that from the perspective of annual qi, Tiger (the third of the 12 tidal hexagrams) always relates to Hexagram #11, while Monkey (the ninth of 12) always relates to Hexagram 12.\u00a0 The numbers 3 & 9 relate to yang and are considered very auspicious, but as with yang, both Tiger & Monkey also come with great potential danger.<\/p>\n Tidal hexagrams notwithstanding, in terms of the Sexagenary Cycle <\/a>of 60 moons that we use in the bazi, the various signs have different hexagram correspondences.\u00a0\u00a0 The current moon\u00a0for instance is\u00a0Yang-Metal Tiger<\/a>, which in the bazi relates to Hexagram #12, while Yang-Metal Monkey corresponds to Hexagram 11!<\/p>\n So as we continue this 60-moon observation<\/a>, keep in mind this separate system of the Twelve Tidal Hexagrams governing the annual qi of each moon, and then within that context look at the bazi hexagram.\u00a0 Subscribe here<\/a> to join me in this 60-moon project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The\u00a0brilliant\u00a0image above shows the twelve tidal hexagrams \u2013 I believe these are attributed to Wang Bi, the remarkable\u00a03rd-century\u00a0scholar who compiled the standard version of the Dao De Jing.\u00a0 This particular image was not developed until much later, as the classic \u201cdouble-fish\u201d taiji diagram in the middle was developed by Zhou Dunyi in the Song Dynasty. … Continue reading “The Twelve Tidal Hexagrams”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":976,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}