I Ching hexagram 21
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I Ching hexagram 21, depicted |::|:| is named 噬嗑 (shi4 ke4), Gnawing Bite. Other translations: R. Wilhelm/C. Baynes, Biting Through; E. Shaughnessy (Mawangdui), Biting and Chewing.
- Inner (lower) trigram is ☳ (|:: 震 zhen4) Shake = (雷) thunder
- Outer (upper) trigram is ☲ (|:| 離 li2) Radiance = (火) fire
- The trigrams can be read bottom to top as "With enlightenment (thunder in lower) comes direction-setting, an ideology (fire in upper)"
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[edit] The Self-Referencing I Ching : using the I Ching to describe itself
The following material is drawn from analysis of the binary sequence of the hexagrams where the hexagrams are derived from recursion of yin/yang and so showing a property of the method - the hexagrams are all linked together and contribute to the expression of, the description of, each hexagram.
- The skeletal form of hexagram 21 is described by analogy to the under-exaggerated properties of hexagram 16 with its generic focus on the use of foresight and planning; in 21 this is emphasised through the making of laws etc.
