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The Hexagram Compass.: by D.H. Van Den Berghe

The document describes how a 3x3 magic square and the Eight Houses derived from it can be used to construct different "hexagram compasses" containing the 64 hexagrams and 8 trigrams of the I Ching. It provides examples of hexagram compasses arranged on a 24-direction compass board, with the last example based on the Eight Houses arrangement found in R. Wilhelm's translation of the I Ching.

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The Hexagram Compass.: by D.H. Van Den Berghe

The document describes how a 3x3 magic square and the Eight Houses derived from it can be used to construct different "hexagram compasses" containing the 64 hexagrams and 8 trigrams of the I Ching. It provides examples of hexagram compasses arranged on a 24-direction compass board, with the last example based on the Eight Houses arrangement found in R. Wilhelm's translation of the I Ching.

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The hexagram Compass.

by D.H. Van den Berghe

An important tool for divination is the 3x3 magic square and the Eight Houses that are derived from it :

Out of this diagram we can easily construct a compass board with 24 directions :

This board can be used to make several different "hexagram compasses" . Here are some of them (numbers from King Wens hexagram order)(South is always up):

All these compasses contain the 64 hexagrams(constructed from the two trigrams attributed to the numbers in the inner and outer squares)and the eight trigrams (where there is a 5 which has no trigram attributed to it).The last example is based on the "Eight Houses" arrangement that can be found at the end of the R.Wilhelm translation of the I Ching.

1998 D.H.Van den Berghe [email protected] www.fourpillars.net

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