My Instagram post from five days ago noted that 2024 (or more accurately, year of the Wood Dragon) corresponds with hexagram 43. Some have been describing it as a forecast or prediction. That’s not completely correct, so I assumed I’d make clear.
It’s not a lot a forecast as it’s an software of I Ching principle.
You begin with the 4 corners of the universe to anchor the mandala that’s the I Ching 64 hexagrams round Earth, i.e., from the vantage level of Earth.
This might be the equinoxes and solstices; dawn, excessive midday, sundown, and midnight; and the 4 directional guardians of Earth. These 4 corners correspond with the doubling of 4 of the eight trigrams:
- Water over Water for hexagram 29,
- Fireplace over Fireplace for hexagram 30,
- Thunder over Thunder for hexagram 50, and
- Lake over Lake for hexagram 58.
So the speculation goes you are taking these 4 hexagrams out of the cycle as a result of it’s essential to “plot” these 4 factors and anchor the mandala that’s the I Ching cycle down so it’s Earth-centric.
You then hyperlink the remaining 60 hexagrams to the 60 years within the lunar-solar calendar. That is the 60-year lunar photo voltaic (or sexagenary) calendar system relationship again to the Zhou dynasty:
Right here’s how that 60-year calendar cycle seems to be diagrammed within the type of a circle, or mandala:
Ooh, and like with designing mandalas, you begin with 4 gates, 4 instructions, 4 corners, in order that’s precisely what we’re doing right here.
You superimpose the remaining 64 hexagrams within the acquired King Wen’s order (skipping over hexagrams 29, 30, 51, and 58, our anchor factors to the 4 gates) over the calendar cycle and that is what you get:
As soon as we do this, we see that each 12 months of the Wooden Dragon, which occurs as soon as each 60 years, corresponds with a return again to hexagram 43 governing forces. And 2024, or extra precisely February 10, 2024 by means of January 28, 2025, is a kind of Wooden Dragon years.
Thus, as an illustration, beneath this principle, hexagram 42 forces ruled in 2023 (12 months of the Wooden Rabbit), suggesting a 12 months of recent developments and vital Wind and Thunder associated innovation or development.
Hexagram 41 forces ruled 2022, a 12 months of misery, whereby that which was stale getting into the 12 months will rot in that 12 months, with Oracle steering {that a} higher resilience is required to efficiently navigate hexagram 41 forces.
And humorous sufficient, 2020, Steel Rat, corresponds with hexagram 39, when international motion will come to a standstill and extenuating circumstances blocking the pure path. (The zodiac signal Rat usually brings with it illness and sickness, so that’s fascinating, too.)
You too can use the chart to search for the I Ching hexagram governing your 12 months of beginning per the lunar calendar. I’m a Steel Rooster, for instance, so hexagram 62 forces govern the 12 months of my beginning.
And here’s a fast refresher on the equinoxes and solstices:
| Northern Hemisphere | Solstices vs. Equinoxes | Astronomical Occasion | Yin-Yang Steadiness |
| Summer season Solstice | Solstices symbolize when Earth’s axial tilt has the best impression on distribution of daylight | North pole titled towards the solar on the most angle | Longer day
(yang dominant) |
| Winter Solstice | North pole tilted away from the solar on the most angle | Longer evening
(yin dominant) |
|
| Spring Equinox | Equinoxes symbolize when Earth’s axial tilt shouldn’t be extra towards or away from the solar, leading to equal lengths of day and evening | Earth positioned such that neither pole is tilted towards the solar, however Earth starting to tilt towards the solar | Steadiness between day and evening
(yin and yang balanced) |
| Autumn Equinox | Earth positioned such that neither pole is tilted towards the solar, however Earth starting to tilt away from the solar |
So per my view, sharing that 2024 corresponds with hexagram 43 shouldn’t be divination.
It’s divination if I’m personally the one utilizing a casting methodology to then solid an I Ching studying with the intention that such a studying will reveal what’s to come back in 2024.
That’s not what I did in that submit.
Fairly, all I did was search for 12 months of the Wooden Dragon on that long-established reference desk, then shared with the general public, hey, based on this correspondence desk that I completely didn’t create, 2024 is beneath the governance of hexagram 43.
I imply, it’s a forecast to the extent that you simply forecast the climate by way of meteorology. I’m saying that based on a longtime system of finding out international processes and phenomena, 12 months of the Wooden Dragon brings an overcast of hexagram 43 vibes. However what you make of that “climate” forecast (if you’ll) is as much as you. Simply because it’ll rain doesn’t imply you’ll get moist.
Whereas let’s say I did a divination and the divinatory consequence I obtained after following a ritualized casting methodology was hexagram 5 (it’s not — I arbitrarily made up that quantity off the highest of my head simply now). The intent for divination can be: based on the woo I did, the collective motion this 12 months might be hexagram 5-ish.
Argh, I don’t know if I’m making any sense.
Okay, so. Saying 12 months of the Wooden Dragon corresponds with hexagram 43 is form of the identical as me saying the 12 months 2024 corresponds with Key 8: Power (or Justice, relying on which tarot you’re working with), as a result of 2 + 0 + 2 + 4 = 8.
Was {that a} forecast for 2024, that it’s going to be Power-y, or Justice-y? I dunno, perhaps, I suppose. However I wouldn’t name it divination.
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