{"id":4268,"date":"2020-05-30T05:26:41","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T04:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/?post_type=encyclopedia&#038;p=4268"},"modified":"2022-04-09T20:28:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T18:28:51","slug":"changing-lines","status":"publish","type":"encyclopedia","link":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/glossar\/changing-lines","title":{"rendered":"changing lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Depending on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/glossar\/divination\" target=\"_self\" title=\"The I Ching oracle is traditionally determined by using coins or yarrow sticks. At no2DO.com we go a different way and use a mixture of human factor and a computer generated random number. The main difference - besides convenience and speed - are the numerical values that are generated by the different oracle methods: no2DO&hellip;\" class=\"encyclopedia\">divination<\/a> method (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/glossar\/yarrow-stalks\" target=\"_self\" title=\"For the I Ching various divination methods exist. When, for example, divination is done with yarrow stalks, fifty dried stalks are selected from a bundle and taken in the left hand. Then one yarrow stalk is put away. The remaining 49 yarrow stalks are divided into two piles and, taking four yarrow stalks from each&hellip;\" class=\"encyclopedia\">yarrow stalks<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/glossar\/coins\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Usually three coin are used for divination. 3 is assigned as a value to the front of each coin, the 2 to the back. By tossing coins, the total value is 6, 7, 8 or 9, with 6 and 8 representing a broken line (yin) and 7 and 9 representing a solid line (yang). This&hellip;\" class=\"encyclopedia\">coins<\/a> or electronic oracle as we use it on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/glossar\/no2do\" target=\"_self\" title=\"no2Do is a further development of the English term 2DO (2DO-list, to-do list, pending items list or task list). The prefix no suggests that quite often the most useful strategy confronting a problem is to do just... nothing - entirely in the spirit of Wu Wei (non-intervention). In this respect, no2DO is first of all&hellip;\" class=\"encyclopedia\">no2DO<\/a>), different numerical values result for each individual &ldquo;throw&rdquo;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>no2DO oracle (electronic): 7 or 8<\/li>\n<li>coins or yarrow stalks: 6 or 7 or 8 or 9<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The values 6 and 9 are regarded as changing lines, i.e. they change into their respective opposite: 6 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/glossar\/yin\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Yin originally referred to the colder north side of a mountain, the shaded river bank or the darker, cooler south side of a valley. Later on Yin was associated with the idea of days with cool weather and overcast skies, with shadows and all that is dark, cool and humid, with water and earth, night&hellip;\" class=\"encyclopedia\">Yin<\/a>) becomes 7 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/glossar\/yang\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Yang was initially symbolized by the warmer, southern side of the mountain, a sunny bank, later the mountain as a whole. Subsequently Yang represented everything including light and bright day, summer and sun. Also dryness, air (wind) and fire were assigned to Yang, as well as increasingly warm days of spring, the warmer season's flourishing&hellip;\" class=\"encyclopedia\">Yang<\/a>), 9 (Yang) becomes 8 (Yin). This transforms the original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/glossar\/hexagram\" target=\"_self\" title=\"A hexagram is formed by two trigrams, with the movement going upwards, just like plant growth: in divination the hexagram is built from bottom to top and later read accordingly. Read more: Structure of a Hexagram Read more: Overview hexagrams\" class=\"encyclopedia\">hexagram<\/a> into another one of the 64 hexagrams. (More explanations and an example can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/glossar\/divination\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I regularly receive requests if or why not I do consider the changing lines of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/glossar\/i-ching\" target=\"_self\" title='The I&nbsp;Ching (Chinese &#63968;&#32147;, y&igrave; jing, W.-G. I&nbsp;Ching, auch: I Jing, YI&nbsp;Ching, Yi King; \"The Book of Changes\") is based on cosmology and philosophy of ancient China, particularly Daoism (Taoism). Basic ideas behind the I Ching include balance of opposites and acceptance of change. The book describes the world in 64 images which in turn&hellip;' class=\"encyclopedia\">I Ching<\/a>&rsquo;s hexagrams in no2DO. My perspective on this issue is as follows: My opinion, working with the I Ching means first of all to thoroughly understand the (original) hexagram. This takes time and effort. However, I consider this step essential and an effort worth taking. For this reason I have expanded the individual hexagrams&rsquo; interpretation pages step by step and thus given the users a variety of material at hand.<\/p>\n<p>Without tools or if someone shies away from this effort, it is actually tempting to quickly turn to the changing lines. This is, for example, often the case when solely working with the original texts. Let&rsquo;s be honest: &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/glossar\/perseverance\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Central notion of the traditional interpretation of the I&nbsp;Ching. Meaning: be steadfast, remain true.\" class=\"encyclopedia\">Perseverance<\/a> furthers!&rdquo; does not say much. It is natural to turn to the changing lines in search of more &ldquo;meat&rdquo;. Unfortunately, the texts offered in the changing-lines-section are equally cryptic and bring enlightenment only in few cases. An explanation for this could be that the original texts possibly contain political messages from the times of the texts&rsquo; origins. Dominique Hertzer investigated this phenomenon in her book &ldquo;Das <a href=\"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/glossar\/mawangdui\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Archaeological site located in Changsha, China. In 1972, a tomb library was discovered there, which contains, among other things, a copy of the I Ching, which is much older than the textus receptus known so far and deviates from it by about 25 %. If one compares the content of the I Ching from the&hellip;\" class=\"encyclopedia\">Mawangdui<\/a>- Yijing&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>However, if you still want to consider the changing lines, I&rsquo;d offer following advice: The changing lines result in a further, a second hexagram. Once you have worked extensively with the first hexagram, you could then do the same with the second hexagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depending on the divination method (yarrow stalks, coins or electronic oracle as we use it on no2DO), different numerical values result for each individual &#8220;throw&#8221;: no2DO oracle (electronic): 7 or 8 coins or yarrow stalks: 6 or 7 or 8 or 9 The values 6 and 9 are regarded as changing lines, i.e. they change&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/glossar\/changing-lines\">Weiterlesen:<span> changing lines<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"template":"","class_list":["post-4268","encyclopedia","type-encyclopedia","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/4268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/encyclopedia"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}