Category: Iching Illustration
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Mutual Attraction
Composed of the trigrams for lake over mountain this is the hexagram for mutual attraction. I took a looser, less literal direction with this Photoshop composite adding painterly elements.
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Hexagram 36 Shadows
Hexagram 36 or Ming depicts a panther creeping out of the darkness of a post sunset dusk. The meaning is the darkening of the light and it’s comprised of the trigrams for earth over fire. The panther symbolizes the power of darkness. It was a composite of the panther, sunset sky, palm trees, foreground tropical…
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Hexagram 47 Exhaustion
Hexagram 47 depicts a donkey laden with too much weight standing on a dry cracked lake bed. It’s a combination of the trigram lake over the trigram water the image being a lake which has drained. The meaning is oppression and exhaustion, poor donkey. This was a composite of the donkey, a dry lake bed,…
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Hexagram 13
This hexagram means fellowship and is symbolized in this instance by a group of bees facing each other. The elements are heaven over fire so the sun is at the top and at the bottom flames arise from a seed of life sacred geometry motif.
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8 Chimpanzee
The meaning of this hexagram is unity, the two trigrams composing it are the elements of Water over Earth which I represented with a stream flowing through a jungle. It’s about coming together in a group. Chimpanzees are social creatures.
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58 Hippo
Hexagram 58 is comprised of lake over lake and means joy or the joyous. The Hippopotamus assists clarify this.
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24 Snowy Owl
Hexagram 24 is comprised of the elements of earth over thunder. It’s basic interpretation is return and it’s associated with the winter solstice. The Snowy Owl symbolizes transition. the lightning represents the thunder element as it’s energy rises rise up from within the earth and is finally manifest, ready to expand.
