The Hexagrams of the Book of Changes by Michael Graeme (2009).pdf

The Hexagrams

The Book of Changes

Other works by Michael Graeme can be found at the Rivendale

Review Website

www.mgraeme.ic24.net

The Hexagrams

The Book of Changes

Michael Graeme

This Edition June 2009

To the Spiritual Hitch Hiker

The Hexagrams of the Book of Changes

Introduction

I do not claim to write with any authority on the Book of

Changes, and the best I can offer is yet another interpretation

of the original, or to be more precise a combined

interpretation of many other modern interpretations. What

you will find here began as a series of notes taken during my

early studentship of the book, and my attempts to make sense

of the sometimes conflicting interpretations presented in the

various editions I owned. What I tried to do was distil the

essence of as many interpretations as I could find, and arrive

at an “average” or “most likely” explanation, in words that

meant something to me, in the context of my own experience.

Those original notes can be found on my website, The

Rivendale Review. The electronic version of the text has the

advantage of being easily searchable, but I’ve always felt

there is no substitute for a paper book that requires no

batteries and can be dropped on the floor without breaking.

Partly then I wanted to make these notes available in book

form, so I could purchase them in an attractive format that

was convenient for my own use, but also to make it available

as a possible aid to others who were perhaps finding their

own way with the book and compiling their own collections

of published interpretations.

This is a Westernised treatment of a revered Eastern text, as

seen through the eyes of a Western man whose only

qualification, beyond his impertinence, is his personal

experience of working with it at a practical, psychological

and spiritual level. I have no doubt purists will be horrified by

it and I can only beg their forbearance. I am not a sinologist

and this is not a translation. I make no reference to the

original translated text and the following words should be

viewed more as a guide to interpretation, a thing to be used

perhaps in conjunction with other sources. Nor do I spend

any time explaining the subtleties of the hexagrams’ line

structure but cut straight to the method of arriving at each

hexagram and then an explanation of what they mean in my

own language, using metaphors that mean something to me. I

also dispense with the traditional method of drawing the

hexagrams line by line and their associated numerology.

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