An Anthology of I Ching Wallace A. Sherrill lived in mainland China for two years and spent three years in Taiwan. He also was engaged, until his death, in research and writings relating to metaphysics and parapsychology in Los Angeles. Dr Wen Kuan Chu, a seeker of truth through science, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism and Western Mysticism, was before his death Director of the East-West Essence Society, Santa Ana, California. Wallace A. Sherrill and Dr Wen Kuan Chu have also co-authored The Astrology of I Ching (1976). AN ANTHOLOGY I CHING OF W. A SHERRILL, M. A. AND W. K. CHU, Ph.D. AR KANA ARKANA Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R ORL, England Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia Penguin Books Canada Ltd, IO Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2 Penguin Books India (P) Ltd, I 1 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi -110 017, India Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd, Cnr Rosedale and Airborne Roads, Albany, Auckland, New Zealand Penguin Books (South Africa) (Ply) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R ORL, England www.penguin.com First published by Routledge & Keegan Paul 1977 Published by Arkana 1989 Copyright QW. A. Sherrill and Wen Kuan Chu, 1977 All rights reserved Printed in England by Clays Ltd, St Ives pie Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser Contents Preface xi Chapter 1 Basic Information Introduction and background history The development of the trigrams 8 Basic divination 23 Chapter 2 Advanced Divination 37 Yearly predictions 38 Specific questions 44 Further possible examples of advanced divination 51 Divination without the use of coins or yarrow stalks · 54 A simple method for obtaining 'Yes' or 'No' answers 68 Chapter 3 Astrologies Related to the I Ching 71 Introduction 71 Animal symbolism in Chinese Astrology 75 Nine House, or Star, astrology 76 Tzu Pin astrology 1 16 Tzu Wei astrology 127 Astrology of the I Ching 163 Tai-I Number astrology 176 Chapter 4 Tai Shuan Ching ChapteP 5 The I Ching and History 180 Sau Yung's concept of the I Ching and history 180 Tai-I Number 182 v Contents Chapter 6 The I Ching and Meditation Progressive cycles of meditation Physiology and meditation Physiology and the I Ching Chi Mai and Yin Yang Chapter 7 The I Ching and Geomancy The Negative House The Positive House Chapter 8 Directionology 205 Establishing the directions 206 Summary 217 Appendices A Table of Trigram Attributes 218 B The Lunar Calendar 228 C Applicability of Advanced Divination, Tzu Pin and Astrology of the I Ching in the Southern Hemisphere 256 Index vi Figures l The development of Yin and Yang 10 la Stage 3 evolution (detail from Figure i) 13 2 Tai Ch'i 14 3 The circular evolution of trigrams 15 4 Circular diagram of hexagrams 16 5 Earlier Heaven sequence 17 6 Later Heaven sequence 18 7 The Magic Square of Three 19 8 The Lo Map 20 9 The Ho Map 22 10 House positions 39 11 'Self' and 'Other' lines 59 12 Nine House yearly progressions 82 15 Action of the Horary Branches 122 14 Triplicate Horary unity and the five elements 125 15 The expulsion of Horary Branches 124 16 Standard horoscope chart 151 17 The Later Heaven and Pre-Heaven sequences 155 18 Establishing the ten-year cycle 134 19 A Tzu Wei chart (simplified system) 139 20 The cycles of the moon 190 21 Positive and negative trigrams in geomancy 198 22 The four East houses 200 25 The four West houses 201 24 The position of natal stars in the Lo Map in 1976 202 25 The migration of stars in 1977 203 26 Areas of trigram influence in Chinese and Japanese directionology 206 27 Areas of trigram influence 1977-85 209 28 The yearly Horary Branches 214 vii Tables 1 Generation of elements 21 2 Conquering of elements 21 3 Numerological symbolism of Horary Branches 22 4 'Self' and 'Other' lines in the House of Ch'ien 39 5 Horary Branch symbols related to trigrams 40 6 Horary Branch sequences and meanings 40 7 .Relatives and relationships 42 8 Yearly cycle and daily cycle additive values 44 9 Sexagenary cycle 45 10 Celestial Stem representations 45 11 Monthly Celestial Stems and Horary Branches 46 12 Daily cycle values 47 and 166 13 Hexagram obtained by the Sau Yung Plum Blossoms r Number system 55 14 Nine House numerical designations: year 78 15 Nine House numerical designations: month 79 16 Natal house positions 131 17 Assignment of houses 132 18 Celestial Stems and their related years 135 19 Element patterns 136 20 Position of Tzu Wei 136 21 Position of stars 138 22 Influence of the stars according to house position 142 23 Compatibilities 144 24 Yearly cycle houses 146 25 Yearly and daily cycle values 164 26 Hourly Celestial Stems and Horary Branches 167 27 Heavenly number trigrams 169 28 Earthly number trigrams 169 29 Time of birth symbols 170 ix