道生一 · 一生二 · 二生三 · 三生萬物
The Descent
The Dao gives birth to One. One gives birth to Two. Two gives birth to Three. Three gives birth to the ten thousand things. This is the cosmogonic sequence of the Yijing — told here as a map of what you already are.
Wuji and Taiji — The Origin
無極而太極 — From the limitless, the supreme ultimate. The undifferentiated void and the wholeness that stirs within it.
Liangyi — The Two Polarities
陰陽 — Yin and Yang. The capacity to give and the capacity to receive. Heaven and Earth draw apart.
Sixiang — The Four Phases
四象 — Greater Yang, Lesser Yang, Lesser Yin, Greater Yin. Disposition and allotment separate. The world takes shape.
Bagua — The Eight Trigrams
八卦 — Heaven, Earth, Thunder, Wind, Water, Fire, Mountain, Lake. Mind and body find their eight expressions.
The Eight Powers
Each trigram carries a power, a way of engaging reality. Mapped through organ, planet, and phase.
Liushisi Gua — The Sixty-Four Types
六十四卦 — Stack two trigrams and eight becomes sixty-four. The lower is what you were born with. The upper is what you are becoming.
Houtian — The Post-Heaven Condition
後天 — At birth, Xing and Ming separate. The original nature is buried. The acquired mind takes over. How we forgot.
Correspondences
The planetary gods, the Zangfu organs, and the Wuxing — ancient mirrors of the same pattern.