Week 8: Lines That Move

Hexagrams and changing lines — the course's pivot week

12 April 2027

The structural mechanism that answers the course’s central question directly, and the pivot from constructing signs to studying their history.

Outline#

• hexagrams as stacked trigram pairs, sixty-four combinations
• the changing-line rule: an “old” line flips, deriving a transformed hexagram structurally, not by external description
• Assignment 1, due this week, and how it draws on this week’s material plus weeks 6–7’s arrangements