ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author explores the processes of change and balance as reflected in the hexagrams for the contemporary reader. The I Ching end with a hexagram that signifies new beginnings or, rather, the eternal cycle of beginnings and endings. Formally, the work represented by this hexagram is that of transforming chaos into order, an order that is already implicit in the structure. Where Chi Chi concerns itself with a known action or process that has come to a close, Wei Chi stands before the Unknown and must yield to it, opening, emptying, and receiving before any action or choice can be initiated. The outer, or primary, trigrams in the present hexagram represent imbalance in the present, however fleeting it may be; the inner, or nuclear, trigrams represent innate order or balance; that is, the natural, cyclical progression of life through time.
