Three Systems of Astrological Correspondence.
Three Systems of Astrological Correspondence.
System 1. Traditional lines to circle.
This system uses the traditional sequence and counts from the bottom line to the top in every hexagram as it goes around the zodiac wheel. This makes for 384 divisions of the circle with no exact correlation to the 360 degrees.
System 2: Lines to Zodiac
This system uses the traditional sequence, but it counts from the bottom line to the top for the first half of each season. In the second half of each season it counts from the top line down to the bottom. This aligns with the cardinal half and a mutable half of each season. The fixed signs are in the middle. The shifting of direction happens at 15 degrees of the fixed signs. In this system there are still 384 lines with no exact correlation to the 360 degrees.
System 3: Degrees to Lines. (Preferred system)
This system uses the traditional sequence and count from the bottom line up for the first half or 45 degrees of each season and then counts from the top down for the last half or 45 degrees of each season. The main distinction here is that at the 45 degrees of each season or the middle of each fixed zodiac sign, there are six lines, three solid and three broken that neutralize each other. These twenty-four lines (6×4) are not counted. What is left is a direct correspondence of 360 degrees to 360 lines of the I Ching. Each line of a hexagram occupies 1 degree.
After years of research this has proven to me to be the most useful and reliable system of relating the Astrology degrees to the lines of the zodiac hexagrams. This system is used in the examples given in this site and in the book, I Ching: The Sequence of Change as well as in the appendices.
The two hexagrams at the middle of the fixed signs (middle of the seasons) share the same six degrees from 12 to 18 degrees. They technically overlap, but because there are three neutral lines in each of these hexagrams, the lines count up 1, 2, 3 in the first and then down 3, 2, 1 in the second hexagram. This allows for the understanding of these mid-season points. As Astrologer Dane Rudhyar calls them, points of Avataric Descent.