Cinnabar Review

Field notes on the sixty-four · Issue 64 · Autumn

Every hexagram is a conversation between two trigrams.

Interactive plate 64 figures King Wen order

The table below is arranged the way the old concordances arranged it: upper trigram across the top, lower trigram down the side. Where two trigrams meet, a figure is formed — and the number in its corner is its place in the King Wen sequence.

Move across a row and the lower trigram holds steady while the sky above it changes. Move down a column and the reverse is true. Use arrow keys once a figure is focused.

Plate I — the concordance table Upper — · Lower —
Table of sixty-four hexagrams, upper trigram across, lower trigram down

Index of the sixty-four

The same figures, unwound from the table into the sequence attributed to King Wen. Each entry links back to its cell on the plate.