Zhouyi ⁽²⁾

Confucius said: One who understands the Changes does not divine. Xunzi said: One who is skilled in the Changes does not consult the cracks. The Zhouyi was originally a book of divination. Yet great scholars like Confucius and Xunzi said that "one who understands the…

The Qián hexagram is the first hexagram of the Zhouyi. All six of its lines are yang, making it a pure-yang hexagram, embodying the masculine, vigorous energy of the human world. The Commentary on the Images (Xiàng Zhuàn) explains Qián thus: "The movement of heaven…