Calendar Reform: embracing the Abyss
Using the ratio of daylight to night, the following was constructed
(from outside inwards)
365 days
- represented by circles as dark as the night is long
- the bottom represents the Winter Solstice, the top the Summer Solstice
- as the circle symmetrical, it can be followed either clockwise or counter-clockwise.
see here for Gregorian Calendar dates mapped to this arrangement of 13 months.
64 hexagrams
- of the I-Ching
- Hexagram 1 Ch’ien: the Creative at the top
- Hexagram 2 Ku’un: the Receptive at the bottom
13 months
- 28 days or 4 weeks of 7 days
- Winter Solstice as the abysmal day
- symmetrical either clockwise or counterclockwise
8 Trigrams - according to King Wan
- the Abysmal, Water, at the bottom
- inner world arrangement
8 Trigrams – according to Fu-Hsi
- reflects the arrangement of the 64 hexagrams
- primal arrangement
5 Elements
- Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water
For more on the I-Ching and Time, see also:
I-Ching & Celestial Cycles
I-Ching Mandala
Trigrams and metrical language
Basic Binary Patterns
Hi there… I’m writing to inquire about your circular I Ching graphic called i-ching-by-daylight. Is this an original graphic you have created or did you find it somewhere else? If it’s original we’d like to ask permission to use it in a book being self-published soon. It would be a background watermark type of image on the title page of each chapter. Please let me know at your earliest convenience if it is original or there is another copyright holder you know of, and if you’re open to granting permission of use if it’s yours. Thanks, Marshall
Hello Marshall,
it’s original. It’s all mine. To discuss the use of this image, please contact theabysmal AT gmail DOT com