Kind of off topic, but I have been looking at I Ching hexagrams as design patterns for life. Each hexagram represents a state you can be in. You can transitio

Kind of off topic, but I have been looking at I Ching hexagrams as design patterns for life. Each hexagram represents a state you can be in. You can transition from one state to any other state, but there are consequences. The consequences are described in the transitions of the moving lines. To make the most sense of this, it helps to read Richard Wilhelm's translation and annotations of the I Ching. If you don't read German, then Cary Banes's translation of Wilhelm's translation is pretty much the only one out there. Unfortunately still under copyright (ha ha... on 5000 year old document). But it is widely pirated on the web. I often wonder if the random "predictions" of the I Ching were originally just a way of studying. There are 4096 different transitions to look at, and approaching them systematically would be painful in the extreme. I've spend some time to see if the transitions actually make sense and from what I can tell, they do (modulus my ability to fool myself into seeing reason in things that have no actual reason). I wish I had enough patience to actually study it ;-)