The Octahedron and the I-Ching

When sphere packing meets the trigram

Image by PIRO4D from Pixabay

Recently I have been writing articles about an ancient esoteric system based on structures built from balls. My claim is that this system is the foundational system of what would eventually become astrology and the I-Ching.

This system starts with a single ball and then at each level an additional ball is added and the…