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  • noun Plural form of trigram.

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  • Except for the Bon variation of Tibetan astrology, there are no transiting annual trigrams, which would entail each calendar-year in general being assigned one in a particular sequence.

    Tibetan Astro Sciences ��� 1 Basic Principles 2009

  • A progressed trigram for each year of age is derived from a certain arrangement of the trigrams.

    Tibetan Astro Sciences ��� 1 Basic Principles 2009

  • The eight trigrams of the I Ching or Book of Changes - three lines, unbroken or broken, arranged horizontally - are also used in Tibetan element or black calculations, though never the sixty-four hexagrams.

    Tibetan Astro Sciences ��� 1 Basic Principles 2009

  • Before marriages, the compatibility of the couple is checked, as mentioned before, by comparing their various pebble-elements and trigrams.

    Tibetan Astro Sciences ��� 2 History and the Tibetan Calendar 2009

  • The interpretation of the natal and progressed trigrams gives further information for the predictive horoscope.

    Tibetan Astro Sciences ��� 1 Basic Principles 2009

  • From Kabbalistic mysticism and structures, basic forms, trigrams of the Chinese I Ching, or “matrices” (coded squares) of the Mayan culture, to computer chips, DNA molecules and code signs in futuristic orientation — all these served her as very powerful containers of knowledge, as materials for the artist to work with.

    Artists: Israeli, 1970 to the Present. 2009

  • These four trigrams, as well as the body, life-force, power, and valley-of-fortune natal pebble-elements of a prospective couple are what are compared in the marriage calculations to determine compatibility.

    Tibetan Astro Sciences ��� 1 Basic Principles 2009

  • In addition, body, life-force, power, and valley-of-fortune trigrams can be calculated as well, and these are derived from the four types of magic-square numbers calculated from the natal number.

    Tibetan Astro Sciences ��� 1 Basic Principles 2009

  • Well, what we do is we map the power relations between the customer and the significant players in their lives in terms of the symbolism of the trigrams.

    AI - Mark 3 Hal Duncan 2006

  • The I Ching can therefore be understood as a sort of poetic/philosophical computation device, designed to model the transformations of one state to another in terms of symbols (trigrams) and their relationships (above and below).

    AI - Mark 3 Hal Duncan 2006

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