Unified Pattern — Pair of two — YIN + YANG, hexagram 1 (Fu, Return — King Wen no. 24)
One of 256 distinct Unified Patterns — a 12×12 Jacquard construction where every cell's colour is read off a single hexagram of the Yi King, hexagram Fu, Return. Binary numbering 0–63; in brackets, the traditional King Wen number.
Family Pair of two — YIN + YANG, one of the 8 admissible families (out of 15) in the system's classification — see the lexicon for how families are built and admitted.
The pattern's three colour classes, set independently — change one, the other two stay put.
One tint, read in light and dark — a luminance reading, not three colours with two greyed out.
Reading the cell, line by line
The 144 cells of the 12×12 cell fall into six levels of 24 cells, one per line of the hexagram. Where the line is solid (yang), the level takes its colours from the family's YANG grid; where it is broken (yin), from its YANG mutant grid. Count of each colour, level by level:
| Level | Line | Grid read | Colour 1 (violet) | Colour 2 (magenta) | Colour 3 (orange) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | solid | YANG | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| 2 | broken | YANG mutant | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| 3 | broken | YANG mutant | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| 4 | broken | YANG mutant | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| 5 | broken | YANG mutant | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| 6 | broken | YANG mutant | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| Whole cell | 48 | 48 | 48 | ||
The three colours are exactly balanced: 48 cells each. The cell is unchanged by a quarter turn, a half turn.
Hexagram 1 (King Wen no. 24) — Return
Upper trigram ☷ Kun (The Receptive, the Earth); lower trigram ☳ Zhen (The Arousing, Thunder).
Image
Thunder within the Earth: the image of return. The vital force, buried deep in winter, has not vanished — it waits, invisible, for the moment to rise again. This is the figure of renewal hidden within apparent stillness. Thus the ancient kings, at the solstice, closed the passes; merchants and travelers no longer moved about: there are moments when the greatest act is to hasten nothing, letting the return accomplish itself.
Judgement — Rebirth
The vital principle returns at the very heart of the deepest night. Nothing is ever truly lost as long as, somewhere, that tiny seed persists which begins again. This line says that the lowest point already contains, in seed, the movement of return — it is precisely in the deepest darkness that light begins to grow once more.
The full hexagram page: the six lines, its magic square and the other patterns built on it.
Same shape, other colourings
Two involutions leave this motif's shape unchanged and only permute its three tints — verified across every family and every hexagram in the corpus, not just this one: swapping the pairing used to read the hexagram (YANG/YANG-mutant ↔ YIN/YIN-mutant), and taking the hexagram's binary complement (63 − 1 = 62). Toggle them below; the tiling never changes, only the colours do.
The grid itself
The 12×12 layer map and the three colour grids above, in the raw data — human-readable, and machine-readable as JSON.
Show the data
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Neighbouring motifs
The previous and next hexagram within the same family, Pair of two — YIN + YANG.
