Tag: quadrigram

Four by Four by Four by Four Directions

the Cardinal Directions, and the fractals of scaling

This is an ongoing exploration of the 4 Cardinal Directions as a foundation for daykeeping (the 256-day calendar in particular).

Most recently, these two visualizations of the bi-, tri-, and quadrigrams of theAbysmal Year. These are images (inspired by the I Ching) made up of two, three, or four lines arranged vertically. Each line is one of the four colours associated with the Cardinal Directions.

North – blue
East – green
South – yellow
West – red

This can be extended to the intermediary directions:

NW – violet
NE – green-blue
SE – yellow green
SW – orange

There are two versions of these images: clockwise, which follows the sequence of the Seasons;

concentric circles - at centre, a circle divided into four quarters that swirld clockwise. From bottom the colours are blue, green, yellow, red. The first circle around this is made of 16 bigrams - one line on top of the other in each of the combination of the four colours. The circle around this are the 64 trigrams of three lines. At the outside are the 256 quadrigrams.
the clockwise circle of 4-16-64-256

North – Winter
East – Spring
South – Summer
West – Autumn

and counter-clockwise, which follows the sequence of the 256- and 260-day calendars;

concentric circles - at centre, a circle divided into four quarters that swirld counter-clockwise. From bottom the colours are blue, red, yellow, green. The first circle around this is made of 16 bigrams - one line on top of the other in each of the combination of the four colours. The circle around this are the 64 trigrams of three lines. At the outside are the 256 quadrigrams.
the counter-clockwise circle of 4-16-64-256