Ideograms of Divorce

Dec 14, 2025

∙ Paid

What trouble this hexagram gave me! I will be honest with you, the version before the one I published yesterday was terribly boring. It was only after talking with my friendIoannis Goldmouth , that I realized “Conflict” or “Argument” were not suitable titles, but the radical translation “Divorce” became immediately clear.

When you take into account the Ideogram

訟

Argument, litigation, conflict. Speech+public

and the hexagram

䷅

The masculine heaven and the feminine water divorcing from one another.

The image was far more visceral!

Here are some of the notable ideograms from this week.

逋

To flee, to abscond. Walking+Field with growth. This is like “getting fresh air”, walking in the park. Though 甫 the growing field can also mean “begin”, so we have “Get walking!”