The literal translation of the word “I Ching” is “The Book of Changes”; this is because the I Ching system recognizes that existence is a constant state of flow and flux, nothing is ever static for very long; you are always moving, life is always moving around you. So just as two three-line trigrams unite into a six-line hexagram, that hexagram is in the process of changing, slowly or quickly, into another hexagram.
One of the reasons I love I Ching is that it doesn't make any presumption on what may happen, or assumption on what happened prior. All it does is give you what is, without prescribing any point of view but the harmony of Yin and Yang.
