The Image Commentary, one of the Ten Wings, reads each hexagram as the interaction of its two constituent trigrams: hexagram 4, Meng, is a spring beneath a mountain, hence 'the superior person fosters character by resolute action'. This image-first exegesis became the dominant literati reading method, and Richard Wilhelm's German translation (I Ging, 1924; English by Cary Baynes, 1950) transmitted it to the West with Carl Jung's foreword attached.
Popular use skips the trigram imagery and mines the Judgment lines for predictions, treating the book as a vending machine of fortunes. The classical commentators considered the image, not the prediction, the teaching.
The image method's claim is radical: any moment can be read as a stacked symbol, inner trigram as your stance, outer as the world's, and the relation between them as the instruction. It is a complete theory of reading reality as text, two thousand years before semiotics.
If every situation has an image, a mountain over your water, what is the picture you are currently inside?