Trigrams, hexagrams, I Ching, & Feng Shui

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I received a question in private email concerning how many combinations can be

made from Heaven and Earth. This relates to the I Ching and Feng Shui.

 

I'm posting my reply on here since there are other readers who are interested in

I Ching & Feng Shui. Also, a garden or a room designed along Feng Shui

principles can be very relaxing, and relaxing is good for health.

 

BTW, west coast realtors starting hiring Feng Shui experts because there's such

a large population of people from the Orient in California and Washington state.

These people simply would not buy a house that wasn't ok along Feng Shui

principles. To the surprise of the realtors, the houses began to sell better to

everyone, and not just people with Oriental ancestory. The Feng Shui houses were

selling better than the non-Feng Shui houses to people who have never heard of

Feng Shui. The techniques can make for a very soothing, very positive, very

balanced environment.

 

The I Ching is a method of divination. Actually, to call it that doesn't do it

justice, but that's the simpliest explanation for people unfamiliar with it.

There's a lot more to it than that. When my husband was taking Oriental

philosophy classes in college, he had to buy a deck of I Ching cards. It was

required for the course.

 

When you cast a hexagram, you cast one line at a time. The line will either be

Yang ______ or Yin __ __. (Actually, non-changing Yang or Yin or changing Yang

or Yin, but that's getting into it deeper than I want to go in this post.)

 

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> This is I Ching and Feng Shui.

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> Heaven is Yang and represented by a straight line.

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> Earth is Yin and represented by a broken line.

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> There are 8 possible triagrams that can be made from these two lines.

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> These are the 8 trigrams. Put any of the 2 together and you have an I

Ching hexagram.

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> For example,

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> is hexagram 1, Heaven below, Heaven above.

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> is hexagram number 3, Growing Pains. It's made up of Thunder Below

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> and the Deep (Water) above

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> Each of trigrams has a name. The 8 are Heaven, Earth, Thunder, Water (the

Deep), Mountain, Wind/Wood, Fire/Sun, and the Mist/Marsh.

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> There are 64 possible hexagrams that can be made from these 8 trigrams.

These are the hexagrams of the I Ching.

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> But the 8 trigrams also have application in Feng Shui and can have

application in healing. Feng Shui is the Chinese art of placement in order

to blend smoothly with the environment and increase positive energy. There

are Feng Shui principles for locating a building in the landscape, for

gardening, and for placement of furniture in a room. Also for locating grave

sites. It is said that martial arts experts Bruce Lee and his son Brandon

died young because the family's grave plot in Hong Kong has bad Feng Shui.

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> Each of the different directions of the compass is associated with a

different trigram. I forget which is which but the 8 directions are East,

Southeast, South, Southwest, West, NorthWest, North, and North East. Certain

things belong or are associated with each direction and its trigram. For

example, Dagmar talks about the East, the green dragon, Wood energy, the

Liver, the Gallbladder, etc. South is the Red Bird, Fire, Fire energy, the

Heart and Small Intestine. West is the White Tiger, Metal, the Lung, the

Large Intestine, etc. I believe North is the Black Tortoise (not sure about

the tortoise part), Water energy, the Kidney, the Bladder, etc.

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> The center of the 8 directions is Yellow, Earth energy, the Spleen and

Stomach.

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> Sometimes people's dreams will incorporate symbolism of the directions to

reveal health problems to a healer who can interpret the symbolism.

Sometimes a person with an imbalance will feel uncomfortable when sitting in

one of the directions. I know it sounds esoteric, but this can happen.

Someone had me sit in the 4 main directions, and I felt very uncomfortable

in the North and the East. As it turns out, the North is Cold and Kidney and

Bladder. The East is Wind and Liver and Gallbladder. I am very sensitive to

cold and wind. (South is Heat, West is Dryness, and the center, Earth, is

Dampness.)

 

 

 

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