Yi Jing Trigram Switch

Trigram Switch

I would like to write about the Yi Jing Trigrams today by looking at them from Fu Xi's time (Earlier Heaven) and the time of Zhou Wen Wang (Later Heaven)

From Zhou Wen Wang's time, he decided to change the position of the Qian gua and Kun gua when he wrote the Yi Jing. He wanted to build his own kingdom for himself and his people. Thus,  he changed Fu Xi''s bagua for political reasons. 

	Earlier Heaven	Fu Xi	Later Heaven	Zhou Wen Wang	Political reasons for His Change as Zhou’s kingdom was situated in Western China	Yang/Yin
1	Qian	South	Qian	Northwest	Will find friends if people move to the areas in the west	Yang
2	Kun	North	Kun	Southwest	Will find friends if people move to the areas in the west	Yin
3	Xun	Southwest	Xun	Southeast	Will encounter obstacles if people move to areas in the east.	Yin
4	Kan	West	Kan	North	Cold area of China	Yin
5	Gen	Northwest	Gen	Northeast	Will encounter obstacles if people move to areas in the east.	Yang
6	Zhen	Northeast	Zhen	East	Will encounter obstacles if people move to the east.	Yang
7	Li	East	Li	South	Warm area of China	Yin
8	Dui	Southeast	Dui	West	Happy if people move to the west	Yin

You can look at the table and see how the directions have changed since the times of Later Heaven. Yi Jing is so amazing and this ancient language still speaks volume today.

Be kinder to yourself and to others.

Namaste!

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