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The Four Base Trigrams

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The four base Trigrams are pictorially in my mind Absolute Yang (Heaven) above man, Absolute Yin (Earth) below him.

 

The two mixed Trigrams are his “arms,” representing Man, as caught between Heaven and Earth, a permutation of those creative energies, but which if he has the intuition and insight and training may learn to flow and manipulate these energies within himself and FOR himself. 
 

I have heard of a great Tai Chi player who was said to “hold the Eight Trigrams within his palms,” and this first diagram in this book I’m reading made me think of that quote and it’s possibilities 🙏🙇🏻

 

https://www.amazon.com/Ba-Zi-Four-Pillars-Destiny/dp/1848192908/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2WA3YOPLPWJY2&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.NYsTuOODMC3bBFWtCuUEKg.E_PfA_K1OltlnWsiXxPeMhEbmh4HcqAxtTkqK3zWcos&dib_tag=se&keywords=Ba+zi+serge&qid=1756995260&sprefix=ba+zi+serge%2Caps%2C388&sr=8-1

 

“These four are the nucleus for the remaining 60 and give us the base for all situations. As previously mentioned in the above extract from the Dao De Jing, they describe everything, or the ten thousand things. If we look back at the image of Man between heaven and earth, this is the complete theory, with Ba Zi and Feng Shui arising from this. But know that the knowledge contained in the book is deep and can take a lifetime to master. The difficulty lies in the understanding of each hexagram, because very often the information and explanation is just one example of its interpretation. Each of the hexagrams should be adaptable to any situation that we might want to look at—from work and money to relationships, amongst many other things. So, from these 64 things, we should be able to explain everything.”

 

 

 

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