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THE PA-K'UA
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he pa-k'ua used in Chinese divination, called the post-celestial pa-k'ua, is a system of
trigrams (stacks of three solid and/or broken lines) designed by King Wen almost
three thousand years ago to describe the nature of changes in the universe.
Notice that this pa-k'ua doubles as an eight-point compass, with each direction
associated with a particular trigram.
The solid lines in the trigrams symbolize yang and the broken lines symbolize yin. Thus, a trigram with two or more broken lines is primarily yin, whereas a trigram with two or more solid lines is
primarily yang. Yin-type trigrams are associated with receptive energy
and stillness, while yang-type trigrams are associated with expansive energy and
action.
A fundamental assumption of Chinese divination is that if we know how
things change over time, we can predict future events. This is why the trigrams
and their patterns of change form the foundation of the I-Ching, the book
of divination.
The patterns of changes represented in the post-celestial pa-k'ua can tell a feng-shui practitioner about the type of energy, destructive
or nourishing, that "enters" a particular position of a building (north, south,
east, west, etc.) at a particular time. For example, look at the grid of the Flying Stars System. You will notice that the number 9 appears in several squares. Number 9 is the numeric
symbolizing fire. In our example, number 9 appears in the sections representing
the study, the bathroom, and the atrium. This means that there will be a risk of
fire in these rooms. The bathroom has the least threat because of the presence
of water. The atrium has the biggest threat because plants (and therefore wood)
can strengthen the element of fire.
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