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Introducing the 9 Hands

These are the 9 Hands of Tai Chi since ancient times. They correspond to the 9 Palaces of Feng Shui.

Space Open	Sōng Jìn 鬆勁
Heaven Float	Péng Jìn 掤勁
Earth Sink	Lǚ Jìn 捋勁
Water Swallow	Jǐ Jìn 擠勁
Fire Spit	Àn Jìn 按勁
Wet Swallow & Float	Cǎi Jìn 採勁
Dry Spit & Sink	Liè Jìn 挒勁
Hot Float & Spit	Zhǒu Jìn 肘勁
Cold Sink & Swallow	Kào Jìn 靠勁

Pronunciation Guidance: Link 1 / Link 2 — click the speaker button on the bottom left, to hear how each term is pronounced.

Introducing the 3 Cores

This is the ancient Tai Chi warm up and warm down process. It’s essentially an old form of Chakra Healing.

Stretching Dǎo Yǐn 導引	〇 Unlock the Mind 知常容	Mind Shén 神
Flowing Qì Gōng 氣功	一 Unlock the Heart 容乃公	Spirit Qì 氣
Sparring Tuī Shǒu 推手	二 Unlock the Guts 公乃王	Body Jīng 精
Flowing Qì Gōng 氣功	一 Return to Heart 王乃天	Spirit Qì 氣
Stretching Dǎo Yǐn 導引	〇 Return to Mind 天乃道	Mind Shén 神

The grounded body doesn’t fall.

沒身不殆。

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Understanding the Four Seasons

	☷	☵	☰	☲
Season	Winter The shortest days The darkest time of year Peak mystery	Spring Rising up	Summer The summit The longest days The brightest time of year Peak manifestation	Autumn Falling down
Time	Solar Midnight (~0000) The darkest time of day	Sunrise (~0600)	Solar Noon (~1200) The brightest time of day	Sunset (~1800)

The annual seasons are a powerful set of metaphors for most of us, but those living near the equator will experience a weaker amplitude in their annual cycle (little difference between Summer and Winter). Meanwhile, they’ll have a stronger daily cycle (midday is super bright; midnight is super dark). Similarly, those experiencing a weak daily cycle (near the poles) will experience a strong annual cycle. So the daily cycle makes a great partner to the annual cycle.

䷄ Cǎi 採 Mankūs منكوس ━━ ━━ ━━ ●	䷀ Péng 掤 Jamāʿa جماعة ━━ ━━ ━━ ━━	䷌ Zhǒu 肘 al-Aḥyān الأحيان ● ━━ ━━ ━━
䷜ Jǐ 擠 Qabḍ Dākhil قبض داخل ━━ ● ━━ ●		䷝ Àn 按 Qabḍ Khārij قبض خارج ● ━━ ● ━━
䷆ Kào 靠 ʿAtaba Dākhila عتبة داخلة ━━ ● ● ●	䷁ Lǚ 捋 Ṭarīq طريق ● ● ● ●	䷢ Liè 挒 ʿAtaba Khārija عتبة خارجة ● ● ● ━━

BaGua Crosswalk

This crosswalk table translates 4 distinct BaGua sequences: from the most mainstream-of-today on the left, to the most true-to-original on the right, in our view.

HòuTiān BāGuà 後天八卦	Shùn XiānTiān BāGuà 順先天八卦	Direction Time	Nì XiānTiān BāGuà 逆先天八卦	ChángDào BāGuà 常道八卦
☵ Water	☷ Earth	North 0000	☷ Earth	☷ Earth
☶ Mountain	☳ Lightning	NE 0300	☶ Mountain	☶ Mountain
☳ Lightning	☲ Fire	East 0600	☵ Water	☵ Water
☴ Wind	☱ Marsh	SE 0900	☴ Wind	☱ Marsh
☲ Fire	☰ Heaven	South 1200	☰ Heaven	☰ Heaven
☷ Earth	☴ Wind	SW 1500	☱ Marsh	☳ Lightning
☱ Marsh	☵ Water	West 1800	☲ Fire	☲ Fire
☰ Heaven	☶ Mountain	NW 2100	☳ Lightning	☴ Wind

16 Figures — the Cardinal Core of the Yi Jing

This is the cardinal core of the Yi Jing. It’s also the foundation of Odu Ifa from Africa, and Ilm Al-Raml from Arabia, and Medieval European Geomancy too.

There’s a reason our ancestors loved this stuff. Clear & balanced full-spectrum cosmography highlights patterns, and finds gaps and biases in systems of all kinds like never before.