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Perpetualgamer: /* The Ba Gua Map */

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The Ba Gua Map

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	=== The Ba Gua Map ===		=== The Ba Gua Map ===
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			<b> Geomancer Lessons:
			The Ba Gua Map
			Penned by Innysus


			Later Heavens Sequence:

			Li
			-------
			--- ---
			-------
			Xun ------- --- --- K'un
			------- --- ---
			--- --- --- ---

			Chen --- --- --- --- Tui
			--- --- CENTER -------
			------- -------


			Ken ------- ------- Chi'en
			--- --- -------
			--- --- -------
			--- ---
			-------
			--- ---
			K'an

			Starting from the top and going clockwise, each trigram
			in the Later Heavens Sequence denotes a color, direction
			element, personality, role, season, and trigram.

			<b>Li -
			Color: Red
			Direction: South
			Element: Fire
			Personaliy: the Clinging
			Role: Reputation and Social life
			Season: Early Summer
			Trigram: Fire

			<b>K'un -
			Color: Yellow
			Direction: Southwest
			Element: (Big) Earth
			Personality: the Receptive
			Role: Marriage, Relationships, and Romance
			Season: Late Summer
			Trigram: Earth

			<b>Tui -
			Color: Grey
			Direction: West
			Element: (Small) Metal
			Personality: the Joyous
			Role: Children, Creativity, and Entertainment
			Season: Early Fall
			Trigram: Pond

			<b>Chi'en -
			Color: Grey
			Direction: Northwest
			Element: (Big) Metal
			Personality: the Creative
			Role: Helpful people, Spiritual life, and Travel
			Season: Late Fall
			Trigram: Heaven

			<b>K'an -
			Color: Blue
			Direction: North
			Element: Water
			Personality: the Abysmal
			Role: Career, Life Mission, and Individuality
			Season: Early Winter
			Trigram: Water

			<b>Ken -
			Color: Brown
			Direction: Northeast
			Element: (Small) Earth
			Personality: the Still
			Role: Wisdom, Self-Knowledge, and Rest
			Season: Late Winter
			Trigram: Mountain

			<b>Chen -
			Color: Green
			Direction: East
			Element: (Big) Wood
			Personality: the Arousing
			Role: Health, Family, and Community
			Season: Early Spring
			Trigram: Thunder

			<b>Xun -
			Color: Green
			Direction: Southeast
			Element: (Small) Wood
			Personality: the Gentle
			Role: Wealth and Prosperity
			Season: Late Spring
			Trigram: Wind

			<b>Center -

			The Center of the Ba gua map represents you. It is sometimes associated with your health, though Chen in the East is as well. The Center helps to maintain balance in the rest of the Ba gua and affects each of the other areas. The Center uses earthy colors similar to those of K'un and Ken and is associated with the element of Earth.

	=== Ba Gua Zhang ===		=== Ba Gua Zhang ===

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The Elemental Cycles (B)

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	=== The Elemental Cycles (B) ===		=== The Elemental Cycles (B) ===

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			<b> Geomancer Lessons:
			The Elemental Cycles (Part Two)
			Various Authors

			So how does this effect balance? Well the entire world is
			in a state of constant flux, always changing. So to
			balance this, the world needed a cycle capable of
			controlling and generating the elements. This is where we
			get our generative and control cycles from. I say control
			cycles when referring to the destructive cycle, because
			controlling and limiting elemental presence in the world
			is what it really does.

			Because the balance is the world as a whole, what effects
			one part of the world will effect the other. A large
			forest fire in one part of the world destroys a forest.
			This diminishes woods presence in the world, but it
			creates more earth. This in turn causes a greater metal
			presence. This in turn generates water, and perhaps is
			manifested in another part of the world as long periods of
			rain. This generates more wood. Not only in the cycle but at
			times like that it is usually a growing season. More trees,
			more plants, more of everything in that aspect. Where is
			metals manifestation in this? We don't see it do we? But
			isn't there more wood and more water generated? Yes there
			is. So must the elements be physically manifested? No.

			What does this lead us to see? That the world uses this
			as a whole to create a delicate balance. But because wood
			is a growing thing it needs tweaking, and when it reduces
			or increases one it must adjust the others to balance it.
			The elements are indeed wonderous. The power they have is
			not explicit, but it is in balancing oneself that its power
			is manifested.

	=== The Eight Trigrams ===		=== The Eight Trigrams ===

Perpetualgamer: /* The Elemental Cycles (A) */

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The Elemental Cycles (A)

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	=== The Elemental Cycles (A) ===		=== The Elemental Cycles (A) ===
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			<b> Geomancer Lessons:
			The Elemental Cycles
			Various Authors

			"It was still the beginning of summer when the drought hit
			our village. The glades and forests that had been so
			plentiful were drying and dying. The greatest mind of our
			land came together to solve the crises. DarthVex, a
			scientist from the academy, and Phlegyas, a social activist
			from the slums invented at those meetings, irrigation. The
			forest was renewed by the water brought in and all like
			seems grand...until the lightning struck. Fire spread
			threw the forest and destroyed it in whole, leaving only
			ash. It was (as we thought) the end. soon though we
			realized what was happening...the fire had nourished the
			earth...minerals were then found abundantly in our lands
			...it was a new source of trade for us! I remember Darth
			pointing out a strange thing though...the metal we mined
			was melted down to create many things...it as he gazed
			into it he pointed out how much it was like water. We both
			remembered our first tool of irrigation and we were forced
			to stop and contimplate what we were seeing...the
			completion of the cycle....it all returned..again..and
			again...."

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			Knowing the properties of the elements allow us to examine
			the interactions between them. There are two cycles: a
			productive cycle, which delineates the ability of each
			element to activate another and the destrictive cycle,
			which outlines the ability of each element to limit the
			activity of another. They are transcribed below:

			<b>Productive (or generative) Cycle

			Water---Wood---Fire---Earth---Metal

			Water feeds wood for it to grow. Wood feeds fire which
			produces Earth. Earth creates metal and Metal holds Water.
			The cycle continues. To use the productive cycle you are
			able to use the element before and after the main element
			you are bringing into the room. For example, if you are to
			bring wood into the home you may add water because it
			feeds the wood and/or add fire because it is created by
			fire. The destructive cycle will show which elements do
			not work well together.

			<b>Destructive (or degenerative) Cycle

			Water---Fire---Metal---Wood---Earth

			Water douses fire. Fire melts metal. Metal cuts down the
			wood. Wood clogs the earth. Earth muddies the waters. The
			destructive cycle is used in Feng Shui to lessen an energy.
			For example, if a room is filled with a great deal of new
			age metallic objects and streamlined furniture. You would
			add some fire like a fireplace or some red throw pillows
			on the couch to cut down the metal energies.

			Knowing which element produces the next or quashes the
			last in each cycle is the key to creating an auspicious
			flow of Chi. Where the energies of each element are
			appropriately balanced, Chi will flow well, and vice versa.

			Contemplating the elements teaches us a greater balance.

			If we think about it, the elements are not really
			physically manifested in nature. Rather they are an
			abstract presence in the world -- energies, if you will.
			How else may metal generate water? Water in the real world
			is in a constant state of flux and is moved around as it
			flows through crevices and cracks in the earth. It is also
			evaporated and redistributed through the earth as rain,
			snow, sleet, et cetera.

			(Continued ...)

	=== The Elemental Cycles (B) ===		=== The Elemental Cycles (B) ===

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	to your liking? Read on, young one.		to your liking? Read on, young one.

			=== The Geomancer Demeanor ===
			=== A Geomancer's View ===
			=== Geomancer Honors and Dishonors ===
			=== Geomancer Guides ===
			=== Path of the Earth Mage ===
			=== Circle of Subpaths ===

			== Geomancer Services ==
			=== Summary of Geomancer Services ===
			=== Ba Gua Ceremonies ===

			== The Inner Sects ==
			=== The Unity of Inner Sects ===
			=== An Introduction to Wu Xing ===
			=== An Introduction to Tiaoli ===
			=== An Introduction to Wu Wei ===

			== Geomancer Histories ==

			== Geomancer Lessons ==

			=== Qi and its Two Forms ===

			=== Wu Chi and Tai Chi ===

			=== Tracing the Tai Chi Circle ===

			=== Yin, Yang, and Balance ===

			=== Neutrality ===

			=== Balance and Neutrality ===

			=== The Luck Trinity ===

			=== Karma ===

			=== Karma Levels ===

			=== The Four Deities (A) ===

			=== The Four Deities (B) ===

			=== The Earth's Dragon ===

			=== The Wu Xing (Five Elements) ===

			=== The Geomancer Way of Thinking ===

			=== The Elemental Cycles (A) ===

			=== The Elemental Cycles (B) ===

			=== The Eight Trigrams ===

			=== Elemental Affinities (A) ===

			=== Elemental Affinities (B) ===

			=== The Origins of the Ba Gua ===

			=== Two Ba Gua Sequences ===

			=== The Ba Gua Map ===

			=== Ba Gua Zhang ===

			=== Feng Shui ===

			=== The Stems and Branches System (A) ===

			=== The Stems and Branches System (B) ===

			=== The Ba Yin ===


			== Tao Te Ching ==

			== Creative Works ==

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== What is a Geomancer? ==

=== What is a Geomancer? ===
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<b> What is a Geomancer?
Penned by Shoh

I'll do my best to explain to what exactly 'Geomancy'
entails, though the term itself is more often
misunderstood than correctly applied.

A Geomancer is one who is at one with the earth. The
Geomancer perceives the courtship of the winds where
others perceive little more than a mundane whistling.
The Geomancer understands the ancient and untold language
of the universe: he/she is at one with the natural rhythms
of existence itself.

This world is a living one. It is dynamic, changing,
diverse, yet somehow eternally the same, static and in
equilibrium. Heroes will be born and expire, kingdoms
will rise and fall, yet the Geomancer perceives that
little really changes. The Geomancer sees that this world
and everything in it (for everything is a part of this
world) is the continual and perpetual harmony of dual
opposites. The energies of the unnmoving, receptive, dark
and feminine forever incline towards the active, bright
and masculine. It is the interaction and flux of these
forces, the duality of opposites, that gives rise to all
earthly phenomena. We know this to be incontrovertible
fact. To know so is to perceive the very fabric of
existence.

The timeless and ancient balance of all things is known to
the Geomancer, yet it is a mystery most ecstatic and
sublime, for one can never contain its boundless secrets
in the flawed receptacle of the human mind. Knowing however
that it is the beginning and end of all things, one can
perceive it at work. The elements themselves are actors in
the drama of existence: they interact; wax and wane. Water
descends where fire rises. Wood is expansive, while metal
moves in on itself. Knowing that each element produces the
next is the key to observing the cycles of the natural
world. The natural rhythms are contained in repetition: yin
gives rise to yang and yang to yin.

Are these things of any interest to you? Is this knowledge
to your liking? Read on, young one.