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The Book of Changes · 易经

The Eight
Trigrams

先天八卦

Three lines — broken or unbroken — create eight primal images. Together they describe the movements of heaven, earth and the world between them.

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Bagua · 八卦

Eight Images of Nature

Each trigram joins a natural image, family role, direction and quality of change within the I Ching tradition.

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Qián · 乾

Heaven · The Creative

Strength, initiative and the ceaseless motion of the sky.

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Duì · 兌

Lake · The Joyous

Pleasure, openness, exchange and the reflective surface of still water.

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Lí · 離

Fire · The Clinging

Clarity, beauty and radiance — light that reveals what it touches.

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Zhèn · 震

Thunder · The Arousing

Movement, shock and awakening — the first force that breaks winter stillness.

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Xùn · 巽

Wind · The Gentle

Subtle influence, penetration and the patient power of a breeze.

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Kǎn · 坎

Water · The Abysmal

Depth, danger and persistence — the flowing path through uncertainty.

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Gèn · 艮

Mountain · Keeping Still

Boundary, meditation and the wisdom of stopping at the proper time.

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Kūn · 坤

Earth · The Receptive

Devotion, nurture and the spacious ground that brings all things to form.

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From one line come two forms; from two forms come four images; from four images arise the eight trigrams.

Enter the Book of Changes

Begin with your birth chart, then follow its elemental patterns into the wider language of change.

Cast My Chart The Four Symbols