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This page describes the practice. There is deliberately no automated reading for it — see the notes below.
Background
The bagua is a set of eight trigrams, each of three broken or unbroken lines, representing yin and yang. Their early enumeration shaped Chinese philosophy and cosmology.
How it works
Each trigram stands for a natural image (such as heaven, earth, water, fire) and is arranged around a circle in "Early Heaven" or "Later Heaven" order; two trigrams stacked form an I Ching hexagram.
At a glance
- Also called
- Pa kua, 八卦, Eight trigrams
- Traditions
- Chinese, Taoist
- Regions
- East Asia
- You need
- Nothing
- Price
- Free