What does Elemental Relationships mean in Xuan Kong Da Gua?

In Xuan Kong Da Gua, the element numbers of the 64-hexagram ring: each hexagram carries a 卦氣, its upper trigram’s Early Heaven number, whose He Tu element is 1·6 Water, 2·7 Fire, 3·8 Wood or 4·9 Metal. A building’s facing and sitting hexagrams always have 卦氣 that sum to ten (合十). KAXANTA does not grade a building on the element relation of its two palaces.

Xuan Kong Da Gua · Glossary

Elemental Relationships

In Xuan Kong Da Gua, the element numbers of the 64-hexagram ring: each hexagram carries a 卦氣, its upper trigram’s Early Heaven number, whose He Tu element is 1·6 Water, 2·7 Fire, 3·8 Wood or 4·9 Metal.

What this means

A building’s facing and sitting hexagrams always have 卦氣 that sum to ten (合十). KAXANTA does not grade a building on the element relation of its two palaces.

In practice

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