Kun 坤 is three broken lines (☷): Earth, receptive, the element Earth, and in the Shuo Gua’s family the mother. It is Qian’s exact inverse — every line flipped — and the ring makes that relation physical: Qian’s block of hexagrams ends at due south, Kun’s at due north, directly opposite.
Its two places on the compass
In the Later Heaven palaces Kun holds the southwest: the mountains 未 Wei, 坤 Kun and 申 Shen, from 202.5° to 247.5°. In the Early Heaven arrangement it stands in the north with the number 1, so every hexagram with Kun as its upper trigram carries a 卦氣 of 1 — He Tu Water (一六共宗). Kun and Qian are the pair the ring uses to show its law: 9 and 1 sum to ten, and every hexagram topped by one faces a hexagram topped by the other across the circle.
Its block of the ring, and the hexagrams it tops
The hexagrams with Kun as their lower trigram run from 315° to 360°, ending at due north: 否, 萃, 晉, 豫, 觀, 比, 剝 and 坤 itself (354.375°–360°), carrying the 卦運 9, 4, 3, 8, 2, 7, 6 and 1. The hexagrams Kun tops are 復 (the first segment of the ring, 0°–5.625°), 明夷, 臨, 泰, 升, 師, 謙 and 坤, each with 卦氣 1. The two hexagrams at due north — 坤 ending the ring and 復 opening it — are where the circle closes.
Reading it for a house
A house facing between 315° and 360° has a facing hexagram with Kun as its lower trigram and a sitting hexagram from Qian’s block behind it. A house sitting in the southwest palace reads its water from Kun in the Dragon Gate formula, which is one of the two formations with two leftover palaces for its 輔卦 position. The Shuo Gua ties Kun to the mother and the belly; KAXANTA’s ring reading does not weigh those associations.
References
Canonical sources that inform this guide.
- Feng Shui/Xuan Kong Da Gua/Compass Location · WEBSITE
- Feng Shui/Xuan Kong Da Gua/Binary Representation of the 64 Hexagrams · WEBSITE
- Bagua (Eight Trigrams) · WIKIPEDIA
- I Ching · WIKIPEDIA