Li 離 is one broken line between two solid ones (☲): Fire, the element Fire, and in the Shuo Gua the middle daughter. The San Yuan calendar pairs Period 9 with Li (九紫離火), which is why Li is named so often in 2024–2044. In Xuan Kong Da Gua, though, the period verdict does not favour a trigram: it asks whether a hexagram pair’s 卦運 falls in the half of the cycle the period belongs to.
Its two places on the compass
In the Later Heaven palaces Li holds the south: the mountains 丙 Bing, 午 Wu and 丁 Ding, from 157.5° to 202.5°. In the Early Heaven arrangement it stands in the east with the number 3, so every hexagram it tops carries a 卦氣 of 3 — He Tu Wood (三八為朋). With Kan’s 7 it makes ten.
Its block of the ring, and the hexagrams it tops
Li’s block runs from 45° to 90°, ending at due east: 明夷, 賁, 既濟, 家人, 豐, 離 itself (73.125°–78.75°), 革 and 同人, carrying the 卦運 3, 8, 9, 4, 6, 1, 2 and 7. The hexagrams Li tops — 噬嗑, 離, 睽, 大有, 鼎, 未濟, 旅 and 晉 — each carry 卦氣 3.
Period 9, and reading it for a house
Period 9 belongs to 下元, so in 2024–2044 a pair is timely when its 卦運 is 6, 7, 8 or 9, whatever its trigrams — a Li-topped hexagram with 卦運 1 is no more timely than any other. A house facing between 45° and 90° has a facing hexagram with Li below and a sitting hexagram from Kan’s block behind it. A house sitting in the south palace (facing north) reads its water from Li in the Dragon Gate formula. The middle daughter and the eye are Li’s Shuo Gua 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