Xun 巽 is one broken line beneath two solid ones (☴): Wind, the element Wood, and in the Shuo Gua the eldest daughter. It is Zhen’s inverse, and on the ring its block sits directly across from Zhen’s — the first eight segments after due south.
Its two places on the compass
In the Later Heaven palaces Xun holds the southeast: the mountains 辰 Chen, 巽 Xun and 巳 Si, from 112.5° to 157.5°. In the Early Heaven arrangement it stands in the southwest with the number 2, so every hexagram it tops carries a 卦氣 of 2 — He Tu Fire (二七同道). With Zhen’s 8 it makes ten.
Its block of the ring, and the hexagrams it tops
Xun’s block runs from 180° to 225°, ending at the southwest: 姤 (which opens the second half of the ring at due south), 大過, 鼎, 恆, 巽 itself (202.5°–208.125°), 井, 蠱 and 升, carrying the 卦運 8, 3, 4, 9, 1, 6, 7 and 2. The hexagrams Xun tops — 益, 家人, 中孚, 小畜, 巽, 渙, 漸 and 觀 — each carry 卦氣 2. Like 震 opposite it, 巽 begins exactly on a 大空亡 line, the one at 202.5° between the 離 and 坤 palaces.
Reading it for a house
A house facing between 180° and 225° has a facing hexagram with Xun below and a sitting hexagram from Zhen’s block behind it. A house sitting in the southeast palace (facing roughly northwest) reads its water from Xun in the Dragon Gate formula. The eldest daughter and the thigh are Xun’s Shuo Gua associations; they are classical symbolism, not part of the ring reading KAXANTA computes.
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