In Feng Shui Bagua literally means "Eight Symbols"
Bagua literally means “Eight Symbols”,.
The ordering of the Eight Trigrams comes in two basic arrangements: “Early Heaven Sequence” and “Later Heaven Sequence”. Both sequences were developed before the ‘Book of Changes’, the I Ching, which describes the cosmology and philosophy of ancient Chinese. Early Heaven Sequence is also called the Primordial Bagua, The River Chart (HeTu) and is an arrangement of opposites it refers to the order of things at creation, this sequence (Primordial Bagua ) shows perfect balance it consists of opposite poles and duality, all the elements are balanced in perfect harmony but it has no motion or fluidity.
Primordial Bagua is a snapshot of the universe at the very beginning “The Bagua Bang”.
This sequence is PERFECTION”. Feng Shui practitioners create remedies by merging these solutions and using the Later Heaven Sequence as a roadmap to get back to or achieve perfect balance. These Sequences are over 3,000 years old.The Later Heaven Sequence it is used extensively in Feng Shui. Remedies and solutions are calculated by merging the Lo Shu with the Later Heaven Sequence and by fusing Elements, Location, Family, Direction and Time.
The Bagua above is based on Later Heaven Sequence; it’s a visual representation of the relationship between each of the Feng Shui solutions.
“Primordial” and “Fu Xi” Bagua sequence
The Early Heaven Sequence (Primordial Bagua ) shows perfect balance it consists of opposite poles and duality, all the elements are balanced in perfect harmony but it has no motion or fluidity. This is a snapshot of the universe at the very beginning “The Bagua Bang” . This sequence is “PERFECTION”, in some ways we are using Feng Shui and its solutions like Lo Shu, 5 Elements, Directions (Lo Pan compass), Time and Flying Stars Charts to get back to “PERFECTION”.
Modern day Feng Shui practitioners create remedies by merging these solutions and using the Later Heaven Sequence (Fu Xi) as a roadmap to get back there or achieve perfect balance.
These Sequences are over 3,000 years old, looking at similarities between this Ancient tradition and modern society; our lives are completely dominated by computers they run on the Binary system, so computers do all their calculations using only 1’s and 0’s (plus & minus, black & white, Ying & Yang, on & off) for everything; whether it’s adding two simple numbers like 1+1 or keeping astronauts alive on the international space station the starting point is the same 1’s and 0’s. Coincidence, maybe I’ll let you decide.