We all know that Early Heaven BaGua is a cosmic presentation of ancient Chinese astronomy. While, there are many categories of Early Heaven BaGua representation such as Qian 乾 is the Sky / Heaven, few discussed the solar planets categorization. It is an important fundamental to 5 Elements studies. Have you ever thought about this: [...]
There are 9 spherical ‘heavens’ in Chinese science. Simply put, Feng Shui fundamentally sees Earth’s reference to the rest of the Universe predominately in a geocentric perspective.
The Early Heaven BaGua and Later Heaven BaGua refer to the specific orders of the 9 spheres (or rings if you wish) and in vertical and horizontal perspective.
Is this a diagram on theology or astronomy? Did I say that to understand ancient Chinese Science one requires an esoteric mind? Well, this diagram isn’t from any antiquity of ancient Chinese collections. It came from Thomas Digges of his father’s A Prognostication everlastinge…, published in 1576 in London. There are more background here. Isn’t [...]
To the ancient Chinese, the earth and universal space is made up of interlocking cycles, and for purpose of reading an event or a subject’s life trend, they saw all motions in the heavens (Universe) as one single phenomenon. And, the observations and realities from this one single phenomenon determines the future of the event/Subject. [...]
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