Ba gua

For Primal Heaven it's (going from 12:00 clockwise) Chien, Sun, Kan, Ken, Kun, Chen, Li, Tui

Later Heaven it's Li, Kun, Tui, Chien, Kan, Ken, Chen, Sun

For the Dance of Yu on the Circle of Later Heaven (mudras in parentheses) it's done in the order of

• Kun (arms at sides, slightly out),
• Sun (arms at diagonals to sides),
• Li (arms raised in a V),
• Tui (arms raised, palms up but not touching- "Embracing the Moon"),
• Ken (arms out, bent at elbows, palms out at about shoulder height),
• Kan (Tai Chi Ball-Holding),
• Chen (arms out in front, slightly bent at elbows, touching from elbows to wrists, palms apart fingers extended- "Lotus Palm")
• Chien (right hand palm out at brow-level {kind of like a ward-off}, left palm facing right at heart level).

There's also a harmonizing movement at the end of each movement- cross wrists at about heart-level, palms in and fingers touching chest, then reverse hands to palms out, press wrists together, turn a slight sub-circle.

I do the Dance of Yu procedure on with the Later Heaven Circle while visualizing the Primal Heaven arrangement Trigrams on my Chakras/Circuits- as I do the mudras I inhale the Later Heaven Trigram in to the relevant Chakra (going from bottom up)- contemplating how the Primal Heaven becomes the Later heaven and also how the two Trigrams can combine to form a Hexagram and how these processes can aid in my own personal Work.

First stage-

• Kun to Kan- some consider Kan the least auspicious Trigram- the strong Human level shuts out the weaker Heaven and Earth here- Ego uber alles. Drawing Kun's pure Yin in to Kan opens it up-
  next stage-
• Bringing Sun to Kun- Sun in this use represents to me Air the Unconfined- the beginning of thought- strengthening the Human and Heaven levels- the lack of grounding at Earth normally detrimental but a necessary condition at this point.
  
• Next drawing Li to Chen- Chen's rising Earth power facilitated by the receptivity of Human to Heaven and Earth represented by Li.
  
• Drawing Tui to Sun for the next stage regrounds the Air energy (at 4th stage this would be at Anahata- sometimes linked with the Vayu/Air Tattva) and stills it to allow deeper Work to proceed (Tui being a still lake- still waters run deep)-
  
• starting with drawing Ken (Hermits/Immortal's Cave/Underworld Gate) to the pure Yang force of Chien (at the throat Chakra- associated with the black egg of Akasha).
  
• Drawing Kan to the stillness of Ken (in the Ajna Chakra) I see as the Black Earth phase- instigated by the previous Ken/Chien one now has to gestate for the re-emergence-
• drawing Chen's Rising Thunder to the Ken gate and out to the final stage-
  
• drawing pure Yang Chien to the receptive Li- completion of the process- symbolized by the immortal NRG body- refining Jing (body fluids- tamas?) to Chi (NRG-rajas?) to Shen (pure Spirit NRG- Sattva?)

Recent studies have led me to speculate on a connection between this process and the Alchemical process- the first seven stages connecting to Calcination, Solve, Coagula, Sublimation, Mortifacto, Separation and Conjunction, the 8^th representing the final integration (passive/active Li receiving acktive Chien)

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