When Francis put up my course schedule for 2009, I received not one but a few queries asking the same question: ‘Will I be teaching San Yuan Da Gua?’ Amazingly there ain’t such thing as San Yuan Da Gua but only Xuan Kong Da Gua or San Yuan 64 Guas. Perhaps that is a new term coined. The former is a date selection art while the latter is a water placement art. Xuan Kong was never a Feng Shui art but a fusion divination skill from San Yuan and Mei Hua Yi Shu. Both have their origin in Yi-Jing but not Chou Yi.
Yi-Jing and Chou Yi are two different sets of application. The former predicts the latter advised. Yi-Jing is a prediction of natural occurrences while Chou Yi is an holistic set of advices on what actions one is expected given a certain condition or event.
Another misconception is that Mei Hua Yi Shu is not about converting Early Heaven Gua into Later Heaven Gua to do a reading as commonly taught. It is about the relationship between the numerals and Gua interpretations. It is about converting numerals to Gua and vice versa to ascertain the Early Heaven and Later Heaven relationship.
Well, let us face it. This is the sad state of our once wonderful art of Chinese Metaphysic.
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