Another framework for understanding the changes in 8 mansions(houses)
8 Mansions(part 1) The first post we will begin with, will be about 8 mansions/houses. To understand this some knowledge of both Yi Jing and of 8 mansions/houses can be helpful. 8 mansions/houses is simple Feng Shui system that is very popular today. It assigns a Trigram/Gua/Number to a person based on their year of birth and then it provides 8 directions based on that that will have different impact on them. We can find out what Gua we are around the net, as the calculations are very easy and there aren't many variations doesn't seem that calculator is needed, right now. While there are schools out there that has gone in great depth in how it works, how it connects to other systems and other wonderful parts of it, when it comes to 'why' it works the way it does, there was something I felt missing in all explanation I have found so far. This will be purely theoretical, only focusing on why the Trigram of the person becomes that 8 directions/trigrams after the change, ...