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If you’ve read some of my latest posts, you may see the pattern that is emerging. I’m starting to think in terms of the eight, sixteen, and 64 palm changes.
The eight trigrams are the SPC, the DPC, and the smooth palm changes (“something where the single and the double mix”), but they aren’t yang and yin. What I’m proposing is all eight palm changes are really just a variation of the Heaven palm and the sixteen is where yin is taught. I think the eight are all yang based and the sixteen adds the same eight palm changes done from the yin perspective. These would be the eight Earth palms.
By the end of the eight, you understand yang, the force that goes out. By the end of the sixteen, you understand yang and yin.
I’m guessing that the 64 palm changes are really a mixing of the 8 yang palms and the 8 yin palms. All you have to do is decide whether the top or bottom trigram is going to represent the yang or the yin version. So, all of the hexagrams where the trigrams are doubled (the top and the bottom are the same) are really the trigrams done while being aware of both the yang and yin perspective simultaneously. Because at the most basic level there is only “the force that goes out and the force that let’s it all in”.
From this perspective the whole system starts to make sense. The complexity begins to drop away and the one change begins to emerge.
I still don’t feel like I’ve understood the connection between Bagua and the I Ching.
One thought I’ve had is that the I Ching is nothing more than a detailed description of 64 steps in a cycle of change. From this perspective the 8 trigrams could be a simpler version of the same thing: it might be a single cycle broken down into 8 steps. So, you could start going around the Bagua diagram something like this.
1-Heaven) You start expanding your energy.
2-Earth) You continue expanding until the expansive energy begins to interact with itself.
3-Wind) You continue expanding until the expansion starts to condense into the central channel.
4-Thunder) You continue to expand and condense into the central channel in all directions. The energy gathers like small tributaries forming a large river (the flow in the central channel which is expanding outward).
5-Fire) You continue expanding and the energy that is gathering into the central channel begins to flow through channels that connect the inside with the outside.
6-Water) You continue expanding …I like this organization because each step is building on the previous one. I also like that by the end of the sequence you are doing them all simultaneously.
The sum total is one change, THE one change.
In this sequence could the Mountain palm simply be the culmination of the cycle. Yang and yin are in their proper place. Yang is going up (represented by the upper yang line) and yin is going down (represented by the two lower yin lines). There is no conflict, no interaction between those forces other than balance. If so, the Lake palm is the moment when yang expansion (represented by the two lower yang lines) reaches its peak and begins to shift into yin (represented by the single upper broken line). The yin cycle begins and you revisit each trigram from a yin perspective.
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