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Now we come to the first and easiest way to practice feng shui. The Pa Kua has many different rings with varying attributes to enhance your home.

I call this the Eight Aspirations of Mankind method as signified by the eight root trigrams of the I Ching that are placed around the eight-sided Pa Kua. Note that each side represents one direction. So as there are eight sides, all the eight directions of the compass around a central point are accounted for.

From the preceding pages we have already learned how to take directions and how to identify the different directions and sectors of the home. Now we will need to analyze the Yang Pa Kua in order to transfer the attributes of each of the eight sides of the Pa Kua onto your home and to do this in such a way that the quality of the chi in each sector of your home is enhanced with preliminary, but extremely fundamental, feng shui techniques.

First study the many layers of meanings associated with each of the eight different sides of the Yang Pa Kua shown here. Note that every direction sector contains different attributes that offer clues to how that part of any living space can be activated, energized, and enhanced. The energy of each sector also has a yin or a yang aspect and every sector is representative of the Element energy assigned to that sector under this arrangement of the trigrams. In the following pages the practical implications of each of the layers shown in the Pa Kua will be explained. Later, when we learn to go deeper and start to use the formulas of feng shui, the attributes of the directions as shown in the Pa Kua will take on even deeper and greater significance, so do spend some time studying these attributes.

From the Yang Pa Kua may be derived many rings of characteristics and element symbolism that give meaning to compass sectors.