Eight Trigrams and the elements of nature
 

The basic eight trigrams encompass all the elements of nature.

They are the Heaven (sky), Earth, Water, Fire, Air (wind), wood, mountains and lakes. These symbols denote all of mother nature, and all these elements are giving their blessings to us.

The hexagram or the I-CHing is an extension of the basic eight trigrams, with one trigram on top of another one. It is actually a binary system, which the computer literate folks will find very familiar..

Usually it is sky, lake, fire, thunder, wind, water, mountain, earth. Were you taught the way you listed? Or it looks like you are mixing Five Element Theory (Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal), and Bagua.

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look - someone came up with new cave man writing symbols instead of trigrams

it's not letting me post an image - so I can't show you the new symbols -- it's from Tao Oracle by Ma Deva Padma





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okay it let me post a link - so you can see

Heaven - Earth - Fire - Water - Wind - Thunder - Lake - Mountain