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It works by reflecting the positions of the trigrams of a Figure in the King Wen or Later Heaven Sequence of Trigrams back into the Fuxi or Early Heaven Sequence. It is a brilliant move that has a solid foundation in Daoist thinking about the relation of these two primal trigram sequences.
I sometimes think of Stephen Karcher as the alchemist of Yijing interpretation, working away in his divination-laboratory and emerging from time to time with new techniques and tools of interpretation for diviners to test out. I’ll always try what he offers, and often find it immensely useful – though by the time I’ve spent a few years using a tool in my own style of reading, it generally seems to ‘wear’ into a different shape from the original.
http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/showthread.php?p=135771#post135771It looks like you just substitute the original trigrams, understood as being from the Hou Tian (Later Heaven) arrangement, for their equivalent in the Xian Tian (Early or Primal Heaven arrangement).
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