Placements *Ba Gua and Financials*

K'un looks like an open door. It represents the Earth and is in the winter section of the wheel. This also stands for harmony, flexibility, and receptivity. What better place to start at by assigning Income to this trigram.

This system is to assist in flexibility and with the current financial crisis still looming what best is going to fluctuate more than income.

Income is also placed here for the winter aspect. Winter is a time of reflection, a time of stillness, with this stillness it stays with the old Chinese custom of remaining in Wu and bring action from nothing.

On the opposite site of Income we have Stocks. The Heaven Trigram stands for strength, firmness and creativity. All great signs to put in an important positive account, however it is also right across the open door I talked about, and can be receptive from the open door but also can flow right out of that door as well.

It takes a firm stand and constant observance to handle stocks and with a little creativity it can make you some serious cash, however with the open door it can also loose money as well.

Lets go to Li or the Fire Trigram. This trigram stands for intelligence, attention, and awareness. What better place to put a savings, more specifically savings v.3. This savings can also be interchanged with project money for around the house, or the money you could save if certain habits were no more. It takes some attention and awareness to create this account. Think of it as a filtration system. Sections of your life can be dropping money without you realizing it, instead of allowing this to flow out, put it into this sweeper account.

On the opposite side is water. Water has things like desire, passion, and danger linked to it. I figure this is the very best place for a Primary Savings section. Creating a Saving account should be the most desirable thing a person has (exception of the spouse). The financial future depends on a triad. Savings, 401K, and Stocks. Savings though will allow you to not jeopardize the second or third. So it should be the full desire to increase savings as much as possible.

The Chen (Thunder) trigram has attributed to it Activity, initiative, and movement. What better Financial term to put here due to the activity but Bills. Bills are the #1 mover of your money. So Thunder pretty much scores itself as the evil trigram of financing. Actually it is not an evil Trigram at all, we lump key things in this trigram to offset the negative aspect of money going out the door. This trigram has 2 open Yin but has the safety of the Yang to help isolate the money going out.

Across from Chen is Sun. The wind trigram has obedience, initiation, and penetration. This is where the project goes. What is the Project??? It is the concept before the sweeper. This is a savings account with a specific purpose, if you don't have a purpose for this create one anyways and make is a point to supply it every week or double it for twice a month. You could even state you are paying yourself for living. A small nominal fee. 40 bucks a week at first and then after a year increase it for cost of living.

Next we have the Mountain Trigram. Ken trigram stands for stopping, stabilization, and stillness. This is perfect for your 401k to reside. Your 401k is your stable foundation for later in life. Although it can be pushed and shoved into different mutual funds it is good to practice according to the times. If rough times this account should stay still (in other words in a safer mutual fund). Since this is a stabilizer one should contribute the most they can as early as they can to this account. At least get the company match fully maxed out.

And last but not least is the valley/lake trigram. T'ui trigram is associated with Pleasing, enjoyment, and joy. What better joy can one have but to assist other people. Of course in a financial aspect money spent outside of bills should be money returned. This section is for loans you give out to assist fellow humanity, but as they are loans they come back to the Ba Gua in time.

You short sell yourself to build up the cash that was loaned out, you tend to sacrifice some things in order to save money, by the time you get back to or surpass the amount that was loaned out the life style goes back to normal, however when the shorting comes back you immediately place into savings. The aspect of this area is to be 0 or in the negative, but mostly at 0.

So you now have the 8 Trigrams named, later I will discuss how to use these. Also with 8 Trigrams comes the 64 paths. If you expecting this system to be done over night, well it will not work that way. I must test things, view things and think about how certain sections should react to each other.