Week 7: An Outer Order

The Houtian arrangement and correlative cosmology

5 April 2027

A second, genuinely different logic over the same eight trigrams: not a binary count, but a mapping onto season and direction grounded in the Shuogua zhuan.

Outline#

• the Houtian arrangement’s correlative logic (Li/Fire at summer, Kan/Water at winter, as the clearest example)
• a direct structural contrast with Xiantian (week 6)
• why the course studies both rather than ranking them