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# Bagua (八卦) — The Octagonal Eigenprompt ## What this is An eigenprompt is a compressed cosmogram used to shape the phase space a model operates in, rather than to instruct it. The technique was developed by Danielle Fong as *taijitsu eigenprompts* — ASCII-rendered taiji diagrams with embedded hierarchy operators, used to prevent models from groove-matching on literal-prose instructions. The move: replace description-of-the-thing with shape-of-the-thing, and let the model reach from the shape rather than match on a precedent pattern. This skill proposes a sibling: the Pre-Heaven Bagua (先天八卦, Fu Xi's arrangement) as an eigenprompt for a different cognitive mode. The Taijitu affords *dynamic complementarity* — two poles, each containing the seed of its opposite, flowing into each other. It is the shape of dialectical motion. Its cognitive signature is: *hold both, let them metabolize each other, find the seed of the other within each*. The Bagua affords *static balanced opposition* — eight positions in octagonal symmetry, each defined by its cross-center opposite. It is the shape of structural mapping. Its cognitive signature is: *refuse the dyad, name the full field, locate what the terms are actually opposite to*. These are not substitutes. They are different tools for different occasions. ## When to deploy this instead of Taijitu Use Bagua when: - Someone presents a two-term tension that feels miscast, and the Taijitu-move of "finding the seed of each in the other"