"Fire, walk with me." The Rooster Shape Baguazhang by Kevin Wikse.

 

Birthed from the Fire Gua or Trigram of the I-Ching, Rooster Shape Baguzhang is an animistic personification of fire. Explosive, quick, and always moving, the action of the Rooster is that of a flame's ability to leap to new and nearby sources of fuel. The Rooster hops and struts like the pops and snaps of a long string of firecrackers; each step and movement of the Rooster is sharp, fast, and powerful. 

Fire Gua

The Fire Gua or Trigram of the I-Ching is drawn as two unbroken yang lines, top and bottom, with a split ying line sandwiched between them, which denotes the idea that fire possesses qualities of circling and clinging, spiraling around and engulfing its fuel sources. Even while expanding outward, the fire's primary movement is upward (if only to generate power for the downward). 

The Rooster is the same, utilizing rapid spiral stepping, launching kicks, knees, palm strikes, palm/backhand whips (mimicking a rooster's wings flapping), slicing elbows, and chopping strikes up and down the attacker's center line with a machine gun rapidity. Rooster overtakes its opponents, similar to how something catches fire. When introducing a new fuel source to the flame, it clings and spreads quickly, devouring it. The Rooster shape sticks to and follows the attacker with a barrage of offense. The opponent is forced into a defensive strategy, more worried about their survival than fighting back. 

The Rooster's upward attacks take full advantage of the spaces in an attacker's defense as they defensively cover-up, attempting to protect themselves. The Rooster strategy likes to leap and hop from opening to opening. An onslaught of attacks from the Rooster has the attacker desperately defending their head, leaving their knees or torso exposed and vulnerable. The Rooster's leaps and hops are for distance control and crushing the opponent's foot and toes. Everything is a valid target for the Rooster. As such, it excels in limb destruction and close-range savagery. 

The energy of Rooster is akin to Muay Thai. I have been told this by Muay Thai fighters whose faces I've cut open with Rooster Shape's elbows and found themselves being dominated by Rooster's clinching scheme, which is as ruthless and sophisticated as theirs but free from the parameters of "sport" they have imbued themselves with. 

The Rooster Shape of my Baguazhang is a violent but beautiful expression of martial animism merging with the elemental for humans to embody. The dedicated practice of the Rooster Shape promotes full body endurance and improves overall conditioning. The movements stretch and tone the tendons and muscles, which run primarily along the heart meridian, improving blood circulation and cardio function. The hops and leaps improve balance, leg strength, and coordination and strengthen the feet while ridding the body of excess fluids, reducing inflammation and swelling. 

Energetically the Rooster builds confidence, stoking the force of will to start projects and seek opportunities. Shamanic/Daoist belief is that practicing the Rooster boosts one's "yang" energy, producing an aura of self-promotion and increasing personal magnetism. This spiritual influence leads to periods of peace and prolonged. Prosperity due to the influx of new friends and opportunities. Peace because most negative entities know the Rooster is extremely ferocious and want to avoid you. 

I plan to make my Baguazhang available to the public very soon. I look forward to introducing the complete system of Rooster Shape Baguazhang and sharing with you all the immense benefits its practice has blessed me with. 

-Kevin Wikse

Vimana Vajra Baguazhang

Pancha Tattwa Shuddi: Agni-Fire by Kevin Wikse.

The summer solstice nears, and for the astralnaut, or vimana pilot, their thoughts, now in a purified air space, will naturally incline themselves toward Lord Agni, the element of fire, and the red triangle Tattwa, for which RAM is the sacred vibration hidden inside. Within the Pancha Tattwa, Agni, or fire, is the chief cleansing agent of the five great elemental alchemical components. 

Without robust and clean fire energy, the pollution and contamination of the entire Pancha Tattwa are guaranteed. Agni is responsible for how clean burning your internal combustion is. Your inner fire "digestion" devours as much of the organic fuel you put inside your body, rendering it into concentrated bodily waste to be expelled or exhausted through various states of matter or mixtures of states of matter, solid (excrement), liquid (sweat, urine, and discharge) and gas (exhales, and flatulence), purifying the blood and allowing better thinking and cognitive abilities. The more powerful your personal Agni, the more efficient this natural purification process will be. Thereby cleansing the other four material Tattwas or elemental building structures. 

Agni exists with the three worlds (material, subtle and casual) and the nearly innumerable variations of loci or locations which reside with those three words. How Angi performs his duties in the material body (in the example stated above), Agni performs similar duties within your other two bodies (subtle and casual). Within the subtle body, your personal Agni is an internal astral bodyguard. Angi is called "He with a thousand eyes and a thousand spears." Agni is your warrior spirit and your will to fight and overcome. Agni is an offensive and defensive component of your aura, seeing (a thousand eyes) in all directions and aggressively holding the line (a thousand spears) against anyone or anything that comes against you. 

The majority have weak, sluggish Agni. Smothered under a mountain of processed food, scattered by unfocused thoughts, and wasted on petty, fruitless desires. As such, their thinking is confused, and their actions are erratic. Their material bodies are poisoned by undigested, decaying, and rotting food. Their auras are dim, and they lack astral defenses. They are exceedingly likely to be puppeted and steered by parasitic non-physical intelligence, many alien and hostile. These people are dangerous. They are confused, stupid, lazy, and selfish. Be compassionate to them, live a life that inspires them to improve, but always be wary of them. 

The development and purification of personal Agni burn away impurities that feed and help anchor non-physical entities (this type tends to be overwhelmingly evil) in your energy matrix. It burns away blockages and hindrances which stifle your vital energy and brings clarity to thought, action, and deed. The better, smoother you circulate your energy, the higher your vitality will be. Your capability to focus your will and achieve and accomplish will significantly increase. Your aura will become like an army of spartan warriors. 

Specific to the astralnaut, the hotter and cleaner your personal Agni, the faster your divine vehicle will fly and the longer and further it can travel. The vimana will contain increased martial capabilities, ensuring the efficaciousness of your work and intent. 

Mantra:

Om Ram Agnaye Namah

Repetition of Mantra:

108 times.

Frequency of Mantra: 

Morning to burn away obstacles between you and success, reduce any astral parasite or other non-physical intelligence picked up or accumulated while dreaming (hitchhikers) to ash, and ignite your external and internal digestive fire and combustion mechanisms.

Before bed, burn away petty concerns and prepare and energize the vimana for Dreamtime operations and for any unscheduled or opportunistic chances at lucid dreaming and or astral projection. 

-Kevin Wikse

Originally posted to Astral Defense Force