What is qian? I always find this the hardest trigram to describe. Mountains are big and rocky and don’t move; plants grow and move in the wind. Water flows and reflects, fire illuminates and burns, thunder crashes, earth sustains. But what does heaven do? And what does it mean for… Read more »Heaven inside (part 1)
Heaven, as inner trigram, always seems to be asking, can this be realised? How, or how completely, or how directly? There’s an inner energy seeking expression or realisation through the outer trigram – perhaps it’s the potential in the situation asked about, or the true inner nature of the questioner,… Read more »Heaven inside (part 2)
When qian, heaven, is the inner trigram, it might be realised through… Then what? The remaining two hexagrams with qian inside are 34, Great Vigour – heaven inside thunder – and 43, Deciding – heaven inside the lake. Creative force expressed through swift initiative? and through joyful interaction? Hexagram 34,… Read more »Heaven inside (part 3)
