Compass directions in the Yi Jing

[IrfanK]

I know that in one of the trigram circles, North is Water, winter, danger, cold and South is Fire, summer, connection growth. Does that probably reflect the world views from the early Chinese centers? That the north is cold and dangerous? the South is warm and fertile? Any good articles or resources that go into this?

I was just listening to an English friend, a woman from the south, talking about a relationship she had with a guy from the north. Lots of hilarious culture clashes. Funny how compass directions do mean something, even if its different in different places. But in old China, those ideas must have solidified over centuries.

 

[hilary]

Yes, the trigram places in the bagua do seem to feed into the use of compass points in the Yi. So too does the local geography: the Zhou's allies were to the south and west of them, while the Shang were to the north and east.