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What is one supposed to make of this?
-rosada
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Now winter ensues, in the trigram K'an, the Abysmal.
K'an, in the north - the place of the Receptive in the Primal Arrangement - is symbolized by the gorge.
Now comes the toil of gathering the crops into the barns. Water shuns no effort, always seeking the lowest level, so that everything flows to it; in the same way, winter in the course of the year, and midnight in the course of the day, are the time of concentration.
-Wilhelm
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The trigram Keeping Still, whose symbol is the mountain, is of mysterious significance. Here, in the seed, in the deep hidden stillness, the end of every thing is joined to a new beginning. Death and life, dying and resurrection - these are the thoughts awakened by the transition from the old year to the . . . the northwest stands for the time of solitude, when the old is brought to an end and the new is begun.
-Wilhelm
Only the action of the six derived trigrams is described here.
It is the action of the spiritual, which is not a thing among things, but the force that manifests its existence through the various effects of thunder, wind, and so on.
The six children ☳ ☴ ☵ ☲ ☶ ☱ then represent the projection of ☰ into ☷.
If this idea is correct, then the Earlier Heaven arrangement of the trigrams represents the macrocosm.
7. THE ATTRIBUTES
The Creative is strong.
The Receptive is yielding.
The Arousing means movement.
The Gentle is penetrating.
The Abysmal is dangerous.
The Clinging means dependence.
Keeping Still means standstill.
The Joyous means pleasure.
8. THE SYMBOLIC ANIMALS
The Creative acts in the horse,
The Receptive in the cow,
The Arousing in the dragon,
The Gentle in the cock,
The Abysmal in the pig,
The Joyous in the sheep.
-Wilhelm
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Gosh this is great, pocossin!
I wish you would post for all the trigrams....
Thanks,
Rosada
Haven't we sort-of had this conversation before? You know, not everyone can see what you see... until you point to it. And then we still have the experience of recognition... or we don't, as the case may be... but you may have created a possibility that just wasn't there for us before.
7. THE ATTRIBUTES
The Creative is strong.
The Receptive is yielding.
-Wilhelm
In my opinion, Qian possesses multiple characters such as the creative, perseverance (in terms of healthy, strong, vigorous etc, . . . )
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9. THE PARTS OF THE BODY . . . the Gentle in the thighs . . . The thighs under their covering branch downward . . .
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Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).