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Freedda

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One way of interpertation, and/or range of meanings associated with the trigrams relates to them as family members, where you have:

Earth: mother
Lake: youngest daughter
Fire: middle daughter
Wind: eldest daughter
Heaven: father
Thunder: eldest son
Abyss: middle son
Mountain: youngest son

I wondering how one might use these 'family members' in a reading? For example, could they sometimes represent actual family dynamics: for example, the tension between an eldest son and his father, or the feelings of the older daughters towards their young sister?

Or perhaps representing energies assocatied with the family: Lake - the youngest daughter's joy and perhaps a bit of self-centeredness; or Wind - the eldest daughter's attention to detail, to having a longer-term view of things; or Abyss - the middle son's uncertainty of his place, or maybe his willingness to take risks (since he doesn't feel the weight of succession upon him)? (Note that some of these are my own associations, others gleaned from others).

One reading I did a while ago involved a woman asking about her relationship with a co-worker. Can't remember the details, except that the two trigrams where two of the 'daughter' trigrams, and that at one point I thought, could this be about the 'sister' dynamics between these two women (which represents a very, very wide range of feelings/responses): love, closeness, rivalary, jockeying for their parent's affections .... sharing clothes, similar tastes and emotions ....

Any thoughts on this aspect of the trigram 'family' in Yi meanings/interpretations?


Best, D.
 
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ai baorui

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I've seen these types of associations in Neo-Confucian, Mei Hua, image number, divination. The work that sticks out is Da Liu, I Ching Numerology, from 1979 looking at Shao Yong (Yung) Plum Blossom
 

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I know I have all those "roles" in myself that needs balance. I can also feel one way inside (lower trigram) and need to relate to others in another way (upper trigram). Anima/animus and id, ego, superego come to mind as well.
 

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One way of interpertation, and/or range of meanings associated with the trigrams relates to them as family members, where you have:

Earth: mother
Lake: youngest daughter
Fire: middle daughter
Wind: eldest daughter
Heaven: father
Thunder: eldest son
Abyss: middle son
Mountain: youngest son

I wondering how one might use these 'family members' in a reading? For example, could they sometimes represent actual family dynamics: for example, the tension between an eldest son and his father, or the feelings of the older daughters towards their young sister?

Or perhaps representing energies assocatied with the family: Lake - the youngest daughter's joy and perhaps a bit of self-centeredness; or Wind - the eldest daughter's attention to detail, to having a longer-term view of things; or Abyss - the middle son's uncertainty of his place, or maybe his willingness to take risks (since he doesn't feel the weight of succession upon him)? (Note that some of these are my own associations, others gleaned from others).

One reading I did a while ago involved a woman asking about her relationship with a co-worker. Can't remember the details, except that the two trigrams where two of the 'daughter' trigrams, and that at one point I thought, could this be about the 'sister' dynamics between these two women (which represents a very, very wide range of feelings/responses): love, closeness, rivalary, jockeying for their parent's affections .... sharing clothes, similar tastes and emotions ....

Any thoughts on this aspect of the trigram 'family' in Yi meanings/interpretations?


Best, D.


Image of a person from the Trigram.
Very useful in Mei Hua, as images of the Trigrams is the main tool there.
For other parts of Yi Jing, less so, as we have so many images its just one more confirmation.

Interestingly, its used a lot in some styles of Feng Shui for predictions what will happen based on the forms and stars in the house.

I can post topic that I like on that, as we can see members predicting the gender of a baby only based on the family relations. But that is because it was a quiz, in the original case the quiz was based from, the practitioner was using Liu Yao instead.
 

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