Reply To: The Infinite Wisdom of the I Ching (The Book of Changes)

[Bera]

@rondo - there is a lot of information here that I need to process and I haven't managed to check the links, but you caught me with this thread.
And leaving divination aside just for a bit (I will come back to that later) - since there are 8..family members, do you think they can represent the functions ? I mean :

Father – Ch’ien the Creative whose attribute is Strength and whose image is Heaven.
Mother – K’un the Receptive whose attributes are Devoted and Yielding, and whose image is the Earth.
First Son – Chen the Arousing whose attribute is Inciting Movement and whose image is Thunder.
Second Son – K’an the Abysmal whose attribute is Dangerousness and whose image is Water.
Third Son – Ken the Keeping Still whose attribute is Resting and whose image is the Mountain.
First Daughter – Sun the Gentle whose attribute is Penetrating and whose image is Wind/Wood.
Second Daughter – Li the Clinging whose attribute is Light-giving and whose image is Fire.
Third Daughter – Tui the Joyous whose attribute is Joyfulness and whose image is the Lake.

I am not sure how to make the connections, but I think if this is correct, Father and Mother should represent functions that are on the same axis and the same should be true for First Son and First Daughter, Second Son and Second Daughter and Third Son and Third Daughter.
This actually shows here - they look like pairs of opposites :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagua#/media/File:Bagua-name-earlier.svg
The strange thing is that some time ago I imagined some symbols of functions arranged in a circle. Like the zodiac. And then I thought maybe not exactly a circle but something close to a circle...:) Now I see a possible way of depicting it. 🙂
Another wild guess - if they are the functions (which I suppose is true because they reflect everything there is, right?), the symbols might show some CT signals too ! Because just looking at them, they seem to show certain patterns of movement/concentration of energy...
I have to check what exactly strength and receptivity represent. Is strength the heavy one and receptivity the light one? Or is it the other way? 🙂 Because Earth would normally be the heavy one and Heaven the light one, but strength, force sounds heavy to me, compared to receptivity.
I can see how Thunder starts with an unbroken line and then it has 2 broken lines - I think this shows the first sound the thunder makes (the unbroken line) and the rolls and rumbles (the broken lines)
Or Li - Fire - there is a broken line inside and two unbroken lines outside, above and below it (which is the opposite to her Brother K'an, the Abysmal, that has one unbroken line inside and 2 broken lines above and below it).
I don't understand this completely but here I think the unbroken lines outside (in Li) show extroversion (fire burning) and the opposite, with the receptive lines outside and the forceful one inside, well, introversion...the gorge. 🙂
I think it's too early to say, hey, looks like Fe and Ti. :)) The Flame & the Void, Fire and Abyss. But I don't know the system and the culture ! I just feel maybe they could be correlated, which would be awesome.