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The eldest daughter I Ching trigram family is the symbol of The Gentle Wind & Wood. According to Wilhelm: The Gentle, the penetrating, is symbolized by the cock, time’s watchman, whose voice pierces the stillness—pervasive as the wind, the image of the Gentle. … The Gentle is wood, wind, the eldest daughter, the guideline […]
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The eldest son in the I Ching family is the symbol for the Arousing Thunder. According to Wilhelm: The Arousing, whose image is thunder, symbolized by the dragon, which, rising out of the depths, soars up to the story sky—in correspondence with the single strong line pushing upward below the two yielding lines. Painting inspired […]
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For Easter Sunday and Passover I’m posting my illustration for the I Ching trigram family, The Receptive Earth. In the I Ching family she is the mother. This trigram has two animals associated with it, the horse and the cow. Like the trigram for The Creative Heaven which is usually associated with the dragon, it […]
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It has been too long since I posted here and even longer since I added to my ongoing process of Creating I Ching Meditations. The Meditations project got delayed while I was working on my book I Ching Inspirations:Paintings & Prescriptions and then creating a Tarot size deck of cards for it. When I began […]
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