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YES NO
Here is a computer. It is a thing YES .. We need to supply it with
doing NO-thing. What do we need energy, we need to switch it ON
to make it run?
NO YES
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=
Time Space
So now they didnt only have energy and mass, but could work with the
result of the interaction between energy and mass.
The Chinese binomial most frequently
translated as kosmos is yuzhou, a term that
overtly expresses the interdependence between
time and space.
Daodejung, Ames and Hall,(2003).
The The Shock Clarity The The Keeping The The eight
Creative Joyous Thunder The Abyss Gently Still Recep- trigrams
Heaven Lake (birth) Sun The Penetra- Mount- tive
Moon ting ain Earth
Four Hsiang
Tao
Change lines to 1s and 0s in your imagination and you will see that
POLAR OPPOSITES
The I Ching is a BINARY + SYSTEM.
Leibniz was interested in the binary system. He could see that it could be
used as the basis of a new language. In 1666, he acquired an I Ching. This
is what Time Life Books says in Computer Basics.
In 1716, fascinated by Leibnizs ideas, the Scottish mathematician
George Boole created a logic system with the AND, OR and NOT,
gates Leibniz had only wondered about.
Oily gears
and shafts
INTERNET!
So now we understand that this binary system also underpins our modern
web based world.
Next we need to decide whether the meanings carried by the I Ching
trigrams correlate with the meanings acquired through combining the binary
system with Astrology. Born of isolated cultures unless there is a
foundation connection there is no logical reason why they should.
The primal pair are made up of all YES lines and called the Creative
Basic Rules of the I Ching
Heaven, Chien, and all NO lines and called the Receptive Earth, Kun.
THE EVOLUTION of the TRIGRAMS
The The Shock Clarity The The Keeping The The eight
Creative Joyous Thunder The Abyss Gently Still Recep- trigrams
Heaven Lake (birth) Sun The Penetra- Mount- tive
Moon ting ain Earth
Four Hsiang
Tao
POLAR OPPOSITES
On the astrological model this gives us Aquarius for the Creative and
Capricorn for the Receptive.
Capricorn is ruled by Saturn, and in relation to this model its worth noting
that before the discovery of Uranus (in 1781) Aquarius was also ruled by
Saturn. In astrology Saturn is the element earth at its most structured: stones,
bones, teeth, walls, boundaries, and, when applied to human endeavours,
secular authority.
Here is Saturn in his role as Old Father Saturns partner is a powerful dis-
Time : Saturn is indispensible but he is ruptive force, Revolutionary Uranus:
inflexible. This is Riga Mortis: NO, NO, NO. the awakener. YES, YES, YES.
KUN CHIEN
Leo is fixed fire, Aries is cardinal fire and Libra is cardinal air. The ruling planets are
the Sun, Mars, and Venus. We have already looked at fixed air, Aquarius. The upper
line is always yang on fixed signs and always yin on cardinal signs - I am not yet sure
why but I am sure this is the case. Perhaps the power to make manifest is cardinal?
And look! The trigram Li which means Clarity and whose symbol is the Sun turns
up as Leo, fixed fire. Leos ruling planet is the Sun! Aries, cardinal fire, ruled by
the warlike planet Mars, is Chen, Shock, Thunder. Both Mars and Chen mean
birth. Libra, ruled by Venus, cardinal air, is Tui, the Joyous Lake.
Fixed Cardinal
Cardinal Fixed
Cardinal Fixed
This is a slide from the first lesson I give on astrology. I have added the tri-
grams so that you can see how beautifully they organise themselves on the
Zodiac. I have put the Zodiac up Ptolemaically with Cancer and Leo at the
base. Aries, the first sign, begins at the spring equinox, Aries is 1-1-1.
Secta:
positive 1 3 2
negative 2 4 2 1
1
Quadruplicities: 3
1 2
3
1 2 1 4
Cardinal 1 1 1 2
2
Fixed 2 2
2 2
1 2 1 2
1
1 3
Mutable 3 3 3
1 2
Four Elements: 3 2
Fire 1 Earth 2 4 1
Air 3 Water 4
We have trigrams for cardinal and fixed signs but not for the four
mutables, so now that I have introduced the eight trigrams we can check
out these missing mutable signs - first a look at a very ancient model - the
Fu Hsi or King Wen arrangement.
Here it is, scanned from my original
Chinese edition translated by
Wilhelm into German and Baynes
(from Wilhelm s translation) into
English.
Wilhelm tells us that the eight
primary trigrams are named in a
sequence of pairs that, according to
tradition, goes back to Fu Hsi that
is to say, it was already in existence
at the time of the compilation of the
book of changes under the Chou
dynasty. It is called the Sequence of
Earlier Heaven, or Primal
Arrangement .
This is translated literally as
Before-the-World-Sequence.
There are modern writers who
explain this ancient model as an
expression of the dynamic reaction
of opposites but you will see that this
analysis is not strictly accurate.
They do indeed represent positive
and negative polarities but (apart
from Sun and Moon) they are,
astrologically, polarities that
originally shared a single planetary
ruler. On the Anima Mundi they are
named Complementary Connections
the yang-yin, energy-mass, space-
time expression of a meaningful
whole.
The Sun and Moon offer us a
good example of what
complementary means. Sun and
Moon in astrology, Father and
Mother, might be poles apart in
function, but they are essential to
each others operation they work
as a team. Complementary means
to make complete.
Researching data for this
presentation I came across this in
Wilhelms translation of the Ta
Chuan. I am delighted to learn that
my choice of title for these connections is exonerated: they balance each other. YES!
Here they are again with
old planetary rulers added.
Pos Neg
When we consult the oracle we throw three coins six times, one throw for each line.
Six throws of the coins, beginning from the bottom and working up, gives us a
hexagram.
Tails count as two, they are YIN because they tell us the divisible value of the
coins. We buy things we need using that value. Heads count as three. We know that
one is heavens number but we are physical beings consulting the oracle in a physical
world, so we add that one to two and count three for heads. Heads represent the
idea of authority, the authority invested in the coin, a concept that is indivisible.
Unstable lines give us two hexagrams. The changing lines tell us the actions that
we are applying to the unchanging hexagram. This is all explained in another
presentation for now you just need to know the symbols that apply to unstable lines.
Now we can check out the Mutable Signs. This is where the correlations
get interesting. I shall begin with Pisces, mutable water, ruled by the planet
Neptune.
MUTABLE
In Astrology, Pisces, the fishes, rules the Twelfth House, the house just
above the Ascendant. The Ascendant, representative of 00 Aries on the
diurnal chart, is the place of birth, so planets in the twelfth can be
understood as assembling themselves in a womb.
The month belonging to Pisces has both snow and snowdrops. Is it
winter or spring? Everything is in flux but there is a promise in the air.
Neptune has no fixed form but is full of expectation.
dolphin embryo
and
human embryo
So here is an example of a mutable sign made up of a mix of cardinal and fixed
in the element water. Remember, I explained that The Gently Penetrating
means both wind and wood. The hexagram The Well gives us an image of
roots drawing up water from Kan, The Abyss, or a wooden bucket doing the
same job. The second hexagram is called Dissolution. The Ching says: wind
blowing over the water disperses it as mist: Neptune is connected
astrologically with mist and fog. These hexagrams are neither fixed Scorpio
nor cardinal Cancer, but both. By a change in the top line of the trigram from
yin to yang we get a portrait of a double-bodied sign.
C F
F C
CHING HUAN
The Well Dissolution
This is my favourite example. Here is the King on Mount Olympus
brandishing his thunder bolt: Greek Zeus, Roman Jupiter, ruler of Sag. Leo
is the king. The I Ching says: The king attains abundance be not sad be
like the sun at midday. We call Jupiter The Law Giver. The I Ching tells us
that in Biting Through laws are laid down, in Abundance they are applied and
enforced.
C F
F C
FENG SHIH HO
Abundance Biting through
Here is mutable earth the hexagram Modesty - does this sound like Virgo?
I have explained in previous presentations why I think Chiron and all the
asteroids between Jupiter and Mars rule Virgo they are a proto planet in
bits and they explain this hexagram Splitting Apart. The I Ching tells us that
devotion and docility will see us through. These are monastic qualities highly
valued by the nuns of the Virgin in the previous age and my friend Nick
Oakley-Smith writes about Virgos critical analysis breaking things apart.
C F
F C
CHIEN PO
Modesty Splitting Apart
In Breakthrough: the I Ching In Treading we are told the superior
says one must resolutely make man discriminates between High and Low
the matter known in the court of and fortifies the thinking of the people.
the king. Mercury is the This hexagram describes a young tiger
messenger of the gods isnt he? It biting dads tail. Its a warning to take care
adds it must be announced when playing with ideas. Does Mercury
truthfully. This might be difficult for play with ideas? I think he does.
Mercury.
C F
F C
INFLUENCE, WOOING
Remember a hexagram grows from the base up, like this little flower.
Doubling the trigrams gave the
ancient oracle masters sixty-four
separate situation hexagrams. I
like my friend Suzies word when
consulting the oracle she says the
hexagrams supply CONTEXT.
Here is a page showing all of
the hexagrams. It is from The
Wilhelm I Ching.
We have looked at 31, Wooing,
and we have looked at the
hexagrams that describe the
mutable signs; 10, Treading and
43, Breakthrough: these are
Mercurial. 15, Modesty, and 23,
Splitting Apart: these are
Virgoan. 21, Biting Through, and
55, Abundance: these are
Jupitarian, 48, The Well, and 59,
Dissolution - Neptunian. Now we
need to take a look at the all-
important primal pair.
1. The Creative Heaven
2.The Receptive Earth
EARTH AIR
WATER FIRE
Yes yes yes yes yes yes ... action, action, action, action, action, action.
The Creative Heaven, we are told, is strong and untiring.
Shout STOP at the Sun or Moon or stars, expect our planet to stop in its
tracks and see if it has any effect. On the Anima Mundi, The Creative is
responsible for our right brain processes air and fire, thinking and intuition
- these work complementarily with our receptive left brain.
We are constructed out of the material of The Receptive Earth. She is
mother nature, she supplies the food that sustains us, responding to all our
needs. In our cognitive system she is earth and water, sensing and feeling,
in our brains it is her job to connect our consciousness to its internal and
external physical environment.
AIR EARTH
FIRE WATER
So .. are we clear on this point? The Receptive
and The Creative are a single interacting unit.
Before After
The Creative The Receptive
Completion Completion
1 2
64 63
All hexagrams have ruling lines that convey their meaning most
expressively. You can see that if we line the Zodiac up according to the
Ptolemaic Order the ruling lines of the hexagrams define the equinoxes.
YANG YIN
YIN YANG
YANG YIN
YIN YANG
YANG YIN
YIN YANG
In The Book of Revelation ,Time is described as a dragon waiting
to devour mother Earths children from the moment they are born.
Here he is.
The Receptive
Earth.
And this is The Receptive Earths ruling line.
A cube symbolises space. A cube has three dimensions that we can move
around in - up down - side to side - back to front. This mouse is exploring
these dimensions. Of course he also needs time to do this exploring in - he
couldnt do this not for one moment - without the Creative, which is why
physicists sometimes call time the fourth dimension. This line applies, of
course, to our primal instincts which this mouse is also utilising to explore
this space.
So now we are
coming to the end of
this presentation.
Here is a hand
drawn version of this
integrated model
published in the
Astrological Journal,
July/August 1991. I
had forgotten how
long ago it was that I
came up with this
combination of the two
systems of Astrology
and the I Ching.
Soon after, my
young friend Nick Oakley-Smith also wrote an interesting article published in
the Journal on this same subject. Charles Harvey, the then President of the
Astrological Association, was a friend and he and Roger Eliot were interested
in my ideas, but when they died the interest faded away.
The time was not right.
The next diagrams are from my academic essay Treading on the Tigers
Tail (remember Gemini, Treading). I wrote this essay in 2006. Treading is
the title of the hexagram the I Ching gave me when I began writing this
essay, during the writing, and at the completion.
In this essay I asked; Is there an archetypal constant?
Clearly there is, but in a university environment where known facts are
sacrosanct and creativity frowned upon I was up to no good. I caused a
kerfuffle. The first marker was so impressed with this essay he gave me
unusually high marks and that worried the second marker who remarked
you cant make eight trigrams fit with twelve signs, and marked me down.
Did I mind? No - the oracle warned me that I was stomping on the
mores.
I included genetics in
my essay once eight
Computer Binary control genes developed
there was a long period
called The Cambrian
Explosion when
mutations flourished.
Astrological
Binary
LAST WORDS. There you have it. These two esoteric systems work
because they are based on something real ...
WAKE UP
Please ....
THE
END