Chakra

	0 energy. Field, particle?	EARTH
	1 to be , manifestation	FIRE
	2 I and you, touching, arousing	THUNDER
	3 unique. 'My' feelings as distinct from yours	LAKE
	4 seeing and accepting, making choices	WATER
	5 expressionof my being is my gift to world	WIND
	6 the temple (I and Atman are one)	MOUNTAIN
	7 light. Movement?, wave?	HEAVEN

(6 individuality: high form is one with atman, but it goes all the way from ego to atman. Mountain stands on the earth and reaches from there up to heaven)

Outer trigram fire shows of every inner trigram how it is visible
35 of earth: the power of earth, mating the horses and multiplying them, turning earth's gifts into life
30 of fire: is manifestation itself, discerning, separating, connecting. Conciousness
21 of thunder: I and you – the distance which causes shock. Tackling things
38 of lake: everyone is unique, it makes exchange possible, finding a flow between individuals
64 of water: accepting life and letting live, suspending choice and opinion
50 of wind: the gift of humans to world/humanity/gods, the state, the holy cauldron
56 of mountain: the individual, a wanderer in the world, alone.
14 of heaven: manifestation of heaven: gifts of heaven, assets and talents

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Intuition (Spirit, the Real)
EARTH extravert, Neptune
HEAVEN introvert, Uranus

Thinking (Mind, the True)
WIND extravert, Mercury
MOUNTAIN introvert, Saturn

Feeling (Soul, the Good)
FIRE extravert, Jupiter
WATER introvert, Moon

Sensation (Body, the Beautiful)
LAKE extravert, Venus
THUNDER introvert, Mars

The Sun and Pluto represent the life force and don't correspond to trigrams.

Heaven

Qian is the law, it directs all movement in universe, it sets the time and range of the planet's orbits, it causes day and night, summer and winter. It is the blueprint of Creation.
Its animal is the dragon, whose size is illimitable. It lives in the galaxies and makes the huge clockworks turn around. It enters the eggs of the turtle and makes the newborn baby-turtles all hatch together and dash for the sea. It lives in the center of the sun and the depth of the ocean.
The clouds follow the dragon and make the seasons dry or rainy, warm or cold, all according to their time and place on earth. In the fields of earth the dragon's voice can be heard as thunder. In spring it tells all that the growing season will start, in autumn it clears the sky for the winter time.
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Earth

is Dao, the field of action for the laws of heaven. Without this field the laws cannot come to realization. Earth gives every creature its unique form, it channels the universal influences of heaven into the myriad manifestations.
Its animal is the mare, the symbol of tireless movement and strength. Not selfwilled like a stallion, but following the demands of nature. The ancient farmers saw the mare as representing the powers of earth. A horse is wild but can be tamed and serve man. It combines energy, obedience and fertility.
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Fire

It is the light which makes everything visible, the form of things so they can manifest themselves. It connects all things and separates all things. In the mind it is consciousness, thinking and seeing, understanding. It acts in a bird, the bright bird of insight, but one has to catch it. If one does not, it will fly away. Maybe it will return at night, in dreams, and one can try again to catch it and take it back to the day.
Night and day complement and help each other. Night brings the shifting shimmer of wisdom, day the sudden shock of insight, like a flash of lightning. Do not underestimate the destroying power of fire as intellect, though.
Li is the eye, looking and trying to see, the sense of daylight and of forms and colors.
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Water

It is the dark which erases all borders and hides all things. The ocean, which is the source of all life, but can also destroy it. The primordeal womb of the world. Primeval chaos.
It is also the rain, mist and snow, the river, the wild waters running through a gorge, but also the dangerous still water of deep pits.
In the mind it is the realm of feelings, sadness and remembering, loneliness. It is hard labor, midnight, midwinter, and the unconscious. But also inner wisdom, inner truth. Dreams and the moon, reflecting the day-light of consciousness. The shadows of the night make all things lose their separating forms, and bring an understanding which is wider than the one of the day.
Kan gives the ability to conceive of paradox, without that no wisdom, no dreaming, no creativity is possible.
Kan is listening, trying to hear, which is the sense of the dark and of vibrations.
Water and the moon are the elements that give life its ebb and flow. They are the symbols of the cycle of life, without water no life is possible.
'In all cultures water has the symbolic meanings of source of life, vehicle of cleansing, and center of regeneration. It is undifferentiated, so it stands for the infinite nature of the possible, containing all that is potential, unshaped, the seed of seeds and all promises of evolution, as well as all threats of re-absorption. To immerse oneself in the waters and to re-emerge without having been utterly dissolved in them, except by dying a symbolic death, is to return to the well-springs and regain fresh strength from that vast reservoir of the potential. It is a passing phase of regression and disintegration which brings with it a progressive phase of reintegration and regeneration'.
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Wind

Like thunder is the voice of heaven, wind is the voice of earth.
Wind is the 'image' in a chicken egg which makes it grow into a chicken or a hawk's egg to grow into a hawk. The chicken-seal, the hawk-seal. It is heredity, predestination, evolution. The magnetic field, the charge, and the vibrations of the earth and all matter.
The seals are aroused by Thunder, the wake-up call.
C: "There is something else about Sun, one can feel her, not just see her effects. Sometimes she sooths skin from the heat. Sometimes she penetrates clear to the bone with chill. Sometimes she destroys a town, and she has sunk ships. One can also hear her voice whistling through the branches. No-one and nothing else can do this. Her energy is transmutable, like in a windmill or a ship's sail. She wears away mountains only because the mountain is unmoved by her power; stubborn lad that he is. But he's not unaffected, even in his stillness. Xun's power will not be denied, only rerouted".
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Thunder

is creation and destruction. It is the manifestation on earth of the laws of heaven, the eldest son. In spring it awakens the seeds and makes them germinate. It disturbs the logical sequence of happenings by acting out heaven's laws. Life has no logic, it has cycles, it grows and declines, it appears suddenly and disappears mysteriously, answering to an invisible law.
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Mountain

gives a foundation and borders to life and lake fills it in with living joy and exchange. Every creature needs both to make his life substantial and yet liquid, strong and yet full of movement.
Mountain is the inner core, the stillness of the heart, the essential being. In nature is is the seed, which has no motion but contains the whole being before its coming into form. It is also the fruit, which contains the condensed nature of the plant. Also without form or motion, but it is the complete essence of its being.
In this inner root one can find the forces of regeneration, it is both the end and the new beginning. Here one experiences eternity.
Mountain is also the inaccessible inner defense against the world. It can be a protection, but just as well a prison of stone for oneself.
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Lake

is the innocent openness of children and their ability to play and act and learn all at the same time, without making any difference among them. Mountain is being, it is tough like a shield. Lake is living, it is fluid interaction. Lake makes the mind clear and open, and the limbs supple and agile.
Quietness is the mother of movement. When the mind is quiet and clear like a lake on a calm day, one can reflect the light, one can look into the waters of the soul, and see its creatures.
When there is movement around, one answers to the winds and rains, supple and without any restriction, open and genuine.
The other side of its meaning is the irrevocability of words and actions. One can not make a spoken word undone, it is as if a higher power has it in its possession now. It can be a very serious danger to let the bird fly at the wrong moment.
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