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Yin and yang cannot exist in extreme relationship to one another without some transformation taking place. They re-balance their relationship by agreeing to talk about it the passive partner gets fed up shoots the aggressive partner (radical transformation of yin into yang) or the relationship ends. For example in an unbalanced relationship where one person is excessively aggressive and the other excessively passive there could be three outcomes.

In a relationship where yin and yang are unbalanced in an extreme manner the transformation can be quite drastic. This sort of change takes place smoothly, maintaining a healthy balance of yin and yang. For example when we breathe inhalation is followed by exhalation. This constant transformation is the source of all change. Because yin and yang create each other they are always subtly transforming into each other. Harmonious changes occurring in the normal course of events, and sudden dramatic changes characteristic of extremely unbalanced situations. To explain further if a person is aggressive it depends on the extent to which another is passive and therefore they exert mutual control over one another. If there is a balance and for example it is neither too hot or too cold then yin and yang are mutually controlled. If yang is excessive then yin will be weak and vice versa. Yin and yang control and balance each other.For example it is not possible to speak of temperature without the yin and yang aspects of hot and cold. But hot can be further divided into boiling hot (yang) and warm (yin)Īlthough the concepts of yin and yang can be distinguished they cannot be separated as they depend on each other for definition. For example temperature can be divided into hot (yang) and cold (yin). In other words within each yin or yang categorisation there exists another yin and yang category and so on ad infinitum.

Any yin or yang aspect can be further divided into yin and yang.

Yin and yang qualities always exist in relation to each other. These things are opposite and yet they describe relative aspects of the same phenomena. The understanding of the primal polarity and flux between yin and yang is gained not just intellectually, but experienced.įor example night and day, earth and heaven, passive and active. It should be noted that in pre-babylonian times, and still among the oldest tribes such as the kalahari bushmen and Australian aborigines (and still within the German language) the moon is seen as masculine and the sun as feminine.

Yin and yang are, of course, relative to one another. The character for yin originally meant the shady side of a hill, while the original meaning for yang was the sunny side. Within the Yin there is a little bit of Yang, expand the Yang to change Yin into Yang, Yang then changes towards Yin. Yin and yang contain within themselves the possibility of change. Nothing can exist outside of relationship to the other. Yin and yang are not only a set of correspondences they are a way of thinking where everything is seen as part of a whole. Thus yin and yang create each other, control each other and transform each other. The dynamic curve dividing them indicates that yin and yang are continuously merging. The small circles, that are an opposite colour, illustrate that within yin there is yang and within yang there is yin. The circle represents the whole, divided in yin (black) and yang (white). These are convenient labels used to describe how things function in relation to each other and to the universe. It is based on the philosophical construct of two polar complements, called yin and yang. Underlying Chinese esoteric studies is a logic called Yin -Yang theory.