activa, son el equinoccio estival y el equinoccio otoñal, épocas de trabajos y fatigas, porque la tierra ha de ser objeto de cuidados asiduos si se desea obtener luego los frutos prometidos en primavera. Oriente y septentrión, el equinoccio de primavera y el equinoccio de invierno, son en cambio momentos de recogi- miento y meditación durante los cuales nos alejamos de la vida común, ya sea para reflexionar sobre los acontecimientos del año, ya sea para programar con atención las próximas siembras. Existe, por tanto, una total disponibilidad de los tiempos y de las cosas, sólo hará falta realizar las elecciones oportunas, ser objetivos al evaluar las circunstancias, vivir la propia situación indagando sus aspectos menos evidentes, porque el tiempo de la Tierra (Khwan) no es un tiempo de “evidencias”.
(1) Femenina, acogedora, húmeda, umbría, sombreada. ► LiSe Heyboer (extraído de: I Ching, book of the moon)
Kun1 is composed of 1: TU3, earth, either a heap of
earth or an earth altar. 2: SHEN1, meaning stretch-out, spirit, ghost, explain, to state, express, power of expression or light-
ning. In it’s oldest version it is written more or less like a dou-
ble spiral: a picture of lightning. In many old cultures the spiral
was a symbol of the primordial waters, the upper ones repre- sented the formless potentiality, the lower ones the potential of form. Together the full potential of manifestation. The spiral is the rhythm of life, of birth and death, the expansion and contraction of yin and yang. And also thunder and lightning, the dy- namic of life. KUN1: passive force of realisation, receptivity, compliance, obedi- ence, female, feminine.Nature and space. In the Mawangdui Yijing hex.2 is CHUAN, the flow, stream or water, maybe the female organ. An old way or writing 3 broken lines is also like the character chuan.
Field, eminent - expansion harvest - determination of a mare. The noble one proceeds probing. As pioneer he meets with confusion, in the rear he finds a master. Harvest: in the Southwest finding friends (or money), in the Northeast losing friends. A determination of peace: auspicious.
The earth lies motionless, time after time. Nothing moves, nothing lives. But deep in her darkness something is waiting. Patient, or asleep.
Then the energy and the vibrations of thunderstorms touch her, and suddenly she is all over vi- brant with life. Lightning, thunder, rain, they come and go suddenly, but a whole year of luxuriant growth has started. Day after day more life, but the earth herself did not change. She is eternal dark, quiet and patient.
