• Directionology.
• Qi at Birth.
• Finding Your Nine Star Ki Number.
• Month Squares 2000, Nine Star Ki Day Number.
• Basic Luo Shu Setting.
• General And Personified Directionology, Basic Directionology.
• Positioning Yourself In Space.
• Number 5.
• Your Own Number, Number Opposite Its Own House,
  Home Is Where My Food Is.
  
• Physical And Metaphysical Yin-Yang Classification.
• Travelling In Ancient Times, Contra-measures.
• Impact Travelling.
• Dealing With Jetlag, Chinese Zodiac Directionology,
  Twelve Earthly Branches, Cosmograph And Jupiter,
  Miscellaneuos.

Physical and metaphysical yin-yang classification

       Please be advised that any classification into yin and yang is relative and can be sometimes confusing. I use the yin-yang classification as introduced to the west by George Oshawa (Nyoti Sakurazawa).

       Physically the liver is a yang organ, because it is solid and most materialized, contracted. Metaphysically, however, the liver is yin, as any practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine will tell you, because the liver meridian is yin, producing a yang physical organ. Likewise, the stomach meridian has yang energy, producing a hollow – yin and expanded – organ.

       The best way to explain the difference between a physical or metaphysical approach when we classify yin and yang, may be using the Heaven trigram (Qian) and the Earth trigram (Kun) as an example.

      The Heaven trigram contains of three solid – yang – lines. It shows any condition in its ultimate phase of contraction. It is physically the most yang trigram, showing centripetal force, yet metaphysically it is the most yin, because it depicts Heaven, the most expanded idea in our yin-yang studies.

      The Earth trigram contains of three broken – yin – lines. It shows any condition in its ultimate phase of expansion. It is metaphysically the most yin trigram – showing centrifugal energy and the idea of receptiveness, however physically it is the most yang, because the planet is solid.

      Depending on our line of studies, sometimes yin-yang classification can be taken as cause, sometimes yin-yang classification can be taken as effect.

      Yin and Yang classification of food is taken from its effect on our bodies. If we take in yang food, our condition becomes yang. If we take in yin food, our condition becomes yin.

      Let us reflect on the saying: “Extreme Yang produces Yin, extreme Yin produces Yang”.

      Cold is yin in comparison to hot which is yang.

      In polar regions the atmosphere is extremely yin, producing extremely yang vegetation. In polar regions the cold is so extreme, that this extreme yin produces yang, contraction. In tropical regions the atmosphere is extremely yang, producing extremely tall – yin – trees. In tropical regions the sun is extremely yang, producing extreme yin vegetation.

      Yin and yang are never in perfect balance, but will always seek to restore balance.

      When we live in polar region, the atmoshpere there is extremely yin and cold. In order to balance this and function well in this environment we need to take in more yang – warming and contracting - foods. Polar diet can consist of almost only meat and fish, that are more yang.

      Extreme yin is extreme expansion. We would not function in a cold climate when we eat too much yin – cooling and expanding – foods, like fruit. Yin and yin repel. If we are in an extreme yin – or cold – environment and we cannot take in yang food or are not in the vacinity of a heater, this dynamic is shown by our body itself that in reaction to seek balance, will try to yanginize by making itself smaller.

      The sun in tropical regions is extreme yang, having a yanginizing effect on us. In order to balance this and function well in this environment we need to take in more yin foods.

      A pumpkin having grown in a warm and sunny region is much bigger – more yin and expanded – than a pumpkin having grown in a colder region, being more yang. If I live in Scandinavia and take in a pumpkin from Spain, the difference in latitue is too big. I will take on ‘resonance or condition of a Spaniard’ and develope a desire to spend holidays in Spain.

      The idea is that the more yang a certain food is, the farther it can be away from our original environment. Salt is most yang and can be gathered from virtually anywhere, whilst the water we drink should have come exactly from where we live.

      The trick is to choose your food according to latitude and stay within a 50 kilometers North-South range. If you live in London, any food from Amsterdam is more agreeable than the same type of food from Italy.

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      Earth magnetism is different everywhere on the planet, but the farther away from your own latitude, the greater the difference between energies of Heaven and Earth and your own specific Qi resonance. When you live in the 1A region and you have to choose food from the 1B, 1C or 2 region, 1B and 1C would be more agreeable to your own Qi resonance than 2. The best thing for you to take in from your destination would be water from that region. If you cannot get water from the region you will be travelling to, try other foods from that region but containing water, like vegetables and fruits.

      As an organism our human body needs to build up and maintain a certain resistence.

      The general idea when we think of ‘resistance’ is the resistance we should have against sickness. Looking upon resistance from a much larger perspective, it means resistance against Qi frequencies that are too far distanced from our own resonance. This Qi could be in the form of us not having resistance agains problems or fluctuations in our destiny.

      In our modern world we have the ability to move fast over greater distances. We may even choose to permanently leave our country and migrate to another country. If we do, we should keep in mind that we need to take in the food basic to that new environment, in so doing adjusting our Qi. If we made a permanent move to another country, but maintain the diet that we had in our country of origin, we may have moved our physical body to a new environment, yet our Qi is left behind. We will be hardly able to adapt to the new environment and gradually develop weaknesses.

      The farther away from our original latitude, the more problems with our constitution and condition.

      Travelling in enclosed environments – like automobiles,trains or airoplanes – is extremely yanginizing. Whenever possible, leave a window open and take in some yin foods, like juices, fruit or vegetables. Take the same precaution whenever you are travelling into a direction that is too yang or into a hot climate.

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