Into Equilibrium

There is an allusion saying in the knowledge of ancient Thuban Draconis's esoterism.

水火相濟

Which means the water and the fire is at their fine balance.

(Updated in 2025/6/5)

Water removes the destructiveness of fire.

Fire ensures water's mobility, preventing it from freezing.

Each ensures the vitality of the other, forever and ever.

For thousands of years, Yin and Yang have represented the harmony between divine masculine and divine feminine power.

Like many other esoteric systems, esotericism and mysticism actually try to use symbolism to simplify and integrate the comprehensive knowledge of everything, unlike the modern principle systems, which are normally characterized by isolated, limited perspectives.

Thubans and Antares' spirits think the entropy inside the information (text) may confuses later generations, so they decide to put bars as a symbolism tool to understand. The Yellow Emperor brought the Book of Change (I Ching) as a tool to solve universal problems in the physical planes (64 hexagrams are common unicode of the universe).

The Book of Change (I Ching) is not only a way to seek oracles, but also praises the virtue of the divine masculine (God) and divine feminine (Goddess) in its first and second hexagrams.

I Ching

The following translation will omit some parts related to the divination of oracles. The essence of fortune and misfortune is fundamentally about the gains and losses of possessions. Essentially, we cannot occupy anything because universal energy is constantly flowing.

1st Hexagram: Qian (乾)

Hexagram Brief: 

乾。元，亨，利，貞。

Divine Universal Will. Nourishing everything like spring, growing everything like summer, distributing everything like autumn, storing everything like winter.

天行健，君子以自強不息

The nature of the divine cosmic will is dynamic and resilient, like the sky; we should learn such virtues from it.

People usually compare this hexagram to a wonderful creature - Dragon/Loong (龍).

Here, the dragon becomes a metaphor and a spiritual totem. 

The movements of dragons are often very mysterious. They frequently appear in misty clouds or storms (in the mountains or around lakes). When you see its head, you cannot glimpse its tail; when you see its tail, you cannot know its head. Whether you withness the dragon's head or its tail, you cannot predict what its next steps will be.

The agile movement from dragons is a power to deal with anything in any circumstance for people.

2nd Hexagram: Kun (坤)

Hexagram Brief: 

地勢坤，君子以厚德載物

The earth embracing everything, just as the divine creation reflects everything with unconditional love.

This hexagram usually demonstrates the law of cause and consequence or the steps of manifestation.

There was a saying that is

"冰冻三尺，非一日之寒；滴水穿石，非一日之功。"

In translation, it is 

 It takes more than a day's cold to freeze into feets; it is not accomplished in a single day for water droplets to wear through stone.

Overall

The universe's evolution is always the interaction between divine wills and divine creations.

Just like Laozi said:

One produced two,two produced three,three produced all things. 

Tao Te Ching

 

Laozi

Start from one bars, the devine feminine (陰) and divine masculine (陽)

Become four phenomena: seasons, directions, etc.

Then they become trigrams.

(We have the Qian and Kun here also)

Qian is like a father and Kun is like a mother. They have six kids, three boys and three girls.

Finally, the arrangement of the trigrams in an upper and lower order forms the 64 hexagrams.