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The Mawangdui simply says "Crying Pheasant." The others seem to talk a lot about light being darkened or wounded or lessened; it bothers me. One thing the yin/yang set is not is simple "good versus evil." Good and evil are judgments of men not forces of nature. When we like the results of the influence of a force we call it good; we call bad that which we do not like. But yin and yang are above our liking or disliking, above and far far beyond our judgments. Inhale, exhale. Convex, concave. Light, dark. Man, woman. And while it might be fashionable in patriarchal societies like that of Confucius to cast woman as evil, like that of the Judeo-Christian-Muslim tradition of Eve being fooled by the snake, yin and yang are above and far far beyond such petty myths. There is evil aplenty in the lightmaleyangconvexactive principle; there is good aplenty in the darkwomanlyyinconcavepassive principle. And both principles are always waxing, always waning. There are birds which signal the coming of the new day; there are birds that signal the coming of the new night. Neither night nor day is free from evil; neither is bereft of good. Knowing which prevails is the key to working your own magic on the world, to manifesting the good you were meant to bring to the world.
When we had one light line entering the bottom it was a turning point. When that line achieved the center of its trigram we had the army, stored power under strong direction. A new light line at the bottom again was a turning point, and the stored power of the army became manifest in an ordered prospering society. Then those two lines gave way to create one at the top of the inner trigram, giving us modesty, the accomplished sage who need not lord it over anyone. But now we have a new light line entering at the bottom again, this seems to be a constant reversal, and now we have the crying of the pheasant, the sun going behind the earth, the sweet calming coolness of the first inklings of nightfall. The light is lessened, and we can come out and do the things which the scorching sun forbade only hours ago. The light is lessening and it is time to prosper in the energy between night and day. Soon it will change.
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