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Taken for "Active Assignment Weekly" YinYang

ASSIGNMENT: Yin and yang are generalizations of the antithesis or mutual correlation between certain objects or phenomena in the natural world, combining to create a unity of opposites.

 

WIT: I opened my I Ching to the hexagram of T'ai (Peace). It is made up of two trigrams: the Yin (female/dark/yielding) trigram over the Yang (male/light/creative) trigram. The method of consulting the oracle is tossing 3 coins; that's why the coins are included. The shell looks to me like the stylized YinYang symbol. The image of the two weathered hands, slightly touching and resting peacfully, is from a card I happened to have. It seems to epitomize the YinYang principle in relationships. I put a bamboo mat over a small bureau under a window and closed one of the curtains to give a dark/light effect to reinforce the YinYang theme.

 

Thank you North60 for the cropping suggestion - as you can see, I used it.

 

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Uploaded on October 22, 2007
Taken on October 21, 2007