The Circle is the Yin and the pointy thing is the Yang.
Just so we Are Clear… There are two sexes.
My diatribes about Yin and Yang are generalizations, meant to increase understanding of the energies described in life science systems and belief systems. Yin is the feminine sex. Yang is the masculine sex. Yin is the physical aspect of creation and Yang is the mental aspect of creation. All living beings are combinations of these two sex principles. Living beings are made from these two insanely different forces of creation. The combine to make Reality, the third part of a living mystery called Life. We are the children of Gods. A nuclear family.
There may be 72 names for god, but there are only two sexes.
And…. There are an infinite number of combinations of the The Two.
Yin and Yang are completely different. Yin is the Eternal Memory. Yang is Eternal Potential. Those words Memory vs. Potential are opposites and flat-out different. We come together between them. Creation is both Yin and Yang. We experience them as recognizable archetypes.
Here’s a simple way to identify the two energies. Yin is the container. It is a place, a thing, the stuff of God. Gravity is Yin. Yin is the Veil. Wimmin are more Yin than men.
Yang is the spark that initiates. It moves into stuff. Light beams are Yang. Faith and Belief are Yang. Yang pierces the veil. The Veil is Yin. Men are more Yang than wimmin.
Rites of Passage
Brides wear a veil to their weddings. The custom is for the Groom to lift the veil. It represents the moment of conception, the union of The Two Opposites. Her job is to be there. His job is to open her up to her future. Many a Prince has rescued, revived and retrieved a Princess in this sexist fashion, because sexism is the nature of life.
The Yang Prince fights dragons to get to the sleeping Yin Princess. The disconnect that turned the Feminists into angry bitches was when they called us ‘Passive’. We are not Passive beings, we wimmin folk. We have desires to want, interests to pursue and sovereign acts to accomplish, so we are pissed, not passive.
Yin is not passive, She is magnetic.
Problem is… the uterus is where it is. The sperm is shot from a cannon and has a great adventure which ends up killing him. That’s why all the Mythologies kill the young king. His vitality is sacrificed to make the new.
Biology is Spiritual. Made in their images.
And yes, I use the sex biology to describe the Gods because that is how we are made in their images. God is not a single celibate all powerful being. God is a married man with a family, kids and grandkids, all with defined personalities.
What has society learned in 10,000 years of so called civilized progress?
That wimmin should keep their jobs as caretakers of morality.
Making, birthing, feeding and training humun beings is an important job.
Donating the spark of creation to the maker of beings is an important job.
That the special talents of each gender are needed.
That the special talents of each gender are not mutable.
Ironically, cancel culture is yin, because the tribe is a unit in space, like an egg or the nest. The People as a unit, is a feminine entity. The body politic. The temple. When you are sent away from your place, you suffer. Thus, shunning is a feminine punishment. Yang will just kill you.
With that in mind is genocide Yin or Yang? The shooting and bombing is Yang. The ideology that approves of mass murder is Yang, because, ideology is no-thing. Just ideas. But wait, ideas back with action. Double Yang. The bullets are things, so Yin. The action of bullets is aggressive and active, so Yang. Forcing people to leave their Place, Home, Center is Yin shunning. See how this works? Nothing under the sun is just One Thing, including God.
Made for each other, yet foreign. Dark void and light speed.
Bureaucracy is Yin
Traditional Government is Yin. Revolution is Yang. Rules and laws are Yang, prisons are Yin. Containers are Yin. The feminine is Yin. It is the skin on your body. It is Juno, Zeus’ wife. It is the Grandmother who knows all the rules and abides by them. Yin is depression and cold. Yin is still. Yin is passive aggressive. She cannot fight with a punch. She fights by holding in, by suffocation. Her violence is covert. Her power is mysterious.
Yin power is sinister, literally the left side of the body, the right brain. Yang power is on the right side of the body, the left side of the brain. We use the word “power,” but do not distinguish between Yin power and Yang power. They are not alike.
Ideas are Yang
The Yang mentality of mind over matter has trained generations to venerate ideas. Issues evolve when Yang ideas are institutionalized into forms that are run by the idea makers. In other words, the Yang revolutionaries are never the same people as the Yin bureaucrats who rule.
Yang innovation is essential to survival, but without Yin structure, nothing happens. We see this cycle repeated throughout history. The rebels risk everything to innovate the system. As soon as they win, the meetings are called and the rules emerge.
Science is Yin
Science requires questioning and testing and throwing the baby out with the bathwater. That is literally what monthly menstruation is doing. Nature can be terrible, cruel. The cruelty of death is one of the reasons (reason is yang) that male led science has attempted to make so-called improvements.
Sadness is yin. Depression is yin. Ask any psychologist and they will tell you the statistics. Depression is a feminine condition. It does not need to be cured, it needs to be understood and tolerated. Every cycle in creation has a low point. Use it to its purpose.
The planet Saturn is Yin. This was an elder feminine God-Ess in earlier times. The Greeks transformed that Crone of Hearth, Home and Midwifery into a castrating male son of the God Uranus. By the time the Romans got a hold of the old religion, it was already erasing God’s Wife.
Divine Sex
The Feminine devours the Masculine. In terms of Sword and Sheath, she engulfs him. He dives into a dark abyss from which he will emerge, deflated, impotent and exhausted. His virility is always at odds with her nearby, because he always wants to return to his little death. He desires to die inside her. He cannot resist, so he calls her whore, siren and temptress. He fears her. He fears his own desire. And she is formidable. Her scent calls to him from a distance. She is beyond words. He cannot resist.
After the crazy dance of union is accomplished, the unscented crone steps in with her rules and regulations. For that reason the males of society have attempted to vanquish the crones in their religions and lore. If she is still around, and she is, they call her evil, devil, witch. They set her on fire and tell the young that they will suffer the same end if they don’t spread their legs on command, “Because you asked for it.”
Sex is not complicated, but it seems to be controversial, and not because of politics or psychology. No. Sex is complicated because the needs and wants and functions of the two parties are so different as to be totally incompatible.
Two ships passing in the twilight, at Dawn and Dusk. The times of the cycle when The Mysterious Two lightly brush left hand to right. Shoulder to shoulder, turn, embrace, flowing like the Pisces fishes, connected but traveling in opposite directions.
Intellect is Yang
Yang inspires, breathing life into the dormant object.
Sperm hits the egg and is devoured, used, transmuted by Yin. This event is the same as the urge to leap from a cliff. Vertigo? Christ dying and being reborn is the modern version of a fertility rite. “Praise the sacrifice of a living sperm! Thank you, Lord Sperm. Amen.”
The Masculine is overt, like the sun overhead. Even on a cloudy day, He is above and you know it. He is pervasive. His aggression is relentlessly obvious. You sweat when He heats up. His presence is fertile because plants grow as His time in the sky increases in spring. He awakens the world in the morning and the world sleeps when He is gone. He brings happiness, unless you find yourself in the desert in August, a malevolent god.
Universities are Yang, because they are the domain of knowledge, the playground of the intellect. They encourage the adventure of the mind. Ideas, adventure and mindfulness are Yang. Ideologies fertilize society.
Institutions are Yin, because they have government, rules and sanctioned rituals. It is relatively easy for a revolution of thought to solidify into a dogmatic habit.
Yang is a horny professor and a cheating husband, because Jupiter is the archetype of fertility. His job is to energize the Yin earth with his Solar heat so she can reproduce life. Yang enhances and energizes life. Men are more yang than most wimmin, and they can father babies until they are old. This is why they want young wives, secretaries and college girls. They need a young field to fertilize.
The Yang is in constant pursuit of a youthful vessel where he can pour his vital energy. Pouring his vital energy into an old bag will not bring the desired result of healthy little babies. The modern state of upside-down is making men into perverts. They desire children. They desire sex on demand. They desire the power of Nature.
Men have been driven insane by a lust for mind over matter.
Where do wimmin fit into this odd puzzle?
In the language of Tao principles, postmenopausal wimmin are of no use to fertile old men. Men, young and old, have the same yang proclivity to penetrate on physical and intellectual levels. The mind is Yang. The mind philosophizes. The mind penetrates.
Postmenopausal wimmin are more yang. Some even grow whiskers! The eggs dry up. The vagina dries up and atrophies. But what happens to us ‘old bags’ when our baby making days are over? We are discarded. But Why? Who discards these elders? Wimmin do. Why? Because we forgot our job-
To keep the fire going.
To understand.
To demonstrate restraint and introspection.
The job of Time
Wimmin gave up on ourselves generations ago. Feminism isn’t for young wimmin, it’s for grannies. Young wimmin are beautiful and fertile. That is their job, or so we learned. My generation learned that we could retire in our old age, that we could go on a perpetual cruise and let the young people do all the heavy lifting. What we didn’t learn was how lonely we would be without the beautiful young ones all around us, eager to hear our stories.
As long as procreation and mental acuity are the mainstays of social capital, elder wimmin will have to live on the back burner of society. It is up to elders to make ourselves useful to the young, who need all the support they can get. But did we tell them? What did we tell them? We told them to be the Lone Cowboy, to ‘go it alone’, to be an individual, to self-support, to self-soothe.
And then we stand around wondering why they are acting the way they do.
Everyone wants power
For too long, we have preferred the Yang principles of innovation over traditional. It’s time we understood what we are doing. Men are Yang and they need room to move their bodies. They need conflict and challenge. Men need to fix problems and plot openly. They want to be useful.
How can men gain power without destroying the world?
Wimmin are Yin and need community and cooperation. We need to gather together and make decisions based on our feelings and experience. We need to consider safety of our own place and time, and we want power.
How can wimmin gain power without destroying the hearts of men?
Since humuns consist of both of the these qualities, we are enigmas unto ourselves. Our contrariness constantly contradicts the conundrums of any given consequences. Rules and innovations are constantly changing and they go hand in hand. Search for yourself. You are a puzzle piece without a photograph to look at. Where do you fit? Ask. Look. Feel your way to the place where you fit. Then settle in and participate as if you mean it!
Please remember that “isms” and “euphorias” are just bullshit words used to manipulate your mind into thinking upside-down. We are all, already ‘transgendered’ in the divine way of Yin and Yang. We can change roles and outfits, but we are who we are.
Boy in a girl suit. Girl in a boy suit.
If you feel like a boy in a girl’s body then your yang mind is very active, but you are still a girl. If you feel like a girl in a boy’s body then your sense of place is strong, and you are still a male. Rather than cut off your penis, perhaps you should maintain a garden or buy a house. Those are very yin things.
Understanding is The Way of the Fishes. This was the lesson that Christ was teaching.
All of Creation is the most lovely dance of The Two Into One. Be gentle with yourself.