The Power of the Dragon’s Yang and the Tiger’s Yin
Wed 28 Jun 2017, 15:14
The dragon and the tiger in the Book of Changes
by Steve MarshallThe dragon is a powerfully yang creature, while the tiger, despite connotations of strength associated with yang, is regarded as a very yin creature. In fact the belief that the tiger is extremely yin is responsible for it being hunted almost to the point of extinction, because in China yin blood diseases were thought to be treatable by powdered tiger bone. Probably it is the wiliness and stealth of the tiger that made it yin, or the fact that the White Tiger constellation in the west is opposite the Azure Dragon constellation in the east. The dragon and the tiger have always been traditional enemies.
The dragon and the tiger feature strongly in the I Ching, but they signify very different approaches to change. These two particular pathways I refer to as 'the ascent of the dragon lines' and 'changing like a tiger', concentrating in the former case on hexagram 1, 'The Creative', and, in the latter, on hexagram 49, 'Revolution'.......
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