An Idea

[Profpat]

I Ching - Field - K'un Earth (Yin)
Season: (Late Summer - early Autumn)
Field
K'un:
The womb that gives birth and nourishesThis trigram is made up of only broken lines. It symbolises a yielding mother figure, someone receptive devoted, but in some ways dark. This trigram is also symbolic of the power to give shape and substance to things, making thoughts and images visible. The earth that yields the crops.

[Profpat]

I Ching - Shake - Chen Thunder
Season: (Spring)
Shake
Chen:
Frightening and inspiring thunder spiritThis trigram is made up of the stirring whole line that emerges below two dormant opened lines. It symbolises the excitement, arousal and disturbing of things. For example the bursting forth of plants from the earth. It brings things out into the open from hiding and has the strength to move heavy things. As the first or eldest son of a new generation it embodies an energetic and protective force which provided for the parents and ancestors.

[Profpat]

I Ching - Ground - Sun Wind, Wood
Season: (Late Spring - early Summer)
Ground
Sun:
Penetrating spirit of wood and windThis trigram is made up of the open line nourishes two whole lines from below, subtly penetrating and influencing them. Symbolic of the eldest daughter who was given in marriage and presides over the new house. A symbol of a subtle and gentle force, that is soft and joyous and that permeates and breathes life and maturity into things. It is brings forth maturity, pairing off, and marriages - the sowing and growing of new seeds and what they develop into. An influential force like an atmosphere, that feeds and nourishes, but also has a bearing on how you think and feel.

[Profpat]

I Ching - Gorge - K'an Water
Season: (Winter)
Gorge
K'an:
The impetuous and adventurous spirit of water flowing in rivers and streamsThis trigram is made up of a single whole line between two restraining opened lines, flowing on without hesitation or reservation. It is symbolic of the middle son, who is somewhat cunning, bold, venturesome, deep, dark and dangerous; the son who needs to move on and establish his own path or new house or venture. It is also symbolic of risk taking, like water forging ahead no matter what obstacles lie in its path. It sweeps along or absorbs things in its way, confronting, challenging and overcoming all obstructions.

[Profpat]

I Ching - Radiance - Li Fire, Lightening, Sun
Season: (Summer)
Radiance
Li:
The spirit of fire, light and warmthThis trigram is made up of a single opened line that holds two whole lines together, uniting and illuminating them. The middle beautiful daughter, supportive, dependant and mature. It also symbolises that which is hot and clings, something that is both illuminating and warming. It is a shape changing bird with brilliant feathers and it comes to settle upon things. Radiance illuminates and bathes objects in a warming glow, it gives the power to see objects and things more clearly giving a focus to goals and ideas.

[Profpat]

I Ching - Bound - Ken Mountain
Season: (Late Winter - early Spring)
Bound
Ken:
The mountain spiritThis trigram is made up of a single whole line that holds beneath it two open lines. It is symbolic of the youngest son, who is quiet, still and stubborn and who is the limit and end of the family. It is suggestive of the Palace of the Immortals, never ending images that start and finish everything. It also symbolises closure and a finishing of things, for example a rounding off. However the endings are all with new beginnings in mind. It is also symbolic of the power to put into words one's achievements that have now come to a close.

[Profpat]

I Ching - Open - Tui Lake
Season: (Autumn)
Open
Tui:
The spirit of water accumulating and spreadingThis trigram is made up of a single opened line that leads two whole lines forward. It is symbolic of the youngest daughter, who is gentle yielding and penetrating, magical, whimsical and light hearted. It symbolises an enriching, fertilising and stimulating rising mist that is capable of generating good feeling. It is also symbolic of profitable enterprise, getting things moving, stimulating and inspiring words and speech; a real feel good factor.

[Felix Schrodinger]

It's perfect

Not quite!

The yellow and the purple are both +-+ and -++ is missing?

regards
Felix

[KiGs]

Not quite!

The yellow and the purple are both +-+ and -++ is missing?

regards
Felix

Good eye Felix ... Should be okay now.

[Felix Schrodinger]

Good eye Felix ... Should be okay now.

Hi Kigs

I am trying to use this sequence in a slightly different way. Profpat envisages this as a cube but I see it as an octahedron. Whilst the cube has eight segments, the octahedron has eight sides and each of the tangrams takes up a side. If you mark one out on a sheet of paper, then fold it you have an eight sided solid consisting of two pyramids.

The tangrams can then be marked on each of the sides. Mark any side with three +++ and the opposite side with three ---. You can then go round each of the sides, changing only one + or - across each edge. This represents a basic plan of the charge on each of the sides. To see what provides the charge, draw a line at right angles across each of the edges of the triangles which make up the octahedron. For the +++ side mark each line on that side as + and the opposite end as -. Repeat this process for the --- side (but the other way round). All of the ends of the lines can now be marked as + and -, each line having a + end and a - end. If you do it right, they will agree with the tangrams.

Why am I doing this? Well I'm trying to work out a three dimensional model of the eight electrons in stable configuration in the second shell of an atom. And I think this may solve it. Want to have a go at drawing it???

regards
Felix