The letter leaves no doubt that today we must all men and women, working more on the "femininity": in the direction of a more effective use of energy and strength yin typically feminine but present in varying degrees in each and very often neglected.
The I Ching is one of those tools that put us in touch with our feminine energy. The book of the Yin and the Yang, the feminine and masculine, is the definition which often summarizes the contents of the I Ching (more correctly: Yi Jing). In fact the trust and confidence in this book you acquire over time, make us discover that this summa of Chinese wisdom, is not given equal value to each of two cosmic principles: male female yin and yang. Wonder surprise us with the fact that strategies recommended yin are about twice, for those who want to carefully count, yang. Reflection on the different strategies proposed by the 64 hexagrams in the opera brings us inevitably conclude that it is in fact the great book of the Yin, the "feminine principle". As if the book tell us that, in most cases, the problems you face better with gentleness, patience, the acceptance and the yin, with non-reflective and impulsive attitude, which does not forcibly and aggression of knee-jerk reaction and primary, typically yang and male.
Western misconceptions, encouraged also by a certain part of Chinese history that has relegated women and women in positions of inferiority and subordination to men and men tend to associate values of positivity and negativity to yang in yin. In this way our society has unfortunately favorite constantly what is yang at the expense of what is yin and, among the many consequences, rational and scientific knowledge than intuitive and emotional. But in the human mind, as in the cosmos, the rational and intuitive, yang and the yin, the male and female, are complementary forces in which one of the two may be prevailing over the other but never alone. So what is favourable or positive or good cannot be contained in either the male or the female yin yang, because the focus is moved to the expression balance/imbalance dynamic of the two primal forces. In fact, when the Chinese are the Yin/Yang as negative/positive, quality and natural laws are inseparable and present in every phenomenon but not express value judgements on such elemental forces.
The I Ching is therefore a real sizigia because it represents the inner complementarity between every pair of opposites. Sizigia is the word frequented by c.g. Jung in deep psychology to delineate male female dynamics and consists of three elements: a) of the female controssessuale in man (soul) and the masculine in a woman (animus); b) experience that man has had in his life of women and women, starting with the mother, and vice versa the experience she had of man and men, beginning with the father; (c)) of the archetypal image of the masculine and feminine that each one is formed and which lies also in the collective unconscious.
The trigraph Kun (Earth), in the cosmogony of the I Ching, Yin is the full force of the Earth, and capable of supporting all forms of life. This is not simply something negative and passive, feminine, as today there is a tendency commonly believe and consider. This yin energy is, by contrast, enabling quality typically female acceptance, report availability, of nourishment. It is a vast energy, fruitful, tolerant like that of women. There are including all ability to nourish, support, adapt. There is a completion function. Then the soil that nourishes. Availability. La souplesse. The rest. Maturation. The internalization. Fidelity. The protection. With the doubling of Kun, the Hexagram No. 2 The Receptive. This is properly a "Momentum Receptive" (Faure-Javary) and not, as it defines ordinarily, something real, passive, stationary, static and wait. It is therefore activation of female typical characteristics: availability, souplesse, enable, adaptability to the conditions, etc. Features which, among other things, we all – who more and less – right brain hemisphere, analogue.
For these, as well as for other reasons, I believe that the book of Changes, the I Ching (Yi Jing), can be a valuable tool to help practitioners, psychologists and psychotherapists, as Jung, can provide a unique insight of the character.
