8-4 or Dirty Dancing with Spencer (25) & Barbara (84)

(Song by Coldplay `The Hardest Part`)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNV4QP_6xj0



The meaning of the trigrams Gen (8) and Xun (4) used to analyze qi via the Feng Shui Flying star system:

Xun, Trigram 4 (wind, old lady)

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Trigram 8 (mountain, young man)

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The old lady is flying like the wind around the young man. While the young man is quite stable (Yin-Qi / Mountainstar-Qi), the old lady is symbolical representing the mobile qi (Yang-qi / Waterstar-Qi)
Their dresses might cause a little pain in the eyes for some... As 8-4 and 4-8 in Xuang Kong Feng Shui can stand for emotional hurting as the 4 represents wood-qi and the 8 earth-qi (wood controls earth). But it depends also on the strength of the qi (stars).

In this symbolical case/picture of this kind of qi-mixture the young man is much stronger than the old lady, so he can easily hold her. And she can´t do any damage to him. They work like a great team on stage (= fire-bridge).


Have some fun watching the video!

Antje

Li - Trigram (Fire) - Armoury, Semper Galery in Dresden

The Trigram Li

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stands for fire, fast horses, armours, helms, lances, weapons and generally for things which are soft within and hard outside (shells, snails etc.), it´s the sticking one, the shiny one (decoration).
It´s a perfect description of old warriors, sitting on their horses, throwing with fireballs or carrying lances to attack each other.
The hard armour covers the (soft) body. This is meant by soft inside, hard outside.

Wind & Water (alleviated typhoon waves at South China Sea with water level 1-2 metres higher than usual)

Philippines, August 2009

Movie / Photos by Antje

Divination - buy it or don´t buy it...

Nearly two weeks ago I saw a wonderful, but quite expensive evening dress in a shop in Berlin and immediately I fell in love with it. As I had just the minute bought before already another dress, I felt even blocked to fit it.

But in the following days I couldn´t stop thinking about this wonderful evening dress and fit it for the first time on Monday 15th. I told the shop assistant I will come back to let have a friends look on the next day at it as well before making a decision.

Additionally I did a Divination using Plum Blossom Method on Monday 15th June. And I got hexagram 57 with the 5th line moving:

"Find fortune in persevering. it is advantageous to forget about remorseful events. Although the beginning is not favourable, the endin gis. Before taking action, ponder for three days, Upon taking action, watch the result for three days. Carefully think through your decision before putting it into action. While the outcome may bring difficulties in the beginning, you have not made a mistake. Monitor the progress of your decision." ("The Complete Idiots´Guide to the I Ching", by Elisabeth Moran and Joseph Yu, 2002, page 200")

The story goes on that my friend had no time on Tuesday, so I went to the shop for a second time and fit the dress, sending a picture via mobile/cell to my friend. but did not buy it this day. So on the next day my friend came with me to watch the dress. After long pondering I bought it finally now on Wednesday evening (17th June), after stressing the poor shop assistant for three days. :-) So far no regret, I even found now already the right shoes...


Antje

Programming of the extracelluar matrix of cells and human beings

Not long ago I read an article about the Mosuo – a matriarchical society in China.

Men don´t have much or any power positions, marriages do not exist , romance seems to be most important. The families are led by females. Men do live with their mothers.

The Mosuo are an interesting example of the relativity of what is “good” and “bad” according to Chinese Astrology and Astrology in general and if a persons character fits into the environment or how a character plays out at all within the “given” society.

When something is appreciated by the environment then usually there is well being while the “wrong” environment might cause stress which creates suffering and sickness.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,627363,00.html

http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_curiosity/2004-05/11/content_47041.htm

BWT Maybe we can compare a human being with a cell – both have to communicate with their environment for making a living. For a human the environment is the family/society etc. – for a cell it´s the extracellular matrix.

Actually researchers experiment with cells, observing their behaviour within different artificial extracellular matrixes. The result so far is that cells definitely communicate with their environment and more - the environment can let them die or let them grow and flourish. The extracellular environment can obviously change the genetical program of the cell.

In some experiments the researcher could change the “job” of a cell (tissue cell/fibroblast) slightly, while changing the environment only a little bit. So maybe if the change of the environment is completely against the basic function of the cell - the change of the programming fails and the cell dies.

This research group also got interesting results of testing reaction of human skin cells within different levels of stress (frequencies).

So Feng Shui could also be considered as changing the "extracellular matrix" of a human being, a change of the environment with the result of reprogramming the behaviour of a human being.

Antje

Feng Shui 3 (Western Sciences versus Chinese Metaphysics) - Effects of Water and Mountain

Personally I consider Chinese metaphysics and Western Sciences as Yin and Yang which complement each other, while the metaphysics is the “Complexity” and the Western science the “Simplicity” way of describing natural phenomena.

Maybe according to “as in macrocosmos so in microcosmos” we can consider the „dragon“ to be connected/synonymous with the heartbeat/rhythm. Heart is in the – according to TCM - “heavenly” part (= above the navel) of the human body – like a mountain – the source of where the river start flowing towards gravity. Usually the blood vessels have their way hugging the organs while taking a meandering path.

Heartbeat is about the “flow” of water/blood, it´s about the speed, amount of qi flow. It pumps the blood together with fresh oxygen (wind) - one part goes up to the head (heaven/6) and the main part flows down following the way of gravitation. This is everywhere the same in the world, no matter if in Northern hemisphere or Southern hemisphere. Up and down, up and down.... Like the water circulation within nature.

“Mountain” strengthens” health in the way that in the mountains the body has more stress to get/transport enough oxygen to the organs. More erythrocytes are produced when a human being moves within the mountains, the heart has to do more work and becomes stronger also because of lesser air pressure.

As oxygen is heavy, so in flat areas there is more oxygen than in the mountains. And when a “trained” human being with more erythrocytes has to do muscle work in the flat area it becomes more productive. That´s why movement within mountains means “slow down”, but getting stronger health. Trained muscles become more powerful when being “used” in a flat areas/water areas.

Antje

Peace Butterfly

Happy Easter

Forschungsprojekt "Wettervorhersage" - Teil IV

Wettervorhersage für Berlin-Zentrum:

02.01.2009:
- bewölkt, keine Sonne
- vormittags hohe Niederschlagswahrscheinlichkeit
- ab nachmittag sollte es trocken bleiben

03.01.2009:
- trocken, aber den ganzen Tag trübe/bewölkt

04.01.2009:
- ein schöner Tag mit viel Sonne
- kaum Wolken
- kein Niederschlag

05.01.2009:
- trocken, aber trübe/wolkenverhangen
- keine Sonne


Antje

(alle Angaben sind wie immer ohne Gewähr)

Forschungsprojekt "Wettervorhersage" Teil III

Wettervorhersagen (Berlin-Zentrum) für

Dienstag, den 30.12.2008:
- kaum Niederschlag (evtl. etwas in der ersten Tageshälfte)
- bewölkt, aber trocken

Mittwoch, den 31.12.2008:
- schöner Tag, viel Sonne
- weitgehend klarer Himmel
- evtl. etwas Niederschlag in der zweiten Tageshälfte bzw. gegen Abend

Donnerstag, den 01.01.2009:
- teils bewölkt, teils sonnig
- geringe Niederschlagswahrscheinlichkeit (wenn dann in der zweiten Tageshälfte, gegen Abend)


Antje

(alle Angaben sind wie immer ohne Gewähr)

Forschungsprojekt "Wettervorhersage" Teil II

Wettervorhersage für Berlin/Zentrum:

27. Dezember 2008:
- wolkig und trübe
- kein bzw. nur sehr wenig Niederschlag
- zweite Tageshälfte/abends aufklarend

28. Dezember 2008:
- klar, sonnig
- kühl und windig
- geringe Niederschlagswahrscheinlichkeit

29. Dezember 2008:
- anfangs Wolken und Niederschlag/feucht
- in der zweiten Tageshälfte trocken
- keine bis wenig Sonne

Antje

Forschungsprojekt "Wettervorhersage" Teil I

Wettervorhersagen für Berlin/Zentrum:

24. Dezember 2008:
- recht viel Niederschlag (Schnee oder Regen), möglicherweise der größte Teil in der ersten Tageshälfte
- nasskalt
- keine Sonne

25. Dezember 2008:
- kühl, windig
- weiterhin neblig und grau, feucht
- weniger feucht/Niederschlag als am 24. Dezember

26. Dezember 2008:
- tagsüber trocken, aber trübe/wolkenverhangen
- evtl. Niederschlag gegen Abend


Antje

Forschungsprojekt - Versuch Wettervorhersage für Berlin

Hiermit starte ich ein Forschungsprojekt im Bereich Vorhersagen mit Hilfe chinesischer Wahrsagemethoden. Mein Ziel ist es, deutlich über eine statistisch mögliche Zufallstrefferquote hinaus akkurate Vorhersagen zu machen und während des Projektes die möglichen Vorhersagedetails weiter zu verfeinern.

Es sind meine ersten Versuche überhaupt, mit Hilfe chinesischer Wahrsagemethoden das Wetter für einen Ort vorherzusagen. So werde ich sehen, was überhaupt möglich ist.
Um Überschneidungen mit Voraussagen von herkömmlichen "normalen" Wetterdiensten zu vermeiden, werde ich versuchen, die Vorhersagen so weit wie möglich im Voraus zu machen.

Diesen Blog nutze ich als schriftliche Dokumentation.

Antje

Raumzeitkrümmung / space-time-continuum

Übersetzungen können sehr unterhaltsam sein...

...und sind ein bißchen wie "Stille Post" spielen...

Habe heute versucht, das Wort "vorweltlich" aus Richard Wilhelm "I Ging" Buch ins Englische zu übersetzen. Es taten sich neue "Welten" auf... :-)

Die Historie besagt, dass Richard Wilhelm das "I Ging" Skript zuerst vom Chinesischen direkt ins Deutsche übersetzt hat und dann das Ganze noch einmal vom Deutschen ins Chinesische unter Assistenz eines chinesischen Muttersprachlers.

Im Sinne von "Xian Tian" , was im Englischen als "Earlier Heaven" bezeichnet wird, ist die deutsche Übersetzung vielleicht ein wenig interessanter.

Laut dem Online-Wörterbuch www.dict.leo.org wird "vorweltlich" mit "antemundane" übersetzt.

1. "antemundane" in der deutschen Übersetzung hat aber einen recht negativen Kontext im Sinne von hinterweltlich, old fashioned, oder von "mundane" als banal, alltäglich, unaufregend
2. Wort-für-Wort Übersetzung wäre "before the world"
   
3. "vorweltlich" -> Synonym = "fossil" (von lat. fossilis "ausgegraben"), was im Fremdwörterlexikon neben "vorweltlich" auch mit "urzeitlich" bzw. als "Versteinerung" beschrieben ist.
   

Wenn die "fossile" Anordnung natürlich auf einem uralten Schildkrötenpanzer zu finden war, dann könnte man natürlich das Ganze auch auf den Schildkrötenpanzer beziehen. ;-)


Antje