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In our first article we examined a layer of the I Ching and discovered that although we couldn’t really explain how it works, we could always find very powerful live examples that demonstrate that it does. Ancient Chinese Oracles used tortoise shells to decypher the identifiable courses of change. They would auger holes in the shells and bake them, causing lines and cracks to spread away from the point of auger like the wispy and unique lines you see on the palm of the human hand. It just so happened that our old friend, King Wan, who had been unseated and dethroned had just before the loss of his kingdom, commissioned the Oracles to study calamitous change from floods, fire, drought and War. His primary assignment was whether an enemy was set to move against him, but alas, his studies of the tortoise shells had not yet completed before he was indeed dethroned. As fate is not always 100% negative, happenstance found our good dethroned king thrown in a jail cell next to the stack of discarded tortoise shells.

King Wan spent his time in captivity divining the whorls and loops made by the cracks and began to recognize repetitive patterns. He gradually organized his interpretations into sixty four mathematically precise elements, that comprehend the essence of human society, on its ever evolving teleological plane and its interplay with the forces of nature. It’s  very essence is centered on the pattern of evolvement, or perpetual change, in becoming, thus the name, “Book Of Changes”. Throwing the coins to construct a hexagram is figuratively speaking, like opening a dialogue between your changing life and its circumstances and the timeless center of the Yin and Yang. Throughout the phenomenon of existence, we find examples of extremes, or differences, or points of direction that extremes are headed for in flux. Female, or “Yin” constantly interfacing with “Yang” or male, in such a way that their position is fully realized when it reaches its zenith of opposition, but then its orbit returns to meet its opposite in the center to temporarily become harmony, or composition. Composition lasts but a brief moment, before the harmony vibrates into disharmony and the cycle repeats itself ad infinitum. This model of Yin and Yang, holds true for all opposites and extremes throughout nature, Hot versus Cold, Hard versus Soft, Wet versus Dry and so on, which are all Yin and Yang in their own right.

My favorite Yin and Yang element is of course “Yin” female, as I am a Yang who is near the zenith of my adoration, love and respect for my opposite force. I find Asian women in general and Chinese ones, in particular, overflowing with the “opposites attract” love potion that reduces me to a catatonic state, with a glance, or a smile. You are so mysterious and hopelessly feminine from your beautiful minds to your lovely eyes, hair and sleek  bodies that nature has blessed you with. You see, even as I write this article, my orbit is vibrating and I am losing a writers only defense which is his objectivity. Some would dismiss this phenomena with an argument about pheromones, or the fickle nature of the libidinous drive in quest of infinite variety, but then I would point out that my preference for Asian women has remained steady for ages and it shows no sign of weakening. Asia is rich in culture and history, food and spice and physical beauty, but without her female Yin force, it would be as though I were color blind at a flower festival. I accept Asian culture at times even when I am repulsed by it, but the part about infanticide of females to await the birth of a male destroys me in large segments. I hope that certain part of Asian culture is a change that will not come back around again. Asia with less women is like a face without eyes.

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