Amos

They are, Yin is when Adam is in charge of our destiny and Yang is when Mary is in charge of our destiny. In the vernacular that would be Yin when depend on our faculty of reason and Yang when we depend on our intuition . . . which is our soul, which is woman, or Mary as I suggested, and this is after we have learned to walk on water
( = walk by the celestial sea = go by intuition).

BTW, I always like Breugel and their native landscapes. Here the snow adds greatly because it brings the adoration home into their own culture. Very Catholic country it was and they were certainly no strangers to the adoration of the Magi. In fact, as you can see, life goes on as if nothing had happened.

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Baidarka

Just to make sure that we are using the same nomenclature

Yin = feminine, cold, wet, soft, intuition
Yang = masculine, hot, dry, hard, reason

It is interesting to note that in Gnostic literature Sophia is Wisdom and feminine.

Amos

OK in that case I have it backwards. I've never studied the two but since involution precedes evolution I've just equated yin with involution and Yang with evolution because it is called the yin/yang instead of yang/yin.

Thanks for the clarification because that was rather careless of me.

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Baidarka

Amos
I met Alfred Jensen only once at the opening of one of his shows maybe a year before he died. I got to tell him how much I enjoyed his work.
Well Jensen started to expound on his ideas and theories. Everything was going OK till he got to Yin & Yang. Well he got them confused. I did not correct him and I never allowed his slip to interfere with my admiration for his work.

Amos

Thanks, I looked at him and will return to his work later. We have a couple of busy weeks here now and I won't be on much if at all. I love to do different artists and explicate their work.

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