#taijitu

[dorothygale123]

Okay, we're gonna go a little deep today and talk about some fundamental concepts to the Daoist belief system.

How many of you have heard of the 8 trigrams? A few of you, I'd assume. At the very least, those familiar with JttW will remember Laotzu's Brazier of 8 trigrams that famously failed to disintigrate Sun Wukong.

Now, how many actually know what the 8 trigrams are? Quite a bit less, probably. That's what we're learning about today.

This is a traditional representation of the 8 trigrams as created by the god Fu Xi, and the arrangement we're mainly going to focus on. There are other ways to place things, but we won't be looking into those too much thus time.

If you look at the center of the image you'll see a Yin and Yang symbol, or more accurately a Taijitu. Here is a good article going over some specifics, but for now we'll just go with the basics. The white parts are Yang, masculine and active energies. The black parts are Yin, feminine and passive energies. Together they make up the Absolute (Taiji) and are the foundation of the universe. They act on all things, which are represented by the trigrams.

The trigrams are the stacks of 3 lines, either broken or unbroken. Broken lines denote Yin, while unbroken lines denote Yang. Therefore ☰ (sky/heaven) is the most masculine while ☷ (earth) is the most feminine. The other trigrams are ☱ (lake/marsh) and it's opposite ☴ (wind/wood), ☲ (fire/sun) and it's opposite ☵ (water/moon), ☳ (thunder/metal) and it's opposite ☶ (mountain). They are positioned across from their opposite on Fu Xi's Primordial Heaven Bagua (8 trigrams).

When you stack 2 trigrams on top of each other, you get a hexagram, of which there are 64 because trigrams can be stacked on top of themselves. For example ䷀ is two ☰ (sky/heaven) on top of each other, making the hexagram for force.

Things are a bit more complicated when comparing the 8 trigrams to the 5 elements (water, fire, earth, wood, metal), as there is NO way to make those numbers play nice and even so things get a little wonky. Fire and water corrospond to themselves, of course, while earth gets earth AND mountain. Wood gets wind while metal gets sky and thunder.

Honestly it kinda seems like they tried really hard to smush together two concepts that were created independently and were never really intended to interact but both individually became so important to the culture that they kind of HAD to.

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#mythology sh*tposting #chinese mythology #lego monkie kid #journey to the west #mythology #5 elements #8 trigrams #eight trigrams #yin and yang #taijitu #chinese cosmology #feng shui #lmk #sun wukong

[illustratus]

The Flag of Tibet - Tibetan national flag - The Snow Lion flag

Two snow lions holding a flaming blue, white and orange jewel and a blue and orange taijitu on a white mountain with a gold sun rising over it, all over 12 red and blue alternating rays with a gold border around the upper, lower, and hoist side of the flag.

#tibet #flag #tibetan #asia #east asia #snow lion #snow lions #flags #mountain #sun #rising sun #jewel #taijitu #rays #snowlion #celestial #mountains

[infinitesofnought]

To suffer is the supreme modality of taking the world seriously. Thus is born the conflict between the feeling of suffering, which confers an absolute value on the outside causes and the world, and theoretical perspective, arisen out of suffering, for which the world is nothing. Out of this paradox of suffering there is no escape.

– Emil Cioran, The Book of Delusions

[escape #1: including the excluded middle]

[escape #2: union of loving-kindness and emptiness]

#teach us to care and not to care #emil cioran #the book of delusions #loving-kindness #emptiness #dharma #taijitu

[amuletbeyourguide]

☯️ TAIJITU (ou Yin Yang) ☯️

Ce symbole Taoïste est très rependu mais peu de gens connaissent sa vraie signification.

Il s'agit de la représentation de deux énergies opposées mais complètementaires qui tendent à l'harmonie ⚖

Nous sommes composé d'une énergie majoritaire et d'une energie minoritaire opposée. Le secret de l'harmonie consiste en l'acceptation de chacune d'elle.

Il s'agira toujours d'équilibrer ces deux énergies, en soi et avec autrui ☯️

#healing #journaling #spiritualité #spirituality #be yourself #yin #yinyang #yang #taijitu #taoism #asian #sacred feminine #sacredmasculine

[tea-the-not-understanding]

eeeeee redesign on one of my old cookie run oc

This is Taijitu cookie, the first one are his full form while the bottom are what he look like, if split into two, as Yin and Yang

Yin is the left one, he's an asshole Yang is on the right, a smartass

while Taijitu is calm, collected and thoughtful before making actions. Yin and Yang never thinks before do something, but they both are a perfect gossip materials with Mystic flour.

Below are my design and art of these three from 2022

the art improvements is real y'all njkazdkajn

#taijitu cookie #yin cookie #yang cookie #cookie run oc #oc #cookie run #yin and yang

[elcuervoborracho]

Another illustrated one-shot is up! This time it's Glynda vs Salem, who do you think takes the win?

Summary:

Some would fall to fear, doubt or cowardice if they were ever so unlucky as to face Salem in combat. Immortal, with hordes of Grimm at her command, and Magic at her disposal, the witch's status above the rest of humanity is unequaled, unrivaled. And yet, the entirety of Beacon Academy agreed: If anyone could survive against such a monster, it was Glynda Goodwitch, the Headmistress.

The strongest Huntress in Beacon goes up against the Queen of Grimm, a decisive battle in the Grimm-infested lands of the Evernight castle.

And this time there are seven illustrations for this one! This time I'm keeping the non-spoilers illustrations above the cut

#rwby #fic #one-shot #Salem vs Glynda #Salem #Glynda Goodwitch #illustrated fic #Grimm #Nevermore #King Taijitu #tw blood #fanart #art #my art #artists on tumblr #black and white art

[feedthegrimm]

Bucking forward, then lunging back, the white-head would swallow down Pyrrha and enjoy the feel of her sliding down it's long body to it's middle, but it's not like Grimm had stomachs like humans or animals, whatever they ate would simply be broken down entirely, only here, the live prey would get to see the end of their life in it's dark innards as they became a gloop that would be absorbed by it's eater.

And with that, Pyrrha found herself being eaten alive, sliding into the monster's warm, flesh insides. Now, true darkness overcame her, as the monster's essence began breaking her down. Pyrrha slowly but surely felt herself melting away into nothing. Her last thoughts were of those close to her, before oblivion overcame her...

#Taijitu Anon

[snackugaki]

...man, i hate squawking in the text field, but the tags cannot contain me on this

ok so i’m a normal amount of normal about this. absolutely.

however...

i am also unattended and so my actions will prove why that is probably not great.

anyway, i love monikers, nom de plumes, sobriquets, y’know, pseudonyms if you will, code names even. 8D y’wanna know how I came up with them??????//?

okay okay okay, so! I will (until someone comes for me, but no one will ‘cuz y’all are cowards, I say, knowing my childhood nostalgia is doing a lot of the heavy lifting in my affection for Next Mutation but also i love camp) acknowledge and self-impose the title of Next Mutation trash lover as a disclaimer for why I’m gonna do another quick run down of Venus’ origin again. but a quick skim because a bitch is losing against her insomnia demon rn. 

now, a lot of the kids know that Venus = magic, in general. however, at least to me, intentionally or not Venus was more portrayed like a daoist... ‘magician’ of sorts, but less in a real world daoist sense and more of a cultivator in the xianxia genre sort of way. granted she wears the taijitu (yin yang symbol) and literally showed the boys her box of herbal medicine (and one dessicated vampire heart lololol). and now that I mentioned all of that, I can segue into why I gave her “White Snake” as a code name-- in that I chose it after Bai Suzhen/Bai Shejing which now that my insomnia riddled mind  is typing it out... my reasoning is actually pretty shallow, they both cultivate technically speaking, both work with herbal medicine and they just wanna help people. also just ‘cuz IDW has Venus wearing white now.

wao. thassit ig welp

jennika’s I just futz around with her name like jennika jenn i ka jen nika nikaaa niko niki nike nike like the greek goddess of victory. great. ok cool now ochre? no, mustard? no, gold? yes, ok nike gold it is lolz

‘cuz I was following the formula like in the show, Purple Knight, Yellow Submarine, Red King, Orange Pawn, Blue... something, Rook? Bishop? idk lemme alone but also there’s only so many chess pieces so I kept the color coding at least

then just asked tychou for what they’d think Mona Lisa’s code name’d be for as much as Venus and Jennika are my girls, Mona Lisa’s tychou’s.

#fanart of fanart #donathan i'm so sorry #i know you gotta be sick of my ass flopping around in here #to everyone else? #yes actually #i AM trying to aim for your life #I saw the unhinged responses to donathan's first couple of tactical! donnie art #... #i'm an equal opportunity murderer #everyone gets to thirst #*secretly aims specifically for laundry's life* #pew pew #goddamn my ass is getting BEAT by insomnia #oh well #hey what're YOU doing at the devil's sacrament? #(i never left the sacrament) #tychou loves mona lisa #snackugaki loves venus and jennika #hello my name is snackugaki #and i'm a professional turtle bully #and his eyebrows ARE doing 90% of the work #eyebrows are ALWAYS doing 90% of the work #generally speaking #shout out to tychou #how's that Tank Girl AU going? #:3c #i will have company in AU hell #HI #WELCOME

[queenburd]

Taijitu. Balance between black and white. The symbol didn't always have the two dots, you know. In the original concept, yin and yang symbolized stillness and activeness of all things in the universe, respectively. The substance of the universe moves as an active force, until it reaches its limit and becomes still; and yet even that stillness reaches a limit, and becomes active again. The dots, added during the Ming Dynasty, have since their inception been a portrayal of how one will always be the source of the other, and so both will always exist. There will always be an interconnected, interwoven, powerful bond between these two forces in flux.

Which doesn't mean much, to those of us who don't study Taoist philosophy or history. Most of us just appreciate the duality of opposites, who cannot help but have a grain of commonality. One does not and cannot overtake the other. Round and round they go, an endless chase.

Or, one might note, a dance between partners. Momentum carried through. Weight supported. Stepping in sync.

—the theory of relativity. (we’ve been here before.)

#tsp #the stanley parable #tsp narrator #tsp stanley #tsp fanart #tspud #tspud art #tsp ultra deluxe #the sparrow parable #may writes

[howlingday]

Jaune's Shampoo

King Taijitu

"DAMMIT, NORA!" Jaune opened his shower door. As he exited, he noticed his body had drastically changed. Using a mixture of his shampoo and experimental goo found at the fiendish Dr. Merlot's laboratory, Nora had unwittingly created a mutagen just to prank her team leader.

"Brrr! When did it get so cold?!" Jaune asked as his scales slid across the tiled floor. He glanced to his belly and noticed it, along with his hips, legs, and feet had been entirely replaced by a long snake tail. Or was this a snake's hips and legs? As he glanced at his obsidian scales, he noticed the question mattered less and less to him.

"Whatever." Jaune tossed on a shirt and picked up his pants. As he left the bathroom, he noticed the dorm was empty, save for one person. "Oh, hello."

Emerald stood around with a bored look on her face. That is, until she saw Jaune was now half-snake under his shirt. When she was assigned to keep an eye on Team JNPR by Cinder, this was not something she was expecting at all.

"Teammates, am I right?" Jaune sighed.

"Yeah," Emerald agreed, "but I don't think Merc ever thought of anything like this." She stepped aside as he slithered to his closet. Even by her standards, this was a bit too far for a prank.

"Anything I can help you with?" Jaune asked.

"Not really." She replied. "I was basically dragged in here by your pink friend." He scoffed and rolled his eyes as he set his pants inside. "So, uh, what exactly happened to you?"

"I have no idea," he answered, "I was just taking a shower and then this happened." His tail slapped the ground a bit. "I think she did something to my shampoo."

"Really?" Emerald asked, still standing awkwardly to the side.

"Oh, uh, would you like a seat?" Jaune scratched his cheeky with a goofy grin. "Sorry, I didn't mean to make you feel awkward."

"I mean, about as awkward as a ten foot snake-person can make somebody." Emerald took a seat on one of the beds. "So, shampoo swap, huh? Could be worse."

"Worse than shampoo turning me into a snake?" He shut the closet door.

"Yeah," she crossed her legs, "it could make you smell like trash, or worse."

"I guess." Jaune shrugged as he climbed onto his bed. His tail hung off the side as he reached for his comic books. "I don't even know what I smell like."

"You didn't smell your shampoo before using it?" She quirked a brow.

"Am I supposed to?" Judging by the look she gave, he was. "Oh." Then he had a dumb idea. "Uh, I know we don't know each other, but, uh, could you smell me?"

Emerald winced like he just asked her to move a body. She would, but he didn't need to know that. But she would have just been sitting around awkwardly otherwise, so she might as well help this kid out. Steeling her stomach, she got up and moved closer.

As she leaned in, there was strong aroma of amber, accented by the sweeter scents of berries. She gave a soft hum and leaned closer to get a better whiff. As she did, she noticed how glossy his black scales were. She could feel a warmth building in her chest.

"Um," Jaune said in a muffled voice, "I don't know if my hair smells good, but could I keep some personal space?" Emerald looked down and saw she he trapped him against her breast. She stepped away, a rising heat to her face. "Uh, thank you." His own face was flushed.

"No problem." Emerald coughed into her fist. What the hell was that? Just a few seconds ago, he was just some goofy guy Cinder told her to keep an eye on and was locked into a room by his teammate. Now she was pushing him against her tits while huffing his hair? What the hell was in that shampoo?! "Uh, sorry about that. I just... really liked the smell."

"Oh, uh... thanks?" Jaune shrugged awkwardly. He'd never been that close to a woman that wasn't his family, and especially not held in a way that made him feel that uncomfortable. A tinge of pink flushed over his cheeks. "So, uh-"

"Do you want to make out?"

The question came from so far out of left field, Jaune simply stared at her. She was beautiful, sure, but he also barely knew her. In times like these, Jaune had to ask himself, "What would Ren do?"

"I appreciate the offer," Jaune answered, trying to keep his voice as neutral as possible, "but I think we should get to know each other more before jumping into this. Otherwise we might regret it." Perfect Ren.

"I'll pay you twenty lien for just one minute." Emerald said, producing the legal tender.

Ren is only human, and even then twenty lien is twenty lien.

"Yeah, that sounds-" Emerald tackled him, pressing her lips into his. As she clutched his face in her hands, her tongue prodded through and began a battle of passion against his. Jaune, high on the adrenaline of the sudden assault, instinctively wrapped his arms and, oddly enough, his tail around the mystery girl.

On his bed, Jaune and Emerald continued to make out, even as his team returned.

"Told ya it would work." Nora winked to Ren.

#rwby #Jaune's shampoo #jaune arc #emerald sustrai #topaz #nora valkyrie #lie ren

[hadesisqueer]

King Taijitu Grimm making a comeback in Vacuo and looking as cool as ever so true

#rwby #rwby justice league

[oddlyhale]

The Sandworms and the King Taijitu could totally take over Vacuo. The Sandworm Grimm just has to burrow through the kingdom underground and create openings for the King Taijitus to slither out of and eat people.

This is just me thinking about how detrimental the Sandworms could be since they burst through the ground and have giant teeth that are working as bulldozers.

#rwde

[infinitesofnought]

Onward to the dead sea they tramp to drink, unslaked and with horrible gulpings, the salt somnolent inexhaustible flood. And the equine portent grows again, magnified in the deserted heavens, nay to heaven's own magnitude, till it looms, vast, over the house of Virgo. And lo, wonder of metempsychosis, it is she, the everlasting bride, harbinger of the daystar, the bride, ever virgin. It is she, Martha, thou lost one, Millicent, the young, the dear, the radiant. How serene does she now arise, a queen among the Pleiades, in the penultimate antelucan hour, shod in sandals of bright gold, coifed with a veil of what do you call it gossamer. It floats, it flows about her starborn flesh and loose it streams, emerald, sapphire, mauve and heliotrope, sustained on currents of cold interstellar wind, winding, coiling, simply swirling, writhing in the skies a mysterious writing till, after a myriad metamorphoses of symbol, it blazes, Alpha, a ruby and triangled sign upon the forehead of Taurus.

– James Joyce, Ulysses

#taijitu #asemic #desire #all/not-all #james joyce #ulysses

[doomalade]

I’m sorry this scene is just so stupid

First off, Vacuo is literally just two colors. Sandy brown and blue.

There’s barely any sand dunes or rocks or anything else it feels like a line was drawn in the middle and then fill color was used.

Also is it just me or is the King Taijitu disconnected? Like it isn’t the two headed snake but two snakes just in the same area. Which given that Taijitu is the name of the Yin and Yang symbol and the reason why I personally love the design is because it was so unique and interesting.

One little thing I do like about this is that Yang is fighting the white head of the Taijitu. The white part of a Taijitu is the Yang. The joke has been completed, mission accomplished.

And then we have Ruby fighting the black snake head with assistance from Weiss which then leads to Yang, Blake, and Weiss being concerned for Ruby’s safety?

Like okay?

So the character who can turn into rose pedals and fly away from harm and has done far more crazy stuff than this is supposed to be in danger right now? Even with her aura still intact? Even though Weiss has her gravity glyphs? Even though Blake could use her shadows or Gambol Shroud to catch Ruby and get her out of harms way? Even Yang who can basically fly with her gauntlets? Even though Ren solo’d a King Taijitu during initiation at Beacon and caught it’s fangs with his bare hands?

I feel like this is a massive over course correction following V9 and WBY coming off as uncaring for Ruby. Speaking of which, ended with WBY confident that Ruby had what it takes to keep fighting and keep going.

#rwby #doom.txt #Youtube

[tea-the-not-understanding]

in a mood to draw Taijitu as thick noodle

#taijitu cookie #cookie run oc #oc

[bestworstcase]

Notion: the Ever After *is* the Crown of Choice, and Team RWBY (but especially Ruby) used its power in choosing themselves while they were there.

Maybe CC was some kind of corruption of the relic's avatar?

the crown's vault is hidden here:

ozpin and his obsession with symbols gives the game away from the beginning; beacon's initiation is an allegorical re-enactment of ozma's mandate:

"it is in your best interest to be paired with someone with whom you can work well"—but partnership is based on "the first person you make eye contact with after landing." that imitates ozma's form of reincarnation. (he isn't able to talk to oscar until oscar makes eye contact with his own reflection, and he doesn't get to choose "the souls with which he [is] paired.")

"you will meet opposition along the way; do not hesitate to destroy everything in your path, or you will die." the grimm in these woods are a stand-in for salem. why would ozpin warn the kids not to hesitate to destroy grimm? because he's remembering how he hesitated regarding salem.

"you will be monitored and graded through the duration of your initiation, but our instructors will not intervene." like the god of light watches humankind without intervention while ozma tries to fulfill his task.

the abandoned temple is a metaphor for remnant itself—a godless world abandoned by its divine creators because humanity rejected the gods.

in the abandoned temple are "several relics," and each pair is to "choose one and return to the top of the cliff," where they will be judged—"we will regard that item, and your standing, and grade you appropriately."

<- i wonder where he hid the relic of choice!

moreover, the sheer number of grimm in the forest is alarming—and unusual. there's several ursai, a huge pack of beowolves, a king taijitu, a deathstalker, and a nevermore; in after the fall CFVY get driven to the ruins and then surrounded by large numbers of grimm. contrast RNJR's trek across anima (qrow picking off grimm one or two at a time, long stretches of narrative in between serious encounters) or the uneventful journey from brunswick farm to argus, or the menagerie arc and its complete lack of grimm. or even forever fall forest, with its lone ursa.

the emerald forest is comparable to mountain glenn in terms of grimm density, without the wyvern or the criminal enterprise to draw them to the area. why are there so many grimm in the forest?

the grimm are drawn to the relics. surrounded by population centers, that attraction might be lost in the noise, but if ozpin planted a relic in a vault in the wilderness…? :)

as to the ever after, the cat's domain is knowledge and i'd argue that it's jabber who's associated with choice: he symbolizes the discovery of free will as much as he does the creation of death, in that the brothers made him to fulfill a specific purpose and he became something they did not expect or approve and could not get back under control, and it was at this point that the brothers split between choice-as-duty vs choice-as-freedom which is the foundation of their ideological disagreement.

my wildest and most tenuous guess (i wouldn't even call it a theory because it's largely just vibes-based) is that the spirit in the crown is. prometheus. to wrap everything with salem and cinder and the divine rebellion theme up in a tidy "stole-fire-from-gods" bow

my more grounded theory is that the crown's true power is something akin to the ozian golden cap, which 1. would explain why ozpin is so particularly afraid of salem getting THAT one, and 2. dovetails neatly with the god of light's understanding of choice as a dichotomy between obedience or defiance. the flying monkeys are enslaved by the golden cap and bound to obey any command given by the cap's wearer, up to three times. the relic of choice is a crown, an object that connotes absolute authority. if jinn can answer any question and ambrosius can create anything given the instructions for how to do so, then what is the spirit in the crown bound to do?