Last time we talked about avoiding negative energy. It would be worth reviewing that article before reading this one.

 

Here is the idealized energy symbol we used in our last discussion. You can see that we have a red vertical line, a blue horizontal line, a circle, some plus and minus symbols and a diagonal line. What does it all mean? You know it means something, right? Wait a minute – there’s another saying – “Nothing has any meaning, except the meaning you give it”.

The Red vertical line represents male energy. It stands upright, tall, singular, alone, strong. It reaches for Heaven but also represents the sword and the spear. Male energy is firmly planted “on” the ground and is hard to move. Its shape is a square and cube and it builds vertically. It is difficult to push over and is so perfectly shaped that many cubes can be piled on top of each other and still remain stable. Red is the colour of blood and fire, active energy, looking to explore and grow, conquer and consume, build and destroy.

While the male energy wants to build tall, it is capable of being “trained” to stand together. Cubes that stand side-by-side (like soldiers), having given up their own individual identity for the good of the group or another persuasive goal (or belief), create an impenetrable line. Turn this into a tight grid of cubes and it can be defended from all sides (this is the basis of male dominated civilisation). It can also become a foundation to build upon – even taller and stronger into a tower or 4 sided step pyramid shape.

The male square/cube is a very difficult shape to draw. It takes all kinds of maths and geometry and tools and time. On the other hand, once the math is mastered, it is easy to build. Squares do not generally appear in nature. Only male energy would use this shape as the basic design feature of all its creations. Houses, walls, doors, windows, televisions, picture frames, desks, it’s everywhere. Male energy is so rigid and unchangeable.

I guess you think that the blue horizontal line has something to do with Female energy? Good, that is correct. Female energy is a surface dweller. It looks at the horizon and the earth and water. It tends to spread out and create a network of connections. It is almost impossible to grow vertically because its shape is the circle and sphere. Spheres are very mobile and as they move around, they come into contact with each other – however, the point of contact, both with the ground and other spheres, is really small. Unlike the massive surface area of two cubes in contact with each other, the spheres do not form a stable connection. They are “free” to move away or shift their focus or just explore. They look around all over the place, but always at the same level. They see heart to heart (as centre-lines touch) and explore every aspect of what they are focused on, while they are focused on it.

Bring three spheres together and their centres form an equilateral triangle. Place a forth sphere on top of the other three and their centres now create a tetrahedron, a three sided pyramid (plus the base), this is the basic building block of the universe. However, we all know that you can’t just put four balls together like that and expect them to stay put. They move apart and the structure collapses. They need to be “bounded” and held together, not an easy task. Circles are very easy to draw – just identify the centre and radius and just a flick of the wrist, you are done. If you destroy a circle, you only need the tiniest piece to remain and the whole circle can be reproduced perfectly, without error. You can’t do that with a square. However, Circular objects are very difficult to make.

The blue is the colour of water and life-growth (natural creation). Unlike the male kind of growth, this growth is organic, nurturing, inclusive, sharing and feeling. The spheres want to touch and feel every other sphere and are able to do it. The Cubes only relate the next cube and only through the one face. There is no connection to any other cube in the tall structure – one up and one down is all you see. This reflects the hierarchical structures created in our civilizations.

Have you ever tried to build a tower of blocks and include a ball in the middle somewhere? It just doesn’t work. Even if you add the ball to the very top, the lone female energy at the top of a male tower, it won’t stay there, it can’t. It has been separated from everything it knows and understands, it wants to move and explore at heart level, but there is nothing at heart level in a male tower. If it moves more than the size of the one male block that supports it, it will fall. The only way to make it even work a little would be to chip off some pieces of the female ball and create some flat areas to provide some stability.

How about putting a block on top of spheres – one block on top of one sphere? Not likely. However, you can see a whole bunch of spheres holding a block off the ground and passing it around as they all move about. The block is on a roller-coaster, up and down, tilting here and there, rolling over, being examined from all directions at once. This is not a structure the male is used to, although he may enjoy the experience, for a while.

The horizontal bar is also the bar of the Scales of Justice (card 8 in the Tarot). It connects the two pans together and also keeps them apart. Without this feminine bar there would be no Justice – do you think that there is real Justice in the male dominated world?

In the medicine wheel, the blue line is the road of Spirit (east/west) and the red line is the road of Life (south/north).

These two completely opposite energies CROSS each other at the centre. It is the ancient equal sided cross. It is the number X (10) in the Tarot and represents one of the oldest symbols in human mythology, the Wheel (of Life). There are six spokes in the wheel of life and our green line makes up the other missing two. The spokes are not equally spaced around the wheel. In fact, it looks like there should be another 45 degree angle to create eight spokes – which many Tarot cards do depict. However, the symbol is a Cross and an I, that is IX, which is the name of Jesus and the number 9 – The Hermit.

The Green Line also separates our positive and negative energies. You have noticed that the pluses are red and the minuses are blue – there’s a clue. Yes, the positive energy is male and the negative is female. The male energy is also White, Summer and relates to the Sun, while the female energy is Black, Winter and relates to the Moon.

 

Another way to represent all this is the easily recognised Yin-Yang symbol (female-male). This symbol shows our human energies are not so clear-cut and evenly divided. We each have both male and female energy in us, but express them to different degrees.

So what is the “stretched” symbol all about? The Yin-Yang is a circle and has just one centre, the same as we have been discussing so far. However, as scientist eventually discovered, orbits don’t tend to be circular, they are elliptical, like the elongated symbol. The Yin-Yang symbol hints at this by showing both of the two small opposite circles at the centre of their respective half-circles. If these are used as centres to draw two more equal sized circles, we have the basis for a whole new discussion about how our Duality works within our own personal orbit.

John