3/8/2024 0 Comments I ching hexagram 12 meaning![]() Thus, the yin energy of Hexagram 02 is actually in a weaker position than the preceding hexagram even if there is more of it since it’s not rising but de-accelerating. Once you get to the bottom, you can only rise up. It’s worth it to remember that, when the period of time that absolute yin represents occurs (the winter solstice, midnight, the new moon) it is not only a time of complete darkness but a time when darkness is actually diminishing and light is increasing. In terms of the I Ching, Hexagram 02 is not a bad or a good place to be. The gender ideal is a person who turns everything into a purely domineering power dynamic without having to do anything. This is the ethos of the ultimate uke who turns everyone they meet into a seme. Instead of asking for love, he asks to be hurt. In CUT, he experiences a lot of sexual violence and, when he pursues his love interest, he can only ask for love in a fucked up way. Sakaguchi is a pretty strong willed character. The thing to keep in mind is that absolute yin is not a weak position. The character who embodies Hexagram 02 is Sakaguchi from CUT by Toko Kawai. These hexagrams correspond to the 12 sign zodiac belt, with absolute yin(broken lines)/uke corresponding to the winter solstice and absolute yang (unbroken lines)/seme corresponding to the summer solstice.įor each hexagram, I’m using the number that it’s associated with from the 64 hexagram sequence so the numbers that refer to each one will not be sequential.Ġ2. I decided to investigate what types of uke and seme could be represented by 12 different hexagrams within the I Ching. You can read several types of power dynamics within the fluctuating dynamics between an uke and a seme just like you can read many power dynamics between yin and yang. Just like the hexagrams within the I Ching, the dynamics between an uke and a seme are about power. ![]() The I Ching is a gender system, just like yaoi, but is it not a colonial gender system which means that it is fundamentally and absolutely meaningless. If you had to gender a pencil and an eraser in this context, then what kind of gender would you assign it? What kind of association does your fabricated gender have? What kind of story or atmosphere does the tension between these genders hold? Which is the seme and which is the uke? The pencil or the eraser?Īfter you’ve played this game a couple times, you can understand the I Ching. ![]() Of course, the pencil must live with the knowledge that everything it does must be done under the supervision and the control of the eraser. The eraser is not able to initiate anything on its own but relies on the pencil to tell it what to do. On the other hand, the pencil necessarily sets the pace for all of their interactions. On one hand, the eraser is able to remove everything that the pencil wants to do. If you’ve ever seen the popular webcomic/video series “My Girlfriend is a Fujoshi,” you’ll have heard of this one: within the dynamic between a pencil and an erase, who is the seme and who is the uke? Not only were seme and uke a binary within the yaoi system but there also existed a binary between stories about rape that were openly aggressive towards patriarchal emotions and fluffy cutesy shit that reinforced patriarchal desires. A lot of the stuff popular during the early 2000s (gravitation, CUT, Viewfinder) were all pretty fucked up in terms of their willingness and also the acceleration at which they aimed to destroy gender-at the cost of destroying themselves. Folks who grew up with yaoi will understand. ![]() So, there’s a lot of gender varieties within yaoi.
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