Forests, houses or buildings being remodeled or repaired, music or concert halls, telecommunications offices, broadcast stations, lecture halls, auditoriums, power stations, electric companies, and gunpowder factories.
Occupations: Switchboard operators, telephone and telegraph operators, technicians, engineers, musicians, broadcast personnel or announcers, those working in record shops and music stores, and those engaged in businesses involving arms and munitions.
Articles: Firecrackers, fireworks, guns, rifles, rockets, gunpowder, pianos, organs, trumpets, records, clarinets, record players, stringed musical instruments, flutes, drums, guitars, bells, gongs, harmonicas, telephones.
Food: Green vegetables, bean sprouts, pomelos, grapefruits, lemons, bamboo shoots, and plums.
Animals: Eagles, swallows, canaries, larks, cicadas, bees, crickets, centipedes, spiders, and frogs.
Plants: Trees, green vegetables, bamboo, freshly sprouting or blossoming plants.
Season: Spring.
Weather: Clear, thunder, storms.
Color: Green or the color of something young or new. Direction: East.
Miscellaneous: Decision, struggle and determination, frivolousness, sourness, sunrise, flying, freshness, lectures, and satellite launching.
4. K'AN kan Abysmal
The second light trigram, the yang line coming in the middle, K'an symbolizes water. Rain falls from the sky, striking against rocks and cliffs. Sometimes it falls on trees and grass. Drop by drop it comes together forming a trickle, then a stream, then a river, and finally pours into an ocean. Therefore, K'an connotes trouble, danger, toil, sadness, and floods. It also means to accumulate or gather together, starting from the small and achieving the large.
Water descends from a higher elevation to a lower one. Thus K'an suggests the abysmal, lowness, the underground, and the low-lying. In everyday life it means poverty, want, worries, and sickness. It is the piercing and the penetrating. Yet there is a positive side—perseverance when confronted with danger and endurance in the face of toil will lead to success.
People: Middle sons or second sons, middle-aged men, bandits, thieves, "bad guys," evildoers, the sick, the blind, those with cares and woes, toilers, adulteresses, paramours, nymphomaniacs or sex maniacs, the dead.
Parts of the body: Ears, the anus, nostrils, the reproductive organs, the blood, the kidneys, sweat, and tears.
Sicknesses: Kidney ailments, earaches, venereal disease, hemorrhoids, and alcoholism.
Places: Large rivers, banquet or meeting halls, funeral parlors, hospitals, convalescent homes, wells, baths, brothels, caves, cold places, waterworks installations, aquariums, firehouses, waterfalls, hot springs.
Occupations: Bartender, bathhouse attendant, those working in a dye shop, brothel, or milkstand, prostitutes, and fishermen.
Articles: Waistbands, ink, oil, coal tar, varnish or lacquer, and medicine.
Food: Wine, soup, drinks, salt, soy sauce, seaweed, lotus roots, and sashimi (raw fish).
Animals: The fox, rats, bats, boars.
Plants: Plums, daffodils, narcissus, algae, hard wood.
Season: Winter.
Weather: Rainy, floods, heavy rains or downpours, cold, cloudy and dark.
Color: Blood red and black.
Direction: North.
Miscellaneous: Risks, dangers, cunning, trickery, salty, wisdom and intelligence, worries, thoughts, hidden crime and unrevealed guilt, social and sexual intercourse, theft, the moon, midnight, the melancholic and sick in spirit.
5. KEN gen Keeping still
The third of the light trigrams, the yang line being on top, Ken symbolizes mountains. As mountains do not move and are stationary, Ken connotes motionlessness, quietude, stopping, resting, being static, and cessation. As mountains are formed by piling up small particles of earth, Ken also means accumulation. The idea of completion has come to be attached to this trigram because Ken in plants is the fruit, meaning the completion of the plant.
People: Youngest sons, youths, the overweight, the hunch-backed (those with abnormal curvature of the spine), the greedy, the lazy, those who hoard wealth, and prisoners or convicts.
Parts of the body: The back, waist, nose, hands, fingers, joints, and fleshy tumors.
Sicknesses: Side aches, arthritis, illnesses caused by fatigue, and nasal inflammations.
Places: Buildings, doors, gates, paths, walls, graves, hotels, garages, dikes, stairs, high stages or platforms.
Occupations: Monks, Taoist practitioners, the clergy (priests, ministers, rabbis, etc.), and the restaurant business.
Articles: Things stored up or piled together, screens, tables, and building blocks.
Food: Preserved foods, sweets.
Animals: Dogs, rats, bulls, oxen, tigers.
Plants: Fruits (grown on trees).
Season: Late winter to early spring.
Weather: Cloudy, weather as if about to change.
Color: Dark yellow.
Direction: Northeast.
Miscellaneous: Sweetness, the twilight (night turning into day), tardiness, slowness, stubbornness, sincerity or candor, independence, loftiness, frugality, and saving.
6. SUN sun Gentle
The preceding three trigrams were the light and the three sons. The remaining three trigrams are the dark and the three daughters. The dark line (the yin or broken line) is on the bottom in Sun, in the middle in the seventh, and on top in the eighth and final trigram.
The eldest daughter, Sun symbolizes the wind. As the wind blows in from afar, it connotes distance, remoteness, and distant places. The wind reaches everywhere, hence its attribute is penetration. The wind stirs the air and keeps it flowing; thus Sun also means interflow or an intermediary role. Interflow and interaction easily suggest marriage (interaction between men and women), commerce and trade (interflow of goods), and credit. Sun is also the tall tree and wood.
It characterizes persevering labor and also vehemence. In general it suggests purity, completeness, and quiet contemplation. But it also can mean indecision.
People: Businessmen, travelers, eldest daughters, and sisters.
Parts of the body: Buttocks, thighs, elbows, the intestines, nerves, digestive tract, eyes.
Sicknesses: Colds, digestive ailments, an upset stomach, and diseases of the stomach and bowels.
Occupations: Those engaged in moving and transport, shipping, the construction
