Hexagram ䷌ TongRen 同人

Mystical Similarities

TianYuHuo TongRen JunZiYiLeiZuBianWu 

天與火 同人 君子以類族辨物

Heaven and Fire, which is the image of TongRen 同人. Learn from this - to be kind to your fellow friends and be clear about all the things.                                                                     

— DaXiang 大象   

The first word here, Tian 天, means heaven or sky, which is the name of the top trigram ☰, Qian 乾. The second word, Yu 與, means and. The third word, Huo 火  stands for the bottom trigram ☲, Li 離, which holds the symbolic meanings for the sun, bright, brightness, clear, understand, and illumination.

Fig. 1. A nature image depicting essence of the TongRen Hexagram

You might notice that this sentence started with just three words instead of the four Chinese characters that we have commonly seen. TianYuHuo 天與火, the structure of hexagram ䷌, does not describe the upper and lower relationship between the two trigrams ☰ and ☲ as we have seen in most hexagram DaXiang sentences. Instead, it is simply listed as parallel pairs: Heaven and Fire. This is very unusual in the DaXiang. We will delve into the reasons behind this as we go through the remainder of the sentence.