Astrology Glossary

Yin yang

Also called: 陰陽

陰陽, the paired qualities every Chinese character carries. Yang is the active, outward, expressive side; yin the receptive, inward, gathering one. Neither is better: a chart needs both, and the same element behaves quite differently in its yang and yin forms.

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