The sun (or the day) is the symbol of what is yang.
The moon is the symbol of what is yin.
The yang numbers culminate in 9, the influence then receding and producing the 8 of the smaller yin. The yin numbers culminating in 6, and the next advance produces the 7 of the smaller yang.
So that 7 and 8 are numbers indicating the first birth of what is yin and what is yang.
When you view the Tai Chi symbol the two dots, or as I depict the two tadpoles, represent 7 and 8 which as indicated above are the birth of what will be both yin and yang. As they grow and expand they become 6 and 9 which in the I Ching are changing because as they reach their end they will change to their opposite and thus become 7 and 8 again for the birth of the opposites.
White (red) is yang while black is yin, i.e. white is sun or day while black is night thus sun and moon symbolized in the tai chi symbol.
If this is true then one realizes that the numbers 6 and 9 being the full yin-yang are then Heaven and Earth as represented in the I Ching by Ch'ien and K'un.
What are these numbers? They are the numbers used in the divination through the book of changes. When you use the yarrow stalks or the three coins the process/tosses give you four numbers, i.e. 6, 7, 8, or 9, which represent either a broken line, solid line, broken line that changes, and a solid line that changes to build the trigram to hexagram.
This is further proof of Bushi Tatsuo Sensei abilities as a sumachi who used the book of changes for his interpretations of the ken-po goku-i shows this by the first two tomes, specifically, which talk of heaven, earth, and man (person) along with the sun, moon, and the cycles it presents both by the symbolic meaning and numerology, i.e. the numbers represented to the book of changes. The other six tomes of the ken-po goku-i also indirectly relate to these first two as they take the karate-ka into the particulars of the mental/psychological and physical aspects of training and practice.
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