Yin is a force of nature - receptive. Yang is a force of nature - creative. Fundamentally the book of changes is about balance through opposites and acceptance of change.
The tai-chi is preceded by the wuji (mukyoku in jp.) [無極]. Wuji separates into tai-chi or yin and yang. These two symbols become four, the four become bagua and bagua describe all things of creation.
The limitless (wu-chi/wuji/mukyoku) produces the delimited, and htis is the absolute (tai chi). The Tai-chi produces two forms, named yin and yang. The two forms produce the four phenomena, named lesser yang, great yang, lesser yin, great yin. The four phenomena act on the eight trigrams (bagua), eight eights are sixty-four hexagrams.
The two spheres refer to heaven and earth, or yin and yang. The four elements are metal, wood, water and fire, which are omnipresent. The eight diagrams symbolize the eight natural phenomena: sky, earth, thunder, wind, water, fire, mountain and lake. The picture represented the ancient Chinese early knowledge of the Universe.
The basic idea of the yin-n-yang consists of two natural, complementary and contradictory forces of any phenomena in the universe, the principle of opposite polarity and duality.
Summer is old-yang; autumn is young-yang; winter is old-yin; sprint is young yin. Full moon is old yang; moon's decline first quarter is yong-yang; when the moon is full, it is old-yin; moon in last quarter is young-yin.
In divination as pertains to the I Ching, the inner aspect (a person) is combined with the outer aspect (a situation). Each hexagram represents a process, a change happening at the present moment.
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