dear doris. what is the meaning of yin yang? why do i keep seeing it everywhere?
issue 25 ♡ yin carries lightness in darkness & yang has darkness present in its lightness
dear doris. what is the true meaning behind yin yang? why do i keep seeing it everywhere? love symbol seeker
dear seeker
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part I.
i first became infatuated with yin yang about ten years ago. i was living in the northern beaches of sydney and heavily influenced and entrenched in vintage surf symbols and paraphernalia — obsessed. it was there the yin yang resurfaced — that i had seen throughout my life with a disinterested second generation chinese-australian lens. i digress — i was so into it, that i proceeded to design patchwork yin yang cushions in washed denims and linen for years and printed the symbol onto a range of t-shirts. i took it as a sign to slow down and to encourage others to sit and take a breath and find balance. little did i know at the time that the symbol was preparing me for a greater lesson coming.
fast forward five years later — my firstborn kawa has passed into spirit. it’s a year after her unbearable departure from earth. i find myself amongst the great redwood trees in northern california in the throws of a ayahuasca ceremony. that night i am shown by the great grandmother spirit aya that my purpose in life — to put it simply, succinctly — is to suffer and die and could i please let everyone else know — that they are all here to suffer and die too. it was emblazoned in capital letters across my clairvoyant screen and so dramatic and dire that i burst into laughter.
i asked incredulously for wise grandmother to clarify — let me get this straight. my job here is to suffer and die. and then, i must tell everyone — all of humanity — that they are here too — to SUFFER AND DIE. that’s right, she said — however on the flip side to this, there is love and faith. on the other side of darkness we have always have love and faith. it was then — she presented me with the yin yang sign.
i am transported to a war scene from lifetimes ago — i am being given the experience of a soldier suffering on the battlefield. he is captured and tortured. i feel his incredible amount of pain and suffering throughout my entire being. however i also feel he is holding tight onto faith knowing he will survive and be saved. the next scene, he is holding a baby — she is his darling baby girl and i am too sharing the experience of brimming with exquisite love while tears roll from our eyes and land on her tender little face. these scenes are repeated. i am taken into several incarnations of human souls suffering and then the experience of unfathomable joy and insurmountable love at the end of the tunnel.
i have been granted this experience of clairsentience — the ability to perceive emotional energy and what another soul is feeling deeply as they experience it. it is in the throws of traversing through time and trauma through others pain, that i realise the suffering is all the one and the same — as my own. i look up to see the yin yang glowing in my vision and truly understand the gravitas of this symbol.
in the darkness of disaster, dis-ease and danger — we carry a flicker, a spot of lightness that will carry us through the highest degree of suffering known to humankind. and when we sit in the seat of lightness and love — the darkness is ever present — a dot that tinges the experience into a bittersweet affair. the moments when tears, laughter and joy and heart pangs co-mingle in a party we call life.
so there you have it kids — i have broken the news as bequeathed by grandmother aya. we are all here to suffer and die (the dark side of yin) however there is always love and faith (the light side of yang) and together they serve to encapsulate life on earth in a super iconic symbol that is yin yang. if you are seeing it everywhere or feel yourself drawn towards it — allow it to absorb into your being and knowing.
part II.
the concept of yin yang is not new — it’s ancient actually. as ancient as human time and originated in middle earth (the old name for china) in the highlands where the early monks and wisdom keepers sought to create or draw or make a sign or symbol that would simplify the embodiment of life on earth. the yin (the dark/black) side with the yang dot within it, and the yang side (the light or white side) with a speck of yin within it too. the two sides conjoined together like a puzzle pieces to create a whole being, an entire entity and universe all in one.
the tiny speck or dot is where the true magick lies within, as you carry lightness in darkness and vice versa, darkness is always present in lightness, just enough so that you never forgot and there is a part of you rooted in both side of light and shadow no matter how and where you move through life.
you may experience laughter and love and lightness but deep within a tiny piece of sorrow remains, so that you know what it is that you are experiencing is merely the flip side of the coin. the head side is up but at any given moment the chances of flipping to tails is in the air and when it does flip you will carry a tiny piece of lightness with you in the darkness, that no matter how dire and dark the situation or lesson you will always have a tiny light lit and burning within, that reminds you that its not all black and white, it’s yin and yang.
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