Image by Steve Alexander © 2007

The short bar with circles either side is a way of signifying yin. The two longer bars with no dots represent yang. So we have one yin with two yang above. This is the trigram WIND. Wind means gentle effects, small efforts, penetrating work. Wind is akin to wood and relates to early summer, mild movement and the body part of thigh.

One could interpret this as indicating that a gentle wind of change and purification is blowing across Mother Earth. Although gentle in appearance this wind will penetrate deeply and have profound, lasting effects. The thigh is the strongest, most weight bearing part of the body. Perhaps this is telling us something about the solidity and hidden strength of the wind.

A Native American prophecy speaks of a purifying wind that will flatten the corn,I believe.

- Michael

Last Saturday (07/07/07!) my husband and I were exploring the iron age hill fort on Stantonbury Hill when we saw a crop circle below which you do not yet have on your excellent web site. The design is a classical oriental Yin and Yang, with a complex border which may represent the I Ching symbols, but I don’t know enough about that to say for sure.

The nearest town is Marksbury, south-west of Bath, Somerset.

In previous years I have been in several other circles in the Bath area, and this one is very odd in that the standing crop is all leaning at an angle, as if the whole field had been pushed sideways by the circle making energy!

- Paula Stone-Jarvis

I may be way off base here but is this crop circle telling us a return of the feminine or higher frequency energies ? the clues are in the i-ching.

The concept of yin and yang originates in ancient Chinese philosophy and metaphysics, which describes two primal opposing but complementary forces found in all things in the universe. Yin, the darker element, is passive, dark, feminine, downward-seeking, and corresponds to the night and the moon; yang, the brighter element, is active, light, masculine, upward-seeking and corresponds to the day and the sun.

I Ching - Field - K'un
Earth (Yin)
Season: (Late Summer - early Autumn)

Field K'un:
The womb that gives birth and nourishes
This trigram is made up of only broken lines. It symbolises a yielding mother figure, someone receptive devoted, but in some ways dark. This trigram is also symbolic of the power to give shape and substance to things, making thoughts and images visible. The earth that yields the crops.

I also noticed that the i-ching lines were similar to The cross of the archangels. also known as the Golgtha cross.

- RC