Trigram
Heaven
乾Ch'ien (Wade-Giles) · qián(pinyin)
the creative, strong — the sky, the strong, the untiring.
- Attribute
- the creative, strong
- Direction
- northwest
- Season
- late autumn into early winter
- In the family
- the father
- Image
- the sky, the strong, the untiring
Directions and seasons follow the Later Heaven arrangement, the one Wilhelm's commentary uses.
Doubled, it speaks as
As the lower trigram
- 01 The Creative
- 05 Waiting
- 09 The Taming Power of the Small
- 11 Peace
- 14 Possession in Great Measure
- 26 The Taming Power of the Great
- 34 The Power of the Great
- 43 Break-through
As the upper trigram
In the constellation
Ch'ien in the field: the doubled figure, where the trigram speaks in its own voice, and chapters that carry it above and below.