Yet when I read articles like this one that breakdown the specific relationships so precisely I wonder how arbitrary those details are. According to this writer the musical note Te corrosponds with moon energy, and these plants: Cucumber, Rapeseed, Turnip, Melons, lettuce, linseed. I don't know? I imagine the author is describing the types of connections she has personally felt, but doubt there is universal application.
Moral of the story is I have to pay closer attention to the relationship between music and plants. Such as in the studies desribed in the Secret Life of Plants. Not that I'm about to embarck on extensive studies or anything. Maybe I will have to make room for this kind of information in my dream life.
I like this website that talks about a connection between herbs, music and hexagrams: http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/showthread.php?t=4371
So I think about dandelion, my "gateway herb". The hexagram works from the base up.
Yin (What kind of plant, root) *Except dandelion is the whole plant, flower, root, leaf, etc.
Changing Yin (What part of plant, root)
Changing Yang (When to harvest, autumn)
Yang (What it affects, solid organs)
Yin (What it produces, devoids)
Yang (What it tastes, bitter)
In the I Ching, this is the 56th hexagram, Sojourning/Quest, Lu (LÜ), "The Stranger", which connotes exile. Read some of that interpretation here.
According to the writer on onlineclarity, the musical corrospondences to dandelion would be:
Yin (percussion, deep and spaced)Changing Yin (stepping up halftone)
Yang (Non reverberant)
Yang (Higher octaves or female voice)
Yin (Silence)
Yang (Single voice or choir)
What kind of music is this? It's all over my head. I need someone who knows music to help me. I'm quite entertained.
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