Heaven乾

Three solid lines. Heaven, strength and the father.

Image
Heaven
Nature
Strong
Direction
Northwest
Family
Father
Animal
Horse
Body
Head
乾坤震巽坎離艮兌
Its place in the later heaven order

乾,健也。乾為馬。乾為首。

Shuo Gua

What it is

The pure yang trigram. It stands in the northwest in the later heaven order, where the Shuo Gua says yin and yang strike against each other.

Sources Shuo Gua, Yi Zhuan.