Fellowship

I-Chinghex 13

Tóng Rén (同人) — Fellowship

Judgment: 同 (fellowship with, community) · 人 (others, people, humanity) · 于 (in, amidst; on) · 野 (countryside, wilds, uncultivated, frontier) · 亨 (fulfillment, satisfaction, success, completion) · 利 (worthwhile, rewarding, favorable) · 涉 (to cross, ford, ferry, venture, experience) · 大 (great, big, major) · 川 (stream, river, current, waters) · 利 (worth; rewarding, warranting, meriting) · 君 (noble, worthy, honored) · 子 (young one, heir, disciple) · 貞 (persistence, determination, resolve, loyalty) Image: 天 (heaven; the sky, celestial) · 與 (accompanies; along, together with) · 火 (fire, flame) · 同 (fellowship with) · 人 (others) · 君 (noble, worthy, honored) · 子 (young one, heir, disciple) · 以 (according to; uses; with, by) · 類 (kind, type, class, category, species) · 族 (family, clan, tribe, relation, kin) · 辨 (to distinguish, identify, differentiate) · 物 (beings, creatures, entities, things) Line 1: 同 (fellowship with, community) · 人 (others, people, humanity) · 于 (at, by, before) · 門 (gate, door, entrance) · 無 (no; not; nothing; without, with no) · 咎 (blame; wrong; mistake, error) Line 2: 同 (fellowship with, community) · 人 (others, people, humanity) · 于 (only in, within, inside) · 宗 (clan, sect, faction, exclusive circle) · 吝 (embarrassment, humiliation; poverty) Line 3: 伏 (cache, hide, conceal, crouching with) · 戎 (weapons, arms; armed) · 于 (in, inside, within, amidst) · 莽 (underbrush, thicket, bushes, weeds) · 升 (climbing up, ascending to) · 其 (one's, the, that) · 高 (highest, prominent, lofty) · 陵 (hills, ridge, mound; ground) · 三 (three) · 歲 (years, seasons, harvests) · 不 (of, with no, not much, without) · 興 (exuberance, rising up, encouragement) Line 4: 乘 (mounting, climbing up on, upon, astride) · 其 (one's, the, that, those) · 墉 (battlement, ramparts; fortified wall) · 弗 (but not, un-; nowhere; cannot) · 克 (capable of; able to) · 攻 (to attack, take the offensive; aggression) · 吉 (promising, lucky, auspicious; good fortune) Line 5: 同 (fellowship with, community) · 人 (others, people, humanity) · 先 (begins, starts, leading with, in) · 號 (wailing, howling, crying out; outcry) · 咷 (weeping; lament, complaint, moaning) · 而 (and then, but then, yet) · 後 (follows with, is followed by; afterwards) · 笑 (laughter, good humor, mirth, merriment) · 大 (great, large, big, whole, complete, mighty) · 師 (armies, hosts, legions) · 克 (can manage, master; are able) · 相 (each other) · 遇 (to entertain, meet, receive, accepting) Line 6: 同 (fellowship with, community) · 人 (others, people, humanity) · 于 (in, on, at, before, facing, towards) · 郊 (outer districts, frontier, edge, horizon) · 無 (no, with no, without; nothing; not) · 悔 (to regret, repent of; remorse; sorry)

Ifáhex 13

Irosun — Ancestral Blood, Lineage, the Red Path

Irosun is the fifth Olódù, the Odù of ẹ̀jẹ̀ (blood), ìdílé (lineage), and hereditary obligation. Its signature substance is osun (cam-wood powder), the red pigment rubbed on the opón Ifá and on the bodies of initiates, marking the boundary between the living and the àwọn ọmọ ọ̀run (children of heaven) who came before. The ese Ifá of Irosun, as documented by Bascom, teach that each person's àtúnwá (cycle of reincarnation) flows through a specific bloodline, and that neglecting one's obligations to the Egúngún (ancestors) severs the channel through which hereditary ashé descends. Irosun insists that individual identity is inseparable from the extended ìdílé.

Zoroastrianismhex 13

Mithra — Covenant, Light, Guardian of Contracts

Mithra (Avestan: Mithra, literally 'covenant' or 'contract') is the great yazata of oaths, alliances, and the light that makes truth visible, celebrated at length in the Mihr Yasht (Yasht 10), one of the longest and most vivid hymns in the Avesta. He rides in a chariot drawn by white horses, possesses 'ten thousand eyes and ten thousand ears,' and surveys all agreements kept or broken across the seven karshvars (regions) of the earth. Mithra is not the sun itself but the all-seeing light that precedes dawn and persists after sunset — the Mihr Yasht describes him as the first yazata to crest Mount Hara before the immortal sun. At the Chinvat Bridge, Mithra serves alongside Rashnu and Sraosha as one of the three judges of the dead, enforcing the covenants each soul made in life.

Elder Futharkhex 13

Mannaz (ᛗ) — Human, Self, Social Bond

Mannaz (ᛗ), twentieth rune and fourth of Tyr's ætt, is the rune of maðr — the human being as social creature, defined by kinship and mutual obligation. The Old Icelandic Rune Poem says: 'Maðr er manns gaman' — man is the joy of man, yet also an augmentation of the earth (the grave awaits). The stave-form of Mannaz shows two figures leaning into each other — the fundamental unit is not the individual but the pair, the bond, the community. In the Völuspá, the first humans (Askr and Embla) receive their gifts (önd, óðr, lá) from three gods acting together; humanity itself is born of collaboration among the Æsir.

I-Chinghex 13

Heaven (☰) — Creative

One of the eight fundamental trigrams. Heaven (☰) represents Creative — the initiating, strong, active force. Three unbroken yang lines symbolize pure creative power, the sky, the father, and untiring forward motion.

I-Chinghex 13

Fire (☲) — Clinging

One of the eight fundamental trigrams. Fire (☲) represents Clinging — clarity, illumination, and dependence on fuel. A yin line held between two yang lines, the second daughter, the light that reveals by attaching to what it illuminates.