Five Phase Correspondences

The lungs, manifesting the metal principle, are a female organ located above the diaphragm. The liver, manifesting the wood principle, is a male organ located beneath the diaphragm. The heart, manifesting the fire principle, is the major yang organ

This passage presents the Five Phase schema in its most direct psychosomatic application, correlating each of the five phases with a specific internal organ, gendered polarity, and bodily location as the basis for Hakuin's meditative medicine.

Hakuin Ekaku, Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin, 1999thesis

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The Frve Transformative Moments… combined the other systems of SEE ance which had evolved with a cycle of five processes or Transformative Moments, the WU HSING. These tive processes are not substances, but stages of transformation. They are translated as adjectives: Woody, Fiery, Earthy, Metallic, Streaming.

Ritsema and Karcher define the wuxing as dynamic transformative stages rather than elemental substances, situating the Five Phase schema within the Han Dynasty systematization of the I Ching's correlative cosmology.

Rudolf Ritsema, Stephen Karcher, I Ching: The Classic Chinese Oracle of Change, 1994thesis

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The yin and yang hemicycles were then elaborated around a central axis or Pivot of Equalization by articulating each of them into three analogous phases: The Pivoting Phase is the first move out of the center.

This passage describes the phase-cycle logic embedded in the I Ching's line typology, providing the structural framework within which Five Phase Correspondences operate as temporal and qualitative articulations of yin-yang alternation.

Rudolf Ritsema, Stephen Karcher, I Ching: The Classic Chinese Oracle of Change, 1994supporting

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the interplay of Yin and Yang… Seeing things as a whole in this way enabled the Chinese to look at certain patterns of events in an entirely different way from that of modern science

Clarke contextualizes Jung's engagement with Chinese correlative thought — including its phase-based patterning — as a methodological counterpoint to Western causal science, linking the Five Phase framework to synchronicity.

Clarke, J. J., Jung and Eastern Thought: A Dialogue with the Orient, 1994supporting

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the symbolism of these mirrors relates to the ritual duties of the emperor serving as the harmonizing pivotal figure of the realms of heaven, earth, and man

Campbell's analysis of Han Dynasty mirror symbolism, with its four-directional animals and cosmic quarters, reflects the broader correlative system of which Five Phase Correspondences form the temporal-processual dimension.

Campbell, Joseph, The Mythic Image, 1974supporting

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the lower tanden, the 'elixir field' or 'cinnabar field,' also called the kikai tanden, 'the ocean of ki-energy,' the center of breathing or center of strength, located slightly below the navel

Hakuin's inner-alchemical geography of the body presupposes the Five Phase organ network as its energetic substrate, locating the cultivation of qi within the same cosmological framework that organizes phase correspondences.

Hakuin Ekaku, Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin, 1999supporting

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The twelve waxing and waning hexagrams… were combined specifically with the twelve earthly branches… and through them with the twelve months and the four seasons.

Kohn's account of inner-alchemical calendrical systems describes the integration of cyclical temporal schemas that run parallel to Five Phase temporal correspondences, situating the latter within a broader Daoist correlative cosmology.

Kohn, Livia, Daoism Handbook, 2000aside

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Since the book presents a complete image of heaven and earth, a microcosm of all possible relationships, it enables us to calculate the movements in every situation to which these reproductions apply.

Wilhelm's framing of the I Ching as a total correlative microcosm provides the cosmological warrant within which Five Phase Correspondences function as one systematic layer of the book's comprehensive analogical architecture.

Wilhelm, Richard, The I Ching or Book of Changes, 1950aside

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