Within the depth-psychology corpus, ‘Receptive’ operates most powerfully as one pole of a fundamental cosmic dyad, rooted in the second hexagram of the I Ching (K’un) and standing in indispensable complementarity to the Creative (Ch’ien). Wilhelm’s authoritative rendering establishes the Receptive not as passive vacancy but as active, devoted, and strong — symbolized by the mare coursing over the earth rather than the dragon soaring through heaven. The central tension the corpus traces is whether the Receptive can be understood as genuinely co-equal with the Creative, or whether its dignity lies precisely in subordination: McGilchrist, citing the I Ching directly, insists that the Receptive becomes ‘evil’ only when it ‘tries to stand as an equal side by side with the Creative,’ framing receptivity as a structural necessity rather than an ethical deficiency. Wilhelm’s commentaries elaborate a Receptive that ‘embraces everything,’ brings things to maturity through devoted perseverance, and is identified with the yin principle, the earth, the seasons of summer and autumn, and the feminine cosmic force. Jodorowsky’s Tarot hermeneutics extend the concept into symbolic spatial grammar, locating receptive forces on the left-hand side of card imagery. Across these traditions, the Receptive names not passivity but a mode of transformative containing — a generative stillness that is the necessary counterpart to every creative impulse.