THE TRIAD -- Part I

One might be tempted to think of the Monad as a zero dimensional point, and the Dyad as a one dimensional line. Such simplifications lose the essence of these structures as it is the physical properties possessed by these grouping of spheres that give them their qualities. Never is this more obvious than in the case of the Triad.

Once the third sphere is added, the movement changes in quality. Now the spheres can only roll inward, towards the hole in their center, or outward from said gap. The motions are labeled involving and evolving.






This motion, into the center and out from the center, is the fundamental quality of the Triad.

In the next animation, we see that this three sphere structure's inner rotational motion is analogous to that of a torus.



If you drop a pebble into a calm pond, you'll create a series of circular waves. What will actually happen is the pebble hits the water and starts an expanding torus of motion.





So the Triad corresponds to the I-ching trigram of Water.

Before we had the trigram for Fire:

Two solid lines sandwiching a broken line.

In this instance we are dealing with the trigram of Water:

The observant readers among you will note that this trigram is the opposite of the trigram for Fire, the opposite in the sense that each broken line is now solid and vice versa.

Every line has two states, solid or broken. The top line is the ruling line for both Water and Fire. I explained in an earlier post that when the top line was solid, it had the quality symbolized by the astrological planet, the Sun, while a broken line indicates that the Moon's power holds sway.

In the next post we'll examine the astrological aspects of the Triad as well the planetary conditions during this stage in the Monadic Progression.