Richu (日出) and Eryue (二月)
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Eryue, 日出 is the second lunar month and goes with the large intestine. This is the month that the material world is being born. The sun has walked over the seasonal horizon and has started to invigorate the world with its power.
Just like Hexagram 34 illustrates, Heaven pushes its energy into the world and it begins to shake. The 10,000 things all begin pushing up like little white worms. At this point, everything looks the same. When the large intestine becomes stuck in it’s own realm, it has a tendency to want everything to look the same, which leads to a dictatorship like quality. The Industrial Revolution is all about producing items that are exactly the same and has everything to do with the large intestine.
Richu, is the double-hour that denotes the time from 5-7 am. This time was once denoted by the earthly branch, Mao 卯which is given, in the Huainanzi, as an auspicious time for dividing. This is the time that the night and day are divided and the sun emerges over the horizon. In relationship to this, the large intestine is in charge of dividing the nutrient rich fluids in the bowels from the unuseable portions and then excreting them, further again, dividing them from the body.
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