☲ Blaze

☲ Blaze initiates change then sustains outward engagement, escalating into change.

Identity: Emerging actor

Phase Affinity:

Fire Phase (nourish or burst)

Trigram Story: Push then emerge in a burst. Engages outwardly and then expands rapidly. Commitment plus pursuit.

Manifestations

Objects: Bonfire, candles

Body: Energy to move

Thoughts & Emotions: Chasing clarity. Engage and focus.

Conflict management: Listen and reposition yourself.

Example infusions into objects:

Example removals from objects:

Example infusions into living bodies:

Example removals from living bodies:

As an emerging trigram,

☲ Blaze can plant seeds of

☲ Blaze aspects that can take root. Example seeds:

☲ Blaze casters cannot remove aspects from a mind.

Push back and follows path of the intruder to Blaze into intruder's mind.

Wood story: TODO

Fire story: Push then emerge in a burst. Engages outwardly and then expands rapidly. Commitment plus pursuit.

Earth story: TODO

Metal story: Push then emerge to separate. Ignite an emergence by cutting boundaries, forcing differentiation as the rise happens.

Water story: TODO

Meaning: Clarity

Qi quality: Radiate, attract, enliven, inspire, illuminate, clarity, logical reasoning

Qi in nature: Blaze

Direction: South

Ritual tool: Sword

Land forms: Deserts, arid plains. Fertile lands from volcanic ash.

Sound: Fast tempo and higher-pitched

Personality traits: Active, ambitious, assertive, extroverted, quick to agitate, intelligent, quick learner

Immortal association: Lu dong Bin, The Philosopher