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The pentagram is also used in Traditional Chinese Medicine, where the points refer to fire, earth, metal, water and wood. The outer circle stands for generation. and yang. The inner circle (the rim of the yin yang) stands for preservation and yin. The tai Chi, or yin yang, itself is a Taoist symbol which stands for the union and mutuality of apparent opposites. The Chinese elements also refer to major organs of the body, the animals, climate, hours of the day, sounds, I Ching trigrams and many other correspondences. |
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