YIN AND YANG IN THE PERSON

When applied to the personality, yin is gentle, quiet and magnetic while yang is fiery, active and intense. At birth, everyone is either yin or yang in their physical constitution. It is sometimes possible to determine which one you are by studying the features of your face with the aid of a mirror.

PHYSICAL FEATURES
The yin person has features that tend to be well-spaced and set apart from an imaginary lije that bsects the head from chin to forehead. Thus their features may include a cleft at the end of the nose, a gap in the front teeth, eyes well set apart ,  a large mouth with full lips, Mild climates tend to generate this type of character.

Not unexpectedly, the yang person has facial features which tend to be concentrated nearer to the imaginary center line. The eyes tend therefore to be closer set, the nose small and flat and the lower jaw is square set. This type of person is thought to come from a climatic extremes, including the cold and mountainous area.

ATTRIBUTES

Each type of person can be related to the various attributes and therefore a yin person tends to reveal him or herself through thoughts and a typical occupation would be teaching, writing or research. The yang person uses actions to express him or herself and typical occupations would be sport, business, engineering and the armed service. However, it is perhaps obvious that a yin type may have a yang occupation and vise versa.

When a person considers what will be the ideal surroundings for them, it is necessary to accommodate the physical constitution and the occupation. For the former, a complementary environment is required and that means the opposite is needed; a yang person will need a predominantly yin milieu. The opposite then applies for a yin person. The surroundings should also to be made to match  your job so that if your occupation is yin, there should be a yin area to promote thought. These varying factors can be summarized as follows:

YIN and YANG

Yin and yang are the be all and end all: the cause of life and death. The Chinese equate the earth, or creation with yin and the sky or heaven with yang. Pictorially, yin is represented by a line of two dashes while yang is a continuous line, each derived from the square and circle which in turn represent the earth and heaven, respectively. The origin of this lies with the fact that yin and yang lines were used as ancient oracles. Oracles of ancient times gave a yes or no answer to any question put to them and yes was represented by the yang unbroken, line and yin, no by the broken line.

Yin and yang are inextricably linked because while yin is restful and yang is active, activity invariably ends with rest and likewise rest leads to further activity. The activity of yang ends with inactivity of yin. This is graphically shown in the well known symbol for yin and yang which is often called the T'ai ch'i, something quite different from the system of exercise for which the full name is T'ai chi chu'an. 

Although yin and yang are effectively opposite, together they produce a balance and within each there is some part the other,represented in the symbol by the dot of contrasting color - white in black and black in white. Yin and yang and negative/positive aspects also relate to the individual, the home and his or her occupation. A number of characteristics or properties can be attributed to yin or yang and in turn the physical makeup of a person will be one or the other. The table opposite shoes some typical properties.