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Yin Yang In Nature
Day and summer are generally Yang: it's hotter, there's more activity, and more light. Night and winter are generally Yin: it's colder, there's more rest, and more darkness.
Yin and yang are not two separate things. They are one thing expressed in two ways, like two ends of one stick or the two sides of a coin. Thus we can say that the 24 hour cycle expresses itself as day and night. This is symbolized as the dark half and light half of the Yin-Yang symbol which is enclosed in a circle.
Yin and Yang become each other. Day belongs to Yang but after reaching its peak at mid-day, the Yin gradually begins to unfold until it is night and, in turn, when Yin reaches its peak at mid-night the Yang gradually unfolds until it is day again. This cycle is true for all opposites. Thus, any phenomenon may belong to either Yin or Yang but it contains the seed of its opposite. This is symbolized as the small black and white dots in the Yin-Yang symbol.
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