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This wooden mahogany-stained double tealight holder is formed in the Yin Yang (taijitu) symbol, depicted here with delicately carved flowers.
Yin Yang (literally “dark light”) is an Ancient Chinese philosophical concept that illustrates how forces can paradoxically be opposites and yet interdependent complements to each other. In Chinese cosmology, the universe created itself out of a primary chaos (Qi/Chi) that organized into the cyclic balance of Yin and Yang. That dynamic continues to play out, both physically and spiritually, in the world that we inhabit.
It is illustrated by the symbol of two swirling halves of a circle, one black (Yin) and one white (Yang). Yin is the receptive and Yang the active principle, a metaphor that can be extended to various dualities such as negative/positive, female/male, north/south, winter/summer, and disorder/order. Life, then, can be seen as a dynamic in which the paradox of simultaneous unity and duality is continually expressed and rebalanced, and in which the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
This double tealight holder would make a beautiful addition to your home, meditation space, or altar to remind yourself of the unique combination of seemingly contradictory elements that combined to create you, and the eternal desire for balance between the two.