This chapter felt more allusive than the earlier ones. It kind of reminds me of sword manuals where the writer assumes the reader already has had F2F training and is “pointing” instead of “explaining”.
I looked up “the nine heavens” and it didn’t help much. Maybe the phrase changed meaning over time? It seems to have been connected to the planets after Ptolemy’s model reached China, but I don’t know if Sunzi wrote before or after that. If after, I wondered if maybe were some sort of planets/pantheon/astrology linkages, that would mean something to someone who caught more references than I do?
I see that The Art Of War has 13 chapters. If you had done them all, I’d have probably binged the whole sequence this evening :-)
This chapter felt more allusive than the earlier ones. It kind of reminds me of sword manuals where the writer assumes the reader already has had F2F training and is “pointing” instead of “explaining”.
I looked up “the nine heavens” and it didn’t help much. Maybe the phrase changed meaning over time? It seems to have been connected to the planets after Ptolemy’s model reached China, but I don’t know if Sunzi wrote before or after that. If after, I wondered if maybe were some sort of planets/pantheon/astrology linkages, that would mean something to someone who caught more references than I do?
I see that The Art Of War has 13 chapters. If you had done them all, I’d have probably binged the whole sequence this evening :-)