[Manymoons]

Juxtaposezen

I have never heard a stupid question. only stupid answers. Some of those answers have been my own.
I relate to your confusion and also appreciate your need for substance and specifics. I will try to answer as best as I am able in this limited format and within the limits of my own ability to communicate. If this particular post is insufficient, do please continue to ask questions!

Yin/yang can be viewed as an algebraic formula to describe how things relate and interact with each other. It is a relative thing. Those things that congeal and integrate would be of a yangizing nature while those that disperse and disintegrate would be of a yinizing nature. Yin/yang are always present- together.
The question is to discern which is the more dominate--yin or yang. The greatest yin creates the greatest yang. The sun for example is very dense and hot ( yang) and expandingly radiates (yin).
The moon is also dense but less so than the sun and does not radiate much at all. The moon is therefor much less yang than the sun, but has its own amount of yang as it does reflect the sun.
There is no single way to identify yin/yang natures. there are basic attributes of yin/yang that are a starting point such as; -expansion/contraction - cold/hot - light/heavy - absorbing/radiating - receding/advancing - female/male,etc.
For the purpose of eating one must use ones self as a point of reference, --a body and soul--integrated and functioning together as one. This would be the idea perfect balance (most yang condition when that body and soul are integrated). The the degree that the body and soul are separated and less integrated, would be a more yin condition. The body will not remain "healed" if the soul is not also "healed". I have considered the possibility that jealousy and cancer are the same disease, one manifest in the body the other in the soul.

Watermelon and cantaloupe are both on the yin side because they are vegetal-fruit. I would consider watermelon more yang, of the two, because the water in them is less yin than the high concentration of sugar in a cantaloupe. They are both on the yin side compared to the animal side (yang) because they impose a less aggressive nature (in part) when eaten.
The grains are the most neutral yin/yang for a human being because they impose no great yin/yang that over powers the intrinsic yin/yang of a person. This can be considered to be a person's most yang condition -- body and soul integrated. The body and soul integrated is the yin/yang that is us--who we are. When we eat extremes of yin/yang were supersede and suppress our own yin/yang. To be whole we most contain our own yin/yang--the grains allow this the most. All people's balances are not the same and we each have assets and deficiencies of yin/yang. Not many people can eat only grains, they are not strong in their own fullest yin/yang-mother/father-body/soul.
Excessive yin or yang when eaten are both yinizing to a person because they disintegrate the unity of the body/soul union.

I hope this helps. If not keep asking. Soon or later we will hit something.
We are both learning!

Manymoons