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Detumesence. The work is done, the goal achieved, the great river crossed. Ji Ji is that moment just after accomplishment when all is perfectly in place. There's nowhere to go from here but down.
Water is the external face of the hexagram, the watery trigram of the gorge or abyss or ravine. Fire is the internal face. Water over a fire is a sign of civilization, of boiling, cooking, even steam engines in days and places far from the discovery of the principles of the I Ching.
This is one of sixteen hexagrams composed of complements. Think about it, fully one fourth of the I Ching is a study of perfect complements. The most memorable, for their clarity, are the two involving three solid lines above or below three broken lines. But here we have the same basic dynamic as Tai (Peace) (Hexagram 11 in the traditional arrangement), two complementary trigrams. Here we are again balancing forces easily mistaken for antagonists.
But there are no antagonists absent the human view. Fire and water combine, sometimes one consuming the other, sometimes not. The Balkin text talks of this hexagram as being a time after fruition, when follow through and initial measures for the next cycle are the order of the day. The Balkin text also talks of this being the last moment before perfection decays. But perfection is a strictly human view, and again, one of the views this exercise attempts to dispense with. This is one point on a cycle, with forces balanced. The wise person heeds the forces of the moment, neither rejoicing at the completion of the task just ended nor dismay at the inevitability of that task's undoing in time. This moment is just as it is. Soon it will change.
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Obstruction. The outer face of the trigram is the abyss, water. The inner is the mountain, stillness. The reading talks of obstacles and the wisdom of acting accordingly, not wasting one's strength and energy fighting what cannot be fought.
But there is more than simple obstacle or obstruction. From the Wilhelm/Baynes:
An obstruction that lasts only for a time is useful for self-development...the superior man seeks the error withing...the external obstacle becomes for him an occasion for inner enrichment and education.
Soon it will change.
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