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2007:03:10

Usurpation

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That's the Mawangdui translation for the name of the hexagram. The Balkin calls this "Joy", which is closer to what I would expect, what with the doubling of the "Tui" trigram, sometimes called, "The Joyous."

The outer and the inner are in harmony, are aligned the same. There is congruence here of above and below. Now is a time to reflect deeply on the nature of the trigram, "Tui," the Lake or Marsh, the Joyous, the youngest daughter. Doubled trigrams are also a good opportunity to introduce nuclear trigrams. Taking, from the bottom, lines 2-4 we get the trigram of Li, the clinging, fire. Taking lines 3-5 we get Xun, wind, wood. All of the trigrams involved in this are "daughters" in the Confucian understanding of things. So this is a female, receptive, but not prim ally so, hexagram.

What does Balkin have to say?

...take a different approach. If you want to find joy in the outside world, you must first learn to find some joy in your own heart.

Sound advice at any time; on target all the more anytime this hexagram results from our casting.

Soon it will change.

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