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The traditional title of this hexagram is, "The Perponderance of the Great."
The lake over the wind, the youngest daughter facing out to the world, the eldest facing in to the family, and a pattern which begs to draw attention from the primary trigrams and re-visit the notion of nuclear trigram, which in this case are both Ch'ien, the manifest male yang energy.
The Wilhelm/Baynes says, "The hexagram represents a beam that is thick and heavy in the middle but too weak at the ends. This is a condition that cannot last..."
Again the image speaks more directly to the trigrams, suggesting that Sun, in it's guise as tree, rather than wind, is just as happy standing alone while Tui, in her guise as the Joyous, combine well such that a person caught in such times as when the lake floods higher than the tree tops need not fear:
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Thus the superior man, when he stands alone,
Is unconcerned,
And if he has to renounce the world,
He is undaunted.
Thinking a moment about how this arises from the previous. Two lines have reversed as we move from Skin Shedding to Sagging Roof Beam, but that is outer manifestation of a simple numerical increment of one, the pattern by which we currently explore the hexagrams. Puppy Love is 28th in the sequence of binary numbers in which the all-open-lines of K'un represent binary number zero and the all-full-lines of Ch'ien represent binary number 63. Skin Shedding is 29th of that sequence, and the present hexagram is 30th of that sequence. But the shift from Puppy Love to Skin Shedding was the reversal of the single line at the bottom, whereas the shift from Skin Shedding to Sagging Roof Beam, although still a single binary increment, results in the reversal of two lines. I had not given this phenomenon any thought previously, that simple numerical increment can invoke reversal of more than one line. This certainly speaks to a disjoint between the methods of representation, which is something dear to the heart of Semantic Restructuring.
Meanwhile, the image is easy enough to see on my bookshelves, overloaded with texts. The heavy books are the solid lines, the little metal pins going into weak particle board are the open lines. One day the pins or the sagging board itself will give unless I take action first to lighten the load or strengthen the support. Recognize limits, respect boundaries, understand that which holds back the thresh.
Soon it will change.
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The Wilhelm/Baynes calls it "Ko / Revolution (Molting)". I've seen this one a time or two and pretty much cut to the chase and arrived at the title I've chosen. From memory it's not entirely unlike the Death card in the Tarot, not about dying so much as about change, whether of season or life cycle stage such as moving from egg to larva to moth or a bird's molting. Let go that which is to be let go, especially that which is only the dead surface detritus. Be not afraid that it looks like dying. Care not that others finding the skin you leave behind might mistake it for a monster or even your corpse. Shed it, get out of it, before it becomes your funeral shroud.
The traditional reading includes, from the Wilhelm/Baynes, observation that the trigrams involved are water above fire, each holding potential disaster and even oblivion for the other. The judgment includes:
Revolution. On your own day
You are believed.
Supreme success,
Furthering through perseverance.
Remorse disappears.
Note how this arises from the simple reversal of the lowest line of the previous hexagram. By the reversal of this lowest line infatuation becomes seemingly abrupt and profound change. But note also that the change from egg to larva to moth or housefly or Monarch butterfly isn't really change at all. Only the surface appearance has changed, and that change is an inherent and integral part of the the egg and the larva and the Monarch. It is only our separateness from that organism and our inability to understand except in terms of our experiences which brings the sense of wonder or fear.
Paraphrasing the reading,
"Enlighten the people in times of revolution, to prevent excesses."
The image contrasts from the judgment by being less focused on Confucian preoccupations with social order, instead focusing on the metaphors easily read from the trigrams themselves. Forget not that fire below water heats your tea.
Soon it will change.
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