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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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