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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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