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From the Mawangdui: To be upright is inauspicious; there is no place beneficial.
This certainly seems harsh. It is softened, somewhat in the traditional readings, under the heading, "The Marrying Maiden." (The Mawangdui reads, "Returning Maiden.") In the Wilhelm/Baynes the focus is on the metaphorical family relations ascribed to the trigrams, letting us view this hexagram as the marriage of the eldest son with the youngest daughter. This is viewed as subjugation, from a cultural context which allows multiple wives a youngest daughter is less likely to be chief wife, more likely to be subordinate wife. So the traditional readings are all about knowing one's place, not rocking the boat, keeping a low profile, practicing quiet rightness rather than boisterous righteousness.
But the relevance of the traditional filtering the energy images through the lens of the extended family structures of ancient China becomes less and less; so too for the ruler/official metaphors of feudal times. What then of the elemental or energetic? We have ShockQuakeThunderTheArousing above, facing the outer world; below, facing inward we have the gentle lake or marsh. Certainly thunder can herald flooding rains which over flow the lake boundaries or cause the marsh to flood; this then seems close enough to the traditional reading and yet just enough removed into the realm of symbology to be apt for all times.
As the lake or marsh are below the thunder and possibly at its mercy,
so too there are times when circumstances do not leave us any great
power or status or choice. We must continue being what we are, and we
must weather the consequences of what we do with our outward natures,
even if that weathering means a time of the marsh becoming a fetid
swamp, or a lake rising above it's boundaries and destroying nearby
crops. Sometimes such things happen, but the enlightened one goes about
her business attending to what must be attended to without rancor or
remorse for what the weather has brought. Soon it will change.
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