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HEXAGRAM 30 – Li – THE CLINGING, FIRE

Above    LI    THE CLINGING, FIRE

Below    LI    THE CLINGING, FIRE

This hexagram is another double sign.

The trigram Li means

• ¨to cling to something,”
  
• “to be conditioned,
  
• to depend or rest on something,” and also
  
• “brightness”.
  

A dark line clings to two light lines,

• one above and
  
• one below –
  

the image of an empty space between two strong lines,

whereby the two strong lines are made bright.

The trigram represents the middle daughter.

The Creative has incorporated the central line of the Receptive, and thus

Li develops.

As an image, it is fire.

Fire

• has no definite form but
  
• clings to the burning object and thus
  

is bright.

As water pours down from heaven,

so fire flames up from the earth.

• While K’an means the soul shut within the body,
  
• Li stands for nature in its radiance.
  

THE JUDGMENT

THE CLINGING.

Perseverance furthers.

It brings success.

Care of the cow brings good fortune.

What is dark clings

• to what is light and so
  
• enhances the brightness of the latter.
  

A luminous thing giving out light

must have within itself something that perseveres; otherwise

it will in time burn itself out.

Everything that

gives light

is dependent on something to which it clings,

in order that it may continue to shine.

Thus

• sun and moon cling to heaven, and
  
• grain, grass, and trees cling to the earth.
  

So too

the twofold clarity of the dedicated man

• clings to what is right and thereby
  
• can shape the world.
  

Human life on earth is conditioned and unfree, and,

when man

• recognizes this limitation and
  
• makes himself dependent upon the harmonious and beneficent forces of the cosmos,
  

he achieves success.

The cow is the symbol of extreme docility.

By cultivating in himself an attitude of

• compliance and
  
• voluntary dependence,
  

man

• acquires clarity without sharpness and
  
• finds his place in the world. 1
  

THE IMAGE

That which is bright rises twice: The image of FIRE.

Thus the great man, by perpetuating this brightness,

Illumines the four quarters of the world.

Each of the two trigrams represents the sun in the course of a day.

The two together represent the repeated movement of the sun,

the function of light with respect to time.

The great man continues the work of nature in the human world.

Through the clarity of his nature

he causes the light

• to spread farther and farther and
  
• to penetrate the nature of man ever more deeply.
  

THE LINES

Nine at the beginning means:

The footprints run crisscross.

If one is seriously intent, no blame.

It is early morning and work begins.

The mind has been closed to the outside world in sleep;

now its connections with the world begin again.

The traces of one’s impressions run crisscross.

Activity and haste prevail.

It is important then

• to preserve inner composure and
  
• not to allow oneself to be swept along by the bustle of life.
  

If

• one is serious and composed,
  
• he can acquire the clarity of mind needed for
  
  • coming to terms with the innumerable impressions that pour in.
    
• It is precisely at the beginning that serious concentration is important,
  
  • because the beginning holds the seed of all that is to follow.
    

0 Six in the second place means:

Yellow light.

Supreme good fortune.

Midday has come;

the sun shines with a yellow light.

• Yellow is the color of measure and mean.
  
• Yellow light is therefore a symbol of the highest culture and art,
  
  • whose consummate harmony consists in holding to the mean.
    

0 Six in the fifth place means:

Tears in floods,

• sighing and
  
• lamenting.
  

Good fortune.

Here the zenith of life has been reached.

Were there no warning,

one would at this point consume oneself like a flame.

Instead,

understanding the vanity of all things,

one may

• put aside both hope and fear, and
  
• sigh and lament:
  

if one is intent on retaining his clarity of mind,

good fortune will come from this grief.

For here we are dealing

• not with a passing mood, as in the nine in the third place,
  
• but with a real change of heart.
  

MOVING HEXAGRAM

HEXAGRAM 44 – Kou – Coming to Meet

Above    CH’IEN    THE CREATIVE, HEAVEN

Below    SUN    THE GENTLE, WIND

This hexagram indicates a situation in which the principle of darkness,

after having been eliminated,

furtively and unexpectedly obtrudes again from within and below.

Of its own accord the female principle comes to meet the male.

• It is an unfavorable and dangerous situation, and
  
• we must understand and promptly prevent the possible consequences.
  

The hexagram is linked with the fifth month [June-July],

because at the summer solstice

the principle of darkness gradually becomes ascendant again.

THE JUDGMENT

COMING TO MEET.

The maiden is powerful.

One should not marry such a maiden.

The rise of the inferior element is pictured here in the image of

a bold girl who

• lightly surrenders herself and
  
• thus seizes power.
  

This would not be possible if the strong and light-giving element had not in turn come halfway.

• The inferior thing seems so harmless and inviting that
  
  • a man delights in it;
    
• it looks so small and weak that
  
  • he imagines he may dally with it and come to no harm.
    

The inferior man rises only because the superior man

• does not regard him as dangerous and so
  
• lends him power.
  

If

• he were resisted from the first,
  
• he could never gain influence.
  

The time of COMING TO MEET is important in still another way.

Although as a general rule the weak should not come to meet the strong,

there are times when this has great significance.

• When heaven and earth come to meet each other, all creatures prosper;
  
• when a prince and his official come to meet each other, the world is put in order.
  

It is necessary for elements predestined to be joined and mutually dependent

to come to meet one another halfway.

But the coming together must be free of dishonest ulterior motives,

otherwise harm will result.

THE IMAGE

Under heaven, wind: The image Of COMING TO MEET.

Thus does the prince act when

• disseminating his commands And
  
• proclaiming them to the four quarters of heaven.
  

The situation here resembles that in hexagram 20, Kuan, CONTEMPLATION (VIEW).

• In the latter the wind blows over the earth,
  
• here it blows under heaven;
  

in both cases it goes everywhere.

There the wind

• is on the earth and
  
• symbolizes the ruler taking note of the conditions in his kingdom;
  

here the wind

• blows from above and
  
• symbolizes the influence exercised by the ruler through his commands.
  

• Heaven is far from the things of earth, but
  
  • it sets them in motion by means of the wind.
    
• The ruler is far from his people, but
  
  • he sets them in motion by means of his commands and decrees.
    

 

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