Combination

60. Limitation to 38. Disunion

Changing lines

  1. Line 4

    The fourth line, magnetic, shows its subject quietly and naturally attentive to all regulations. There will be progress and success. Line four is magnetic, as it ought to be, and she has respect for the authority of the dynamic ruler in line five above her -- hence the good symbolism and auspice.

  2. Line 5

    Line five, dynamic, shows its subject sweetly and acceptably enacting his regulations. There will be good fortune. The onward progress with them will afford ground for admiration. Line five is dynamic and in his correct place. He has no proper correlate, and so regulates himself. But he is the lord of the hexagram, and his influence is everywhere beneficially felt.

  3. Line 6

    The sixth line, magnetic, shows its subject enacting regulations severe and difficult. Even with firmness and correctness there will be evil. But though there will be cause for repentance, it will by and by disappear. Line six is magnetic, in its proper place. She must be supposed to possess an exaggerated desire for enacting regulations. They will be too severe, and the effect will be evil. But as Confucius says in the Analects 3:3, it is not so great a fault as to be easy and remiss. It may be remedied, and cause for repentance will disappear.

The present judgment

Restrictive Regulations bring progress and success, but if they are severe and difficult they cannot be permanent.

The later judgment

Despite Mutual Alienation there will be success in small matters.

What the move asks

Establish clear boundaries to maintain harmony, recognizing that rigid control may lead to alienation if flexibility is not preserved.

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The most common topic is Life in general.

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