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Breakthrough

HEXAGRAM 43 · GUÀI

ABOVE☱兌the Lake

BELOW☰乾Heaven

THE JUDGEMENT

Breakthrough. Resoluteness. The matter must be made known at the court of the king. It must be announced truthfully — with danger. One’s own city must be notified. It does not further to resort to arms. It furthers to undertake something.

THE IMAGE

The lake has risen up to heaven: the image of Breakthrough. Thus the noble one dispenses riches downward, and refrains from resting on his virtue.

THE LINES

Nine at the beginningPower in the advancing toes: to go without being equal to it is a blame.

Nine in the second placeA cry of alarm: arms at evening and at night. Fear nothing.

Nine in the third placePower in the cheekbones: misfortune. The noble one is firmly resolved: he walks alone, is caught in the rain, is bespattered, and people murmur against him. No blame.

Nine in the fourth placeNo skin on the thighs, and walking comes hard. If one let oneself be led like a sheep, remorse would vanish: but the words are heard and not believed.

Nine in the fifth placeWith weeds, firm resolution is needed. Walking in the middle remains without blame.

Six at the topNo cry: in the end comes misfortune.

KEYWORDS

breakthroughresolutiondeterminationtruthdecision