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◈ Primary hexagram: 44—Adapting to circumstances.

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Name from “Language of the Lines”

Adapting to circumstances.

Lines

Image created from the lines

Here the life force is manifesting actively (line 1) and we are not feeling it, not involved in it, not recognizing what it is (lines 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 are all yang). This unawareness is likely to lead us into misreading our situation.

Image created from the trigrams

The only trigram with any activity is that for the emerging life force, Sun, and we do not respond to this circumstance which comes to us in a rather rigid and formed shape. We cannot influence it because it has no changeability and we may not recognize its strength because of its gentleness. We need to remain alert and witness our desires rather than trying to fulfill them.

The Chinese Oracle

> Sudden meeting.

> The woman is powerful.

> Do not marry.

Comments

The meeting is sudden because we are very unaware in this tao, like someone who is very short-sighted and suddenly recognizes something at close range. Feeling (the woman) is powerful and this feeling is emotional feeling that we have stored and now seeks activity, so it is not born out of our present circumstances but is triggered by them. It is useful to allow such feeling but useless to wed ourselves to it.

Manifestations

The pattern

The powerfully mature

has its activity.

Without being influenced

has influence.

For humans

He does not try to change

what is so formed,

but meeting it

he is so drawn

he must himself change.

In nature

The flow of oceans

does not yield to our swimming.

The place of planets

does not shift for our desire.

In forms we make

All forms have archetypes

they tend towards,

yet the archetype has no form.

Moving lines

Line 1 goes yang — life force shows less change

Here the silence of identity (lines 4, 5, and 6 are yang) ignores the activity of the life force and it ceases to have influence.

> The wheel is held by a metal brake.

> Continuance in the way brings good fortune.

> A lean pig leaps about.

The brake is applied; there is nothing we can do about it but follow our circumstances. Any attempt to get out of our circumstances will prove unfortunate so we need simply to experience where we are. A lean pig is an underfed pig and when we are under-stimulated we “leap about” to cause activity.

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Line 2 goes yin — intuitive feeling more active

Feeling is our link between the undefined inner and manifest outer; here in this line new activity of feeling is occurring although identity is taking no notice.

> There are fish in the tank.

> It does not benefit the guests.

> No error.

Our present identifications (the guests) are not noticing the nourishment available, but this cannot be error, it is just circumstance.

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Line 3 goes yin — outer world changes more

In this tao we do not have a true picture of our circumstances and in this line we act out in circumstances of which we are ignorant.

> No skin on his thighs.

> He walks with difficulty.

> Keeping alert he makes no error.

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Line 4 goes yin — accepting the outer state more

If our increased involvement is with a sense of outer peace all is well, but this is likely to be a search for outer activity and if it is we will search and find none.

> No fish in the tank.

> Misfortune.

The tank which has or has not fish in it is our personal inner being and the fish are our personal identifications in this. Here there are no fish, the process of identifying is inactive in this tao, so if we expect something we are disappointed.

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Line 5 goes yin — more awareness of intuition

Our intuition about our circumstances as shown by line 2 is inactive; by accepting this lack of interpretive feeling, we allow life to happen to us.

> A melon wrapped in leaves is hidden.

> Something falls from heaven.

The melons, the gourd family of fruits, have a multitude of seeds in the fruit casing, many possibilities. These possibilities are hidden within the fruit, the fruit is hidden in the leaves, it appears that nothing is there; then suddenly from this nothing (from heaven) there is a happening. This describes how life is when we do not anticipate it.

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Line 6 goes yin — our inner being accepts more

By accepting the energy of this tao which flows through emotional channels there is a forcing of their recognition.

> He approaches with his horns.

> Regret but no error.

The way emotion forces its way into recognition is often uncomfortable and causes regret, but it is necessary for it to be expressed so this is not an error.

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