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Six at the beginning means:
To spread white rushes underneath.
No blame.
one must take
care to put
rushes underneath it,
so nothing will break.
--Wilhelm
Why would you pad things on the bottom when the roof is about
to come down on them from above? Seems a little excessive to me.
Chris would say something like 'the third line is ruled by Hex 15, which is about leveling out inequalities and extremes and inequities'. But since this is Hex 28, which is all about excess and excessive this and that, things go too far and go beyond the levelling out of 15, and the result is misfortune.
Okay, why the strong contrast with 28.2? 28.2 is really auspicious, and 28.5 is neither here nor there. There's obviously a connection between the two lines, cuz the imagery is so parallel. Second and fifth positions are usually pretty auspicious. What's wrong with yang in the fifth in 28?
Anyway, I'm still confused about the poplar... it's dry in 28.2 but sends forth new shoots... it's withered in 28.5 but puts forth flowers. I think saying that the poplar imagery is separate from the marriage imagery is completely wrong, especially considering that there is no parsing of sentences with full stops in the original Chinese. So my question remains... is the poplar the man or the woman?
That's a good observation. I believe that if gender is needed in interpretation, perhaps it can be discerned by the line's position in the hexagram.
L
I think it's also neutral in 28.2 if you look at the literal Chinese... not "Everything furthers" as Wilhelm translates it, but 旡不利 (wu2 bu4 li4) which is more like "Nothing isn't beneficial." That doesn't sound altogether positive to me.
We are *so* not on the same page with this one. I take wu2 bu4 li4 to mean 'without lack of benefit' - in other words, it's completely beneficial in each and every aspect. I think you should canvas group opinion here on this one.
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