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I'll play. 30.6 - a high point and departure point? We've honoured the presence of confusing signs, recognised the glow of inner light, chosen our perspective on transience, seen with compassion... and now the king's making good use of marching out, executing the chief and not the prisoners. It seems clarity of perception naturally tips over into action in the end. Or perhaps if you spread light far enough, sooner or later you have to engage with darkness.
Aren't squid usually quite damp?
13.6 - this is pure guesswork, but looking at the previous lines we seem to have got dangerously close to an outbreak of war. The outskirts altar was a place for victory offerings, and I wonder (based on no evidence at all) whether it might not also be a good place to solemnise alliances, outside the boundaries of your town. There's enough space out here for both of us. 'No regrets' - maybe quite a lot of relief?
To me lines don't have any sequence (just my view). They talk about different realms. Line 6 is the line of the sage, outside ties and other human affairs.
As for the idea of the sage being associated with Line 6, well yes, sometimes, but not always. I'd say that *if* the sage comes into it, then he/she appears in Line 6. I see no sign of the sage in 45.6, for example.
45.6 claims to be without fault. If you are doing the best you can and being as wise as you can be to be without fault is this not a sign of the sage at work?
Isn't there a difference between 'not being committed' and the transcendence and non-attachment of the sage? Not being committed is a weakness; not being attached is a strength.
when it comes to crowds, being at the top of the heap is not a very enviable position for long.
Hexagrams are like sex...
If the hexagram doesn't reach climax by line 5, line 6 is the climax.
If the hexagram reaches climax by line 5, line 6 is anticlimactic.
53.6 is a climax... or in your nomenclature, a high point.
53 line 6 is enigmatic, does that spiritualize an idea?
Endgame, or highpoint, 51 line 6?
18 6 is what it is because of the emphasis placed on the necessity of getting to work on something, and the potential that can be created by doing so. Line 5 is the place of the ruler, but when someone studies the I Ching, and works on his/her character, there is no end to the places that we can go. Ultimately we go beyond the physical realm of kings and queens, and delve into the spiritual levels. In Taoist I Ching, we reach such a level in the development of our chi, our life force, our inner understanding, that we leave the physical level and are relegated to the realm of the immortals.
Gene
Clarity,
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