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Hexagram 58, Opening

Key Questions

How can you fully enjoy the moment?
What are you bringing to expression?
What if you communicated and exchanged more freely?

Oracle

'Opening, creating success.
Constancy bears fruit.'

The early Chinese character for 'Opening' shows someone with words rising from their mouth: they seem to be dancing and singing. It means joyful and outgoing expression that opens up communication.

Opening brings people together and begins a lively creative process of sharing and exchange. It liberates human energies, motivates people to overcome hardship and encourages perseverance.

Image

'Lakes joined together: Opening.
A noble one joins with friends to speak and practise together.'

Sequence

Opening follows from Hexagram 57, Subtly Penetrating:
'Entering in and then rejoicing, and so Opening follows.'

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Hexagram 47, Confined

Key Questions

What if you could only rely on yourself?
Who are you, when you are alone?

Oracle

'Confined, creating success.
Constancy of a great person, good fortune.
Not a mistake.
There are words, not trusted.'

The Chinese character for 'Confined' or 'oppressed' shows a tree completely encircled by walls: an image of entrapment and isolation. You are cut off, and cannot reach out to others. The great person finds good fortune in constancy to an inner ideal. This is the supreme test of character: whether you can hold to your purpose when there is no encouragement, no confirmation from outside, but only your own inner resources. The lack of outward signs of progress does not mean that you are wrong, or that the world is wrong. Rather than resenting the walls, concentrate on the life and growth within them.

Do not place too much value on words: they will not provide you with a way out – neither conversation, nor argument, nor your own reasoning and theorizing. Words alone are only circulating ideas; they lack the real, personal connection that would make them trustworthy.

Image

'Lake without water: Confined.
A noble one carries out the mandate, fulfils her aspiration.'

Sequence

Being Confined follows from Hexagram 46, Pushing Upward:
'Pushing upward and not reaching an end is naturally Confining.'

Pair

Confined forms a pair with Hexagram 48, the Well:
'The Well is wholly connected; Confined means meeting together.'

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