Accomplishment. The king approaches the owners of the temple. Favorable ford across the great river. Favorable stamina.

Salvation is needed. The horse is strong. - Happiness.
When crushed, run to your support. - Remorse will disappear.
Shatter your body. - There will be no remorse.
Break up your herd. - Primal happiness. Shatter your hill. (This) is not what the barbarians think.
When crushed, sweat will come out (from) their loud cries. When fragmented, (like) a king, live. - There will be no hula.
When crushed, your blood will be gone. Get out, get out - and there will be no blasphemy.

Name

Huan (Shattering): scattered clouds; break obstacles; dispel illusions, fears, suspicions; clarify things, overcome internal resistance; untie, divide; change and mobilize something frozen; melting ice, flood, rising fog. The hieroglyph depicts water and the sign of expansion. It implies a change in form through expansion or fragmentation.

figurative row

This is the time to clear misunderstandings, dispel illusions, and clear obstacles. Let the light of understanding dispel the darkness of ignorance. Be like a king who builds a majestic temple for the spiritual unification of people and connection with higher powers. Time favors new projects and bold undertakings. Enter the river of life with a meaningful purpose. Spread clarity and understanding. Ancient kings made sacrifices higher powers to clear the path. Disperse the fog, open the way and get ready for great things.

Outer and Inner worlds

The inner flow penetrates the outer world, dissolving barriers and overcoming obstacles.

Removing obstacles contains hidden opportunity sustenance for themselves and others.

Subsequence

You inspire something and then dispel it. Awareness of this allows you to use fragmentation.

Definition

Shattering means breaking through an obstacle.

Image

Symbol

strong wind blows everything in its path.

The wind blows over the water. Fragmentation.

The rulers of antiquity made sacrifices to Heaven for the foundation of temples.

Hexagram lines

First six

Help needed. The horse is strong. Happiness.
You need help. It comes in the form of an invisible force, a helper spirit in the form of a horse, which is symbolized by the lower trigram in this position. The path is open.

Nine second

When shattered, run to your throne.
Repentance will disappear.

Now you need to find your place. If you do this, you will be able to correct past mistakes (repentance will disappear).

Six third

Shatter your body.
There will be no remorse.

Don't identify with your desires, your need for self-expression, or your desire for personal power. Focus only on your goal. You won't regret it.

Six fourth

Break up your herd. Primal happiness.
There will be a hill in the fragmentation.
This is not what the barbarians think.

The difficulty of understanding aphorisms in the fourth position has led to different interpretations. In general, it is generally accepted that by sharing his thoughts and actions, a person finds a dialectical unity in their diversity. For a barbarian (that is, an uncultured person), such things are inaccessible.

Nine fifth

When crushed, sweat comes out from loud screams.
When fragmented, live like a king.
There will be no bullshit.

Here the figurative description of the process of individualization continues. It is important to realize that, despite the external fragmentation, the subject of action (the king) directs the process, maintaining its integrity. As a person, this means that no matter how different things you do, there must be something that ties them together and gives them a touch of your personality.

Top nine

When crushed, your blood will be gone.
Get out. Come out.
And there will be no bullshit.

When resolving the situation, a person sacrifices himself, giving his strength for the benefit of others. All that remains for you is to leave, leaving others the fruits of your labors. Only this can lead to a favorable outcome.

Associative interpretation

1. Temple in the mountains means "to be above worldly affairs."
2. The monk symbolizes a peaceful and pure personality.
3. The man follows the monk. It means "to get away from business, indulging in idleness."
4. The spirit follows the person. It means "to be restrained in one's speech and careful in one's personal conduct."
5. The deity is dressed in golden armor. It means "help from heaven".

Explanation of the hexagram according to Wen-wang.

Scattering brings success. The king enters his temple. A burden to cross the great river and to be persistent.

Guidelines for interpretation

1. This is the March hexagram. It is good in summer and winter and bad in autumn.
2. Huan acts like wind over water. It disperses water, turning it into mist and steam. The same thing happens with our mind. Due to rigidity and selfishness, we become inflexible, inflexibility leads to separation from other people. We need a warm spring breeze to dissolve this inflexibility. When the boat crosses the river, all hands must be united in a common task.
3. Friends invite you to a party in the bosom of nature - "to celebrate the arrival of spring." It sounds silly to you, but when you arrive, the day is so good and everyone is so happy that you yourself begin to feel twice as good.

Explanation of individual yao according to Zhou-gong.

First Yao.
Initial six. He brings help and has the strength of a horse. Luck.

1. Your friends are inspired by a grand idea and project, but when they start to implement it, disagreements and disputes begin. You, too, join the discussions and work tirelessly to correct minor misunderstandings, and as a result, the plan begins to work successfully.
2. You work very hard, as if you were traveling on horseback without rest.
3. Carelessly thrown words cannot be caught up even on four horses.

Second Yao.
Nine second. When dissipated, it rushes to join that which supports it. Disappointment disappears.

1. You find yourself living on your own and unhappy when someone tries to help you. Then you realize that this is just an attack of a bad mood, you go to visit your old friends and you realize that your vision becomes healthy and normal again.
2. When you try to gain an advantage over others, you will be besieged.
3. Everyone loves what belongs to him.

Third Yao.
Six third. He dissipates. There is no disappointment.

1. You are taking on a cause that is so important to you that you forget about your personal desires and preferences and follow only what contributes to the cause. This is how you achieve success.
2. While enjoying life, one should be prepared for possible future dangers.
3. An old withered tree suddenly released new shoots.

Fourth Yao.
Six fourth. His ties to the group are scattered. Supreme luck. In dispersion - accumulation. This is what it's about ordinary people never think.

1. Your interests are starting to take you away from your circle of friends, but that doesn't bother you. Later, you notice that you develop as a person and become more interesting for both old friends and new ones.
2. There is nothing wrong with this.
3. It is like gentle rain after a long drought. You will get what you really need and what you have been deprived of for a very long time.

Nine fifth. Sweat dissipates from his loud cries. The royal life is scattered. There is no guilt.

1. One of your group members comes up with a great project and gets the others involved. The stagnation that you had before is ending.
2. You can't shift the blame to someone else.
3. Don't destroy the bridge by crossing the river. This means that a person should not be neglected after he has taken advantage of him.

Sixth Yao.
Top nine. It scatters blood. Leaving, moving away and leaving - there is no guilt.

1. You and your friends are relaxing in the park and suddenly you see that suspicious persons are approaching you. You point them out to your friends, and while someone calls the police, the rest retreat to safety.
2. It is not smart to focus on the details, forgetting about the main goal.
3. It is possible to provide financial assistance to people in difficult times, but this should not be done if they are constantly without money.

General interpretation according to Y. Shutsky

To understand this hexagram, it is necessary to remember what we have already indicated in the 31st hexagram - that the themes of the first part of the "Book of Changes" and its second part are somewhat different. In the first part we saw the creation of the agent, coming from the cosmic forces. The second part is rather the practical activity of a person in his environment. In addition, the second part outlines the creation of personality, the emergence of the individual. And it is here, after the entire epic of the development of forces, their accumulation, their remelting, their manifestation outside, reintegration in each of the surrounding people, after this difficult path that was outlined in the previous hexagrams, finally comes the hexagram that speaks of individualization, about the manifestation of the fullness of self-consciousness in each individual person. It is called Fragmentation. The fragmentation here indicates the emergence of individuality in the particular. Thus, the one here becomes the singular. The image that the authors of the Book of Changes have chosen to depict this fragmentation deserves our attention. The top trigram here is wind, the bottom one is water. This image indicates that if the water surface, while the wind does not act, seems to us to be a certain unity, then at the first blow of the wind, many separate fragmented spangles appear on it. And every person, every personality is perceived here as something independent. During this process, the development and fulfillment of this development should take place by itself. This process arises because the joy that was the property of a person who has achieved the goal is also extended to all the people around him, and everyone who has taken this joy into himself, realizing it, is aware of himself as experiencing this joy. Thus, the person who has bestowed joy can feel that he has fulfilled everything that his existence obliges him to do. He may feel that he has fulfilled his duty to the people who gave him this existence, to his ancestors. The process of individualization outlined here is an important and serious process, and therefore here it is necessary to take great and responsible actions, in which, of course, it is necessary to maintain complete steadfastness, understood in this case as genuine rightness in thoughts, in actions, in words. In this sense, the text should be understood: Fragmentation. Accomplishment. The king approaches the owners of the temple (the spirits of the ancestors). Favorable ford across the great river. Favorable stamina.

1
The first position characterizes being in oneself, non-manifestation outside; Therefore, the forces of one first position have not yet achieved the necessary individualization and fragmentation. We need outside help here. And it is marked by the Book of Changes. This help must be strong. If the image of a horse is chosen here, then, firstly, because the trigram kan, standing below, in the symbolism of animals refers to a horse, and, secondly, because here help comes even from the second position, which is occupied by a strong line, also symbolizing the horse. Therefore, in the text we read here: In the beginning, a weak feature. Help needed. The horse is strong. Happiness.

2
During the individualization process, the most important thing is to find your own place. It should be precisely its own and durable, what the throne was presented from the point of view of the feudal authors of the Book of Changes. Therefore, in the process of individualization, each person should strive for his throne. We would say that everyone should take their rightful place. If this is done, then mistakes made in the past are smoothed out and repentance will disappear. So the text here says this: Strong trait in second place. When shattered, run to your throne. Repentance will disappear.

3
In the process of fragmentation and individualization greatest danger represents the continuity of this process. When in the process of fragmentation even the individuality itself is exposed to it, i.e. something indivisible, then a favorable outcome cannot occur. A person will be forced to bitterly regret that he did not stop the process of fragmentation in time. However, since the third position, in its very meaning, is a striving outward, a disintegration of the internal, so far in this case a person does not have to repent, because, carrying out further and further disintegration, he acts only in the spirit of the position that he occupies within the given situation. So here in the text we read: Weak trait in third place. Shatter your body. There will be no remorse.

4
The process of fragmentation, individualization can be considered as a two-way process from the other side. If, in a certain sense of the word, this is the fragmentation of a certain whole and thereby the destruction of it as a whole, then, on the other hand, here, instead of many, many arise. Their multitude, in a certain sense of the word, is again a kind of unity, a unity in which they appear as a whole hill. Therefore, if a single "herd" is broken up into separate individuals, then, on the other hand, the collective of these individuals is a big hill. Apparently, the authors of the "Book of Changes" realized that such a thought, essentially dialectical, is difficult to perceive if a person is not culturally developed enough. Recognizing the difficulty of this thought, the text reads: Weak trait in fourth place. Break up your herd. Primal happiness. There will be a hill in the fragmentation. This is not what the barbarians think.

5
The process of individualization, fragmentation comes from a certain center and rushes to the periphery, and separate individuals appear on the periphery. To express this process figuratively, the text here speaks of how individual droplets of sweat appear on the periphery of the skin due to the fact that a person feels heat inside. This process of individuation should be carried around like a loud voice. But in the fifth position, which should be leading, you must put yourself in the center, which is expressed in the language of the "Book of Changes" in the form of a king living in the center. This is necessary because in order to internally resist the process of fragmentation and to stay in it without being fragmented. Only then can the outcome be favorable. In this sense, the text says: Strong feature in fifth place. When crushed, sweat comes out from loud screams. When fragmented, like a king, live. There will be no bullshit.

6
Excessive development of the process of fragmentation, when a person gives himself up in order for independent individuals to arise in the environment, leads to the complete surrender of his forces to the environment. But that's the way it should be. This is where you need to go beyond yourself. In this sacrificial self-giving, it is possible to correct the failure of the sixth position, about which the text says: Above is a strong trait. When crushed, your blood will be gone. Get out. Come out. And there will be no bullshit.

Commentary by A.V. Shvetsa

In the external - Refinement and penetration, in the internal - Immersion and danger. Thinning associated with the appearance of smaller independent objects with an accompanying sense of danger - fragmentation.

Haislip interpretation

The bright sun of success is rising again after a long period of failure. Everything you aspired to will become possible. It may very well be that a long journey awaits you. Try not to spend a lot of money. Your affairs will go well in all respects, and in the near future you will have an unexpected chance to become a leader. Your wish is now being fulfilled. And if you are persistent and purposeful in your efforts, it will come true in its entirety.

Description of external and hidden hexagrams

In the manifested world, a mighty tree rustles its foliage in the wind. There is a vain life, full of a wide variety of events.

It deeply penetrated the depths of the earth with its roots, and with its thin branches, it seems, reached the very blue sky. Along with subtle spiritual aspirations in this life there will be a deep insight into the essence of what is happening.

The tree woke up the roots of the underground sea, locked in the bowels of the earth. These quests will make it possible to discover a very powerful and dangerous source of power hidden in the inner plane.

Water rushed to the surface in a stormy stream, sweeping away all obstacles. An open internal source begins to influence the events that take place.

The tree is completely immersed in a dangerous abyss. All attention is captured by the open new and dangerous facet of reality, manifested from the inner plane.

Where yesterday a mighty tree rustled its leaves in the wind, tomorrow dangerous sea waves will walk. Where previously there was a life filled with various fuss, tomorrow everything will plunge into a new, dangerous reality.

On the SUBCONSCIOUS, in the very heart of the mountain, a seed sprouted. The seed of a new awareness of what was happening sprouted.

The tree grows by feeding on the earth. But the way to the light, to the sky is blocked by a mountain, a huge block of stone. Changes in consciousness are gaining momentum based on real facts. The unshakable, unshakable mass of generally accepted, established views, suppresses the growth of a new awareness of reality.

The tree, like thunder, sprouts through an obstacle to the surface. Changes in consciousness very abruptly overcome the existing matrix of stereotypes and begin to manifest themselves in the world of events.

And soon, under its powerful crown, it is no longer possible to distinguish the mountain at all. The old conventional wisdom will be radically rethought, so that it will be difficult to even recognize them.

General interpretation of hexagram No. 59

On the subtle plane, the habitual, well-established picture of the world breaks like thunder under the onslaught of the realization of new facts. This is development through overcoming the stereotypes and dogmas that have developed in the subconscious. Such a sharp growth and explosive changes in the subconscious are called TRANSFORMATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS. Changes in the subconscious cause powerful winds of change in the manifested reality. With the help of refinement and penetration, a new, dangerous and huge facet of reality will be opened. It gradually displaces everything else from a person's life. Habitual life guidelines and goals disappear or are rethought. The reality seems to be the same, but at the same time different, updated.

TRANSFORMATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS makes accessible, opens the inner boundless world. The outer world, it turns out, is dependent on the inner reality. Once, revealing itself, the hidden edge, like a magnet, attracts attention and pushes all external events into the background.

What is the danger of TRANSFORMATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS?

1. Natural focus on your own inner world can lead to the loss of ties with the world of events.

2. Inept use of the revealed inner power can cause the most diverse, often very undesirable, events.

3. Changing the basic established views, as a rule, cause great fear and inner panic. Familiar world is collapsing and where will it lead to this moment completely unknown! And fears at this level materialize.

It is unfavorable to go completely headlong into the subtle world, ignoring the external world as a dependent one. You can drown in the dangerous ocean of the subconscious. It is favorable to harmoniously combine two worlds in oneself: the external manifested and the internal subconscious, and every second to observe how they interact with each other.

MULTI-DIMENSIONALITY

(OPPOSITE VIBRATION OF HEXAGRAM #59)

FOLLOWING STEREOTYPES

FOLLOWING STEREOTYPES - the recognition of generally accepted, established views as the only possible and absolutely true. FOLLOWING STEREOTYPES is an obstacle to change, change at the level of consciousness. Change, change is the main property of life. Under the pressure of new facts that do not fit into the old stereotypical matrix of consciousness, there will always be a TRANSFORMATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS.

DIVING INTO THE Abyss of the OCEAN OF SUBCONSCIOUSNESS, DO NOT FORGET FOR A MOMENT ABOUT THE WORLD THAT LEFT ON THE SURFACE.

Positions for awareness:

1. TRANSFORMATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS - awareness of one's commonality with the entire Universe is fraught with the danger of fragmentation, dispersion everywhere. You can completely lose yourself as a separate consciousness, a separate person.

2. In childhood, we all loved fairy tales. And now we can't part with them. They came up with consciousness and the transformation of consciousness.

3. Do not be afraid of TRANSFORMATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS, because there are no examples of the disappearance of energy. You don't have to be afraid of anything at all.

4. Consciousness was invented by psychotherapists in order not to work, but to take money for something that does not exist. I waved my hands, made a look and, please, transformed my consciousness, get a fee.

5. The transformation of consciousness on planet Earth is in full swing from the individual to the universal! Entering the hall, we immediately feel the mood of the hall. We often feel someone else's pain and joy almost like our own, even thousands of kilometers away.

6. “The idea of ​​separation is only our illusion. The idea of ​​unity will be our experience of ultimate truth. Just a little more intelligence is needed, and you can get out of the darkness, suffering, hell in which all mankind lives. The secret of how to get out of it is to remember yourself. And this remembrance will be possible if you understand the idea that you are alone.” – Gautama Buddha

7. Even a separate part of me, my ear contains atoms that were in the magma of the Earth, in a distant unknown star, in the bodies of a dinosaur, an ant, an inhabitant of Atlantis ... What is there in me! It's all only in the body, not to mention consciousness! I am one with the entire universe.

8. “We are all members of the same family, bound by the religion of love. Love sees everyone as one divine family.” – Sathya Sai Baba

9. Make your mind flexible and pliable, like water. “Water is the softest and most pliable substance. But nothing overcomes hard and hard things better than water,” Lao Tzu “Tao Te Ching”.

10. You can engage in spiritual practices for as long as you like, but if your consciousness is limited to a narrowly defined circle, if you are only concerned about your immediate environment, then you will never be able to leave this circle in which you have placed yourself! You will always be in one limited place. Loss of strength and degradation are inevitable. Transformation, expansion of consciousness is synonymous with positive development.

11. What do you associate yourself with in the broadest sense of the word? Why do you worry, whose pain or joy you feel: only your body, only your family, only your relatives, only your nation, only your country, only people, only the planet Earth, or really the entire Cosmos? The wider you are, the stronger your influence on the world, and therefore the world on you. Any limitation is always a loss of connections, opportunities and strength.

12. I am responsible for everything that happens in the world.

13. I am only responsible for my reactions to events.

14. “When you are not aware of what is happening inside of us, from the outside it seems to be fate” - Carl Jung.

15. “Having reached the end of what should be known, you will find yourself at the beginning of what should be felt.” - Kahlil Gibran.

16. "Healing is a side effect of awareness" - Frank Kinslow.

17. “You can’t master something that you already own. It's not just difficult, it's not possible. Pure consciousness cannot be realized by working on it. It can be learned without working.” – Frank Kinslow

18. “The world is not what you imagine it to be. However, the world presents itself exactly as you think it is. Such is the power of faith.” – Mooji

Nothing lasts forever, not even rocks, or the most rigid structures. In the same way, all our obstacles will eventually disappear. This means that something new is in the making. A vivid example of this is ice floes, hardened in winter, dissipating in the warmth of spring, and when the ice melts, a mighty river appears. This tells us about a situation where small changes can produce big results over time.

Hardness in the hearts of men breeds selfishness, but this can be translated into great power, such as elevation or other social activities. Thawing closed hearts always improves conditions for everyone.

The first thing to get rid of is any rigidity within yourself that may be fueled by feelings of alienation from others. Try to work closely with your friends and compatriots, concentrating on common activities that come from your integrity and goodwill. Some slightly dramatic action in support of the greater good can energize you, lift your spirits, and lead you to new opportunities.

Spiritual impulses, including a sense of justice, must be respected. They provide the impetus for important and constructive change. Avoid righteous indignation or aggressive force of any kind, any sense of disunity can be overcome. If you have a protracted business or partnerships that are inactive or not working, this hexagram suggests that they are destroying you.

Line interpretation:

Line 1 (bottom line)

Misunderstandings and animosities that can fester can quickly develop into open sores that affect an entire community or project. Conflicts caused by hidden factors must be identified and eliminated as soon as possible in order to avoid wasted energy. Once this is done, happiness awaits you.

If you feel problems are on the horizon for your business, create reliable communication channels both within the group and with influential people outside of it. Reliable information is a powerful asset during the rapid dissolution of a business or relationship. When everything is clear, the obstacles will also disappear.

Sometimes during great work it is important to let go of any thought of yourself or desire for personal reward. Look inside yourself for what might be an obstacle or a problem. Throwing yourself into work — if the work is vital — is a great way to forget about regrets.

It's time to act and rise!

Crisis can mean opportunity, but only when like-minded people are organized in pursuit of an inspiring ideal. This is especially true in chaotic situations or at times when the situation is disorganized, when energies and resources are scattered. It takes a lot of energy and generosity and commitment to fix the moment. At times like these, remember that if you are in agreement with the majority, you will only be one of the victims of circumstance.

Line 6 (top line)

Fragmentation

Just as streams of rain are broken into droplets by the wind, so is the power of your intentions dissipated. The wind is not strong and the rain is not weak. You are too out of touch with reality. And the reality is this: you have where to apply your strength and you feel that you are capable of more.

But for some reason you direct your energy outward, away from yourself, looking for another thing, other people. Because not everything is going smoothly in your life during the period of fragmentation, because you are distracted from the essentials.

Statics

"Rejuvenated" hexagram

bottom line.

Your cause needs help, not a new case.

Second line.

If you understand that you have less strength, why do you continue to go somewhere? Houses and walls help.

Third line.

There is a possibility of irreparable damage to you ... and time to change your mind.

Fourth line.

The further development of events depends only on you. The "flock" must have a strong shepherd.

Fifth line.

Here it is important to keep the event around a well-known center. If you are this center, you will have a hard time - "sweat will come from loud screams." If you are on the periphery, do not argue with the center. It will be the same with the opposite sign.

Top line.

The Fracture overhaul has left you completely exhausted. Now we have to leave almost everything.

Andrey Khramov, Andrey Tsumanov. I-Ching - the alphabet of fate

MODERN INTERPRETATION.

ASSOCIATIVE INTERPRETATION

1. Temple in the mountains means "to be above worldly affairs."
2. The monk symbolizes a peaceful and pure personality.
3. The man follows the monk. It means "to get away from business, indulging in idleness."
4. The spirit follows the person. It means "to be restrained in one's speech and careful in one's personal conduct."
5. The deity is dressed in golden armor. It means "help from heaven".

Explanation of the hexagram according to Wen-wang.

1. This is the March hexagram. It is good in summer and winter and bad in autumn.
2. Huan acts like wind over water. It disperses water, turning it into mist and steam. The same thing happens with our mind. Due to rigidity and selfishness, we become inflexible, inflexibility leads to separation from other people. We need a warm spring breeze to dissolve this inflexibility. When the boat crosses the river, all hands must be united in a common task.
3. Friends invite you to a party in the bosom of nature - "to celebrate the arrival of spring." It sounds silly to you, but when you arrive, the day is so good and everyone is so happy that you yourself begin to feel twice as good.

Explanation of individual yao according to Zhou-gong.

1. Your friends are inspired by a grand idea and project, but when they start to implement it, disagreements and disputes begin. You, too, join the discussions and work tirelessly to correct minor misunderstandings, and as a result, the plan begins to work successfully.
2. You work very hard, as if you were traveling on horseback without rest.
3. Carelessly thrown words cannot be caught up even on four horses.

1. You find yourself living on your own and unhappy when someone tries to help you. Then you realize that this is just an attack of a bad mood, you go to visit your old friends and you realize that your vision becomes healthy and normal again.
2. When you try to gain an advantage over others, you will be besieged.
3. Everyone loves what belongs to him.

1. You are taking on a cause that is so important to you that you forget about your personal desires and preferences and follow only what contributes to the cause. This is how you achieve success.
2. While enjoying life, one should be prepared for possible future dangers.
3. An old withered tree suddenly released new shoots.

1. Your interests are starting to take you away from your circle of friends, but that doesn't bother you. Later, you notice that you develop as a person and become more interesting for both old friends and new ones.
2. There is nothing wrong with this.
3. It is like gentle rain after a long drought. You will get what you really need and what you have been deprived of for a very long time.

fifth yao

Nine fifth. Sweat dissipates from his loud cries. The royal life is scattered. There is no guilt.

1. One of your group members comes up with a great project and gets the others involved. The stagnation that you had before is ending.
2. You can't shift the blame to someone else.
3. Don't destroy the bridge by crossing the river. This means that a person should not be neglected after he has taken advantage of him.

1. You and your friends are relaxing in the park and suddenly you see that suspicious persons are approaching you. You point them out to your friends, and while someone calls the police, the rest retreat to safety.
2. It is not smart to focus on the details, forgetting about the main goal.
3. It is possible to provide financial assistance to people in difficult times, but this should not be done if they are constantly without money.

General interpretation according to Yu. Shutsky

After a long period of failure, the sun of success rises again. It will bring you everything you desire. You may be on a long journey. Don't spend a lot of money. As for your scientific, industrial and love affairs, they will go brilliantly. In the near future, you will have an unexpected chance to take a leadership position. Your desire is already being fulfilled and will be fulfilled in its entirety, if you continue to make persistent and purposeful efforts for this.

To understand this hexagram, it is necessary to remember what we have already indicated in the 31st hexagram - that the topics of the first part of the "Book of Changes" and its second part are somewhat different. In the first part we saw the creation of the agent, coming from the cosmic forces. The second part is rather the practical activity of a person in his environment.

In addition, the second part outlines the creation of personality, the emergence of the individual. And it is here, after the entire epic of the development of forces, their accumulation, their remelting, their manifestation outside, reintegration in each of the surrounding people, after this difficult path that was outlined in the previous hexagrams, finally comes the hexagram that speaks of individualization, about the manifestation of the fullness of self-consciousness in each individual person.

It is called Fragmentation. The fragmentation here indicates the emergence of individuality in the particular. Thus, the one here becomes the singular. The image that the authors of the Book of Changes have chosen to depict this fragmentation deserves our attention. The upper trigram here is wind, the lower trigram is water.

This image indicates that if the water surface, while the wind does not act, seems to us to be a certain unity, then at the first blow of the wind, many separate fragmented spangles appear on it. And every person, every personality is perceived here as something independent. During this process, the development and overthrow of this development should take place by itself. This process arises because the joy that was the property of a person who has achieved the goal is also extended to all the people around him, and everyone who has taken this joy into himself, realizing it, is aware of himself as experiencing this joy.

Thus, the person who has bestowed joy can feel that he has fulfilled everything that his existence obliges him to do. He may feel that he has fulfilled his duty to the people who gave him this existence, to his ancestors. The process of individualization outlined here is an important and serious process, and therefore here it is necessary to take great and responsible actions, in which, of course, it is necessary to maintain complete steadfastness, understood in this case as genuine rightness in thoughts, in actions, in words. In this sense, the text should be understood:

Fragmentation. Accomplishment. The king approaches the owners of the temple (the spirits of the ancestors). Favorable ford across the great river. Favorable stamina.

The first position characterizes being in oneself, non-manifestation outside; Therefore, the forces of one first position have not yet achieved the necessary individualization and fragmentation. We need outside help here. And it is marked by the Book of Changes. This help must be strong. If the image of a horse is chosen here, then, firstly, because the trigram kan, standing below, in the symbolism of animals refers to a horse, and, secondly, because here help comes even from the second position, which is occupied by a strong line, also symbolizing the horse. Therefore, in the text we read here:

Weakness in the beginning. Help needed. The horse is strong. Happiness.

During the individualization process, the most important thing is to find your own place. It should be precisely its own and durable, what the throne was presented from the point of view of the feudal authors of the Book of Changes. Therefore, in the process of individualization, each person should strive for his throne. We would say that everyone should take their rightful place. If this is done, then mistakes made in the past are smoothed out and repentance will disappear. So the text here says this:

Strong trait in second place. When shattered, run to your throne. Repentance will disappear.

In the process of fragmentation and individualization, the greatest danger is the unceasingness of this process. When in the process of fragmentation even the individuality itself is exposed to it, i.e. something indivisible, then a favorable outcome cannot occur. A person will be forced to bitterly regret that he did not stop the process of fragmentation in time.

However, since the third position, in its very meaning, is a striving outward, a disintegration of the internal, so far in this case a person does not have to repent, because, carrying out further and further disintegration, he acts only in the spirit of the position that he occupies within the given situation. So here in the text we read:

Weak trait in third place. Shatter your body. There will be no remorse.

The process of fragmentation, individualization can be considered as a two-way process from the other side. If, in a certain sense of the word, this is the fragmentation of a certain whole and thereby the destruction of it as a whole, then, on the other hand, here, instead of many, many arise. Their multitude, in a certain sense of the word, is again a kind of unity, a unity in which they appear as a whole hill.

Therefore, if a single "herd" is broken up into separate individuals, then, on the other hand, the collective of these individuals is a big hill. Apparently, the authors of the "Book of Changes" realized that such a thought, essentially dialectical, is difficult to perceive if a person is not culturally developed enough. Aware of the difficulty of this thought, the text reads:

Weak trait in fourth place. Break up your herd. Primal happiness. There will be a hill in the fragmentation. This is not what the barbarians think.

The process of individualization, fragmentation comes from a certain center and rushes to the periphery, and separate individuals appear on the periphery. To express this process figuratively, the text here speaks of how individual droplets of sweat appear on the periphery of the skin due to the fact that a person feels heat inside. This process of individuation should be carried around like a loud voice.

But in the fifth position, which should be leading, you must put yourself in the center, which is expressed in the language of the "Book of Changes" in the form of a king living in the center. This is necessary because in order to internally resist the process of fragmentation and to stay in it without being fragmented. Only then can the outcome be favorable. In this sense, the text says:

Strong trait in fifth place. When crushed, sweat comes out from loud screams. When fragmented, like a king, live. There will be no bullshit.

Excessive development of the process of fragmentation, when a person gives himself up in order for independent individuals to arise in the environment, leads to the complete surrender of his forces to the environment. But that's the way it should be. This is where you need to go beyond yourself. In this sacrificial self-giving, it is possible to rectify the failure of the sixth position, about which the text says:

Above is a strong feature. When crushed, your blood will be gone. Get out. Come out. And there will be no bullshit.