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Advancing on a Relation That Was Only Neglected

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Advancing on a Relation That Was Only Neglected

Six in the fifth place is the turn of the hexagram, and its counsel is to go forward on a connection that has just been restored. Regret disappears, the subject joins with a kinsman as easily as biting through skin, and the text asks what error there could be in advancing with that help. A querent drawing this line has an ally they may not have been counting, and the reading is about acting on the alliance rather than admiring it.

The ease is the notable part. Nothing here has to be negotiated, apologised for or explained, which is unusual in a figure where every other repair costs somebody something, and it happens because these two lines correspond properly and always did. The estrangement between them was circumstantial rather than structural. When a reading lands here the useful question is which existing relation has been neglected, not which one has been broken.

When the line changes, the upper trigram Li becomes Qian and the figure becomes Treading, King Wen 10, in which a person treads on the tail of a tiger and is not bitten, because of the care with which they go. That destination is a check on the ease this line describes. Advance made possible by a restored connection is still advance in dangerous company, and Treading is the classic's account of how to conduct oneself when a situation permits movement and will not forgive carelessness.

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