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HEXAGRAM 36 OF 64 EARTH OVER FIRE

DARKENING OF THE LIGHT

明夷 Míng Yí

darkened light, injury, hiding one's brilliance, persecution, inner light in dark times

ROASTIE

Darkening of the Light. The sun gone down into the Earth, the light wounded, hide your brilliance and endure. The book pictures a good person in a bad regime. You pictured yourself, which is adorable. Your brilliance is not being persecuted, sweetheart. It's being ignored, which is a different hexagram, and you threw this one on purpose. Ya roasted!

THE JUDGMENT

The light is wounded. It profits to stay firm and correct through the hardship.

THE LINES, BOTTOM TO TOP

  1. Line 1 The light wounded in flight, wings drooping; the superior man goes three days without food; his host murmurs.
  2. Line 2 The light wounded in the left thigh; saved by a strong horse; good fortune.
  3. Line 3 Hunting in the south, the chief of the darkness is captured; do not be hasty in setting things right.
  4. Line 4 Enters the left side of the belly and reaches the heart of the darkness; leaves by the gate and courtyard.
  5. Line 5 The darkness of Prince Ji, who feigned madness to survive; firmness profits.
  6. Line 6 No light, only darkness; first it climbed to heaven, then it sank into the earth.
THROW YOUR OWN ALL SIXTY-FOUR

Text: the I Ching, after James Legge's 1882 translation, public domain, trimmed into plain English. The take: a coffee bean, licensed in nothing.