Guà Jìng - Yáo Ying

Hexagram Mirrors - Line Reflections
(line pathways)

Mirror group 15.2-46.2-16.5-45.5

About doing things instead of aiming for success.

15.2 yin: Expressing respect. Determination auspicious.

Respect for yourself and the other Smakes cooperation and relations durable.

46.2 yang: Inspiring confidence, then benefit from offering a Yue-sacrifice. Without fault.

When you inspire trust, promises or gifts don't need to be big.

Lines 15.2 and 46.2 are each others fanyao, like views on the same landscape but from a different side, Mountain-Wind and vv. Asking for different actions. Mountain: you are respectful, Wind: you receive respect.

16.5 yin: Determination: affliction. (oracle says: disease) Persevering, not dying.

Don't aim for success, do it because you don't give up.

45.5 yang: Gathering has ranks. Without fault. Not inspiring trust. Great ever-flowing determination. Regrets go away.

Roles and ranks define duties, not trust or inspiration. Even gathered herbs of 1 kind have lower or higher quality.

Lines 16.5 and 45.5 are each others fanyao, like views on the same landscape but from a different side, Thunder-Lake and vv. Asking for different actions. Thunder: you make it happen, Lake: you do it out of social duty.

Lines 15.2 and 16.5 and also 45.5 and 46.2 are each others qianyao (upside-down). Here are similar actions but in different landscapes (complementary contexts).
What was up, outside or mental, is now down, inside or physical.

Mirror groups 15.2-46.2 and 09.5-26.5 are contrasts
(all yang lines of Mirror 15.2 are yin lines in Mirror 09.5 and vv)
Mirror 15.2 is about how the core, not the action, decides the outcome.
Mirror 09.5 is about the beauty of the rules of life.

Explanations: How I found the Mirrors and how they work