Guà Jìng - Yáo Ying

Hexagram Mirrors - Line Reflections
(line pathways)

The mirror of 31.3-32.4-45.3-46.4

31.3: Affect one's thigh. Holding in the hand one's follower. To proceed: Distress.

Everything you do affects the other affects you affects the other... So watch your knee-jerk reactions.

32.4: Fields without wildfowl.

Find the right time and place.

45.3: Then gathering, then moaning. No ground for fruitfulness. To proceed is without fault. Small distress.

Be careful with small reactions, they make the atmosphere. Try to mend faults but above all, go on.

46.4: The king avails of s a sacrifice at Mount Qi. Auspicious. Without fault.

Make sure you get the right moment for what you're going to do.

The theme of this mirror: do you think before you do?

(all yang lines of Mirror 31.3 are yin lines in Mirror 25.4 and vv)

Mirror 31.3 is about thinking before doing.
Mirror 25.4 is about not just relying on yourself alone.