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Carried Forward by a Confidence One Did Not Manufacture

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Carried Forward by a Confidence One Did Not Manufacture

Six in the third place is a favourable reading whose favour comes from other people. All parties trust the subject and the grounds for regret disappear. A querent here has usually been worrying about their own standing, and the line answers a question they did not ask: the standing is already granted, by a group whose aim runs in the same direction as their own.

The commentary is careful to say that the shared purpose is to move upward and act, which keeps this from being mere popularity. Trust of that kind is given by people who want the same movement, and it lasts exactly as long as the movement does. The position itself is incorrect by the ordinary rule, a yielding stroke in an odd place at the top of the earth trigram Kun, and the line does not trouble to defend it, because what holds the subject up is not the seat they occupy.

When the line changes, the lower trigram Kun becomes Gen and the figure becomes The Wanderer, King Wen 56, a traveller with no standing anywhere and nothing but their own conduct to rely on. Set against a line whose entire strength is collective trust, that is a pointed destination. What is borrowed from a group can be withdrawn the moment the group's direction shifts, and this line is at its best only while the shared aim holds.

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