2. K'un / Receptive Force
(Earth above Earth)
Description
Earth above and Earth below:
The Earth contains and sustains.
In this situation, the Superior Person should not take the initiative; he should follow the initiative of another.
He should seek receptive allies in the southwest; he should break ties with immovable allies in the northeast.
Responsive devotion.
Receptive influence.
Sublime Success if you keep to your course.
Analysis
This is a time for dealing with reality as it is, not as you would have it be.
If you realize that in this situation you are the receptor, not the transmitter of the stimulus, you will find yourself reaching goals that seemed unattainable under your own steam.
If you persist in futile efforts to be the Shaper rather than the Shaped, you will completely miss this unique opportunity.
Changing Lines
Line 1
When frost crunches underfoot can winter ice be far behind?
Line 2
Straight, square, and true.
By being instead of doing, nothing is left undone.
Line 3
Hide your brilliance.
Feeling no threat, they won't resist the completion of your goal.
All you lose is credit for the accomplishment.
Line 4
Be a tied-up sack, letting your inner contents remain unseen.
There will be no praise, but also no blame.
Line 5
A yellow robe.
Supreme good fortune.
Line 6
The battling dragons are too evenly matched.
Each spills black and yellow blood to the soil below.