Extreme Conflict

Dragons grapple in the countryside. Their blood flows down, dark mystery into the yellow earth. The new time is coming. If you try to dominate the situation it would be a misuse of creative energy. Yield, give way and restore the peace. Do not just change your face. Take in the lessons of the past. There is a ripe fruit uneaten and you must carry it away. Be open and provide what is needed.

上六, 龍戰于野, 其血玄黃.

Dragons fight in the meadow. Their blood is black and yellow. ##### Comments In the top place the dark element should yield to the light. If it attempts to maintain a position to which it is not entitled and to rule instead of serving, it draws down upon itself the anger of the strong. A struggle ensues in which it is overthrown, with injury, however, to both sides. The dragon, symbol of heaven, comes to fight the false dragon that symbolized the inflation of the earth principle. Midnight blue is the color of heaven; yellow is the color of earth. Therefore, when black and yellow blood flow, it is a sign that in this unnatural contest both primal powers suffer injury.