Outer Harmony

Harmonizing People at the outskirts. Without a cause for sorrow. This is the emergence of the great new purpose. Make the change with grace and elegance. Overturn things to clear communication. There is nothing harmful in your aims. The confused movement you experience now is a good omen for beginnings. Respect it. Strip away the old. You are coupled with a creative force.

上九, 同人于郊, 无悔.

Fellowship with men in the meadow. No remorse. ##### Comments The warm attachment that springs from the heart is lacking here. We are by this time actually outside of fellowship with others. However, we ally ourselves with them. The fellowship does not include all, but only those who happen to dwell near one another. The meadow is the pasture at the entrance to the town. At this stage, the ultimate goal of the union of mankind has not yet been attained, but we need not reproach ourselves. We join the community without separate aims of our own.