Overcoming Darkness

A time of brightening, a time of darkening. First it mounts to Heaven, then it enters the Earth. The tyrant falls, the darkening ends. Though you feel held back, have no fear. You are connected to others through a net of spiritual relations. You have been locked up and cannot move for now, but this is for your own good. Be simple and pure. You can renovate this corrupt situation. Co-operate with the on-going process of change.

上六, 不明晦, 初登于天, 後入于地.

Not light but darkness. First he climbed up to heaven, ##### Comments Then plunged into the depths of the earth. Here the climax of the darkening is reached. The dark power at first held so high a place that it could wound all who were on the side of good and of the light. But in the end it perishes of its own darkness, for evil must itself fall at the very moment when it has wholly overcome the good, and thus consumed the energy to which it owed its duration.