Resolve Misunderstanding

Diverging alone. You see Heavenly Swine covered with muck, the Chariot of Dead Souls. First you stretch the bow, then you loosen the bow. These you confront are definitely not outlaws. Seek a marriage alliance. Going on you meet the rain. Wise Words! The Way will open. You see those around you as dirty pigs and old ghosts. Drop the hostility and seek an alliance. These are the first steps on the path to union. Stay within the security of your dwelling and count on the new connections. The old way is an empty womb. You can speak freely now for nothing is lacking. If you let yourself be led you can realize the hidden potential. Co-operate with the ongoing process of change.

上九, 睽孤, 見豕負塗, 載鬼一車, 先張之弧, 後說之弧, 匪寇, 婚媾, 往遇雨則吉.

Isolated through opposition, One sees one's companion as a pig covered with dirt, As a wagon full of devils. First one draws a bow against him, ##### Comments Then one lays the bow aside. He is not a robber; he will woo at the right time. As one goes, rain falls; then good fortune comes. Here the isolation is due to misunderstanding; it is brought about not by outer circumstances but by inner conditions. A man misjudges his best friends, taking them to be as unclean as a dirty pig in and as dangerous as a wagon full of devils. He adopts an attitude of defense. But in the end, realizing his mistake, he lays aside the bow, perceiving that the other is approaching with the best intentions for the purpose of close union. Thus the tension is relieved. The union resolves the tension, just as falling rain relieves the sultriness preceding a thunderstorm. All goes well, for just when opposition reaches its climax it changes over to its antithesis.