Excessive Probing

Subtle Penetration beneath the bed. He loses his goods and emblem ax. Trap! The Way closes. This is not the time to penetrate the past. You will lose your position and all you care for. Do not be caught in your melancholy. There is a source of real life-water in your relation to common humanity. Expect real harmony to develop. These goings and comings will release the energy now bound up in the past. Step outside the norms. Co-operate with the on-going process of change.

上九, 巽在牀下, 喪其資斧, 貞凶.

Penetration under the bed. He loses his property and his ax. Perseverance brings misfortune. ##### Comments A man's understanding is sufficiently penetrating. He follows up injurious influences into the most secret corners. But he no longer has the strength to combat them decisively. In this case any attempt to penetrate into the personal domain of darkness would only bring harm.