Clouded Perception

明夷 (míng yí)
Hexagram 36 • Binary: 000101

Trigrams

Upper: Earth

Attribute: receptive
Element: Earth
Direction: Southwest
Family: Mother

Lower: Fire

Attribute: clinging
Element: Fire
Direction: South
Family: Middle Daughter

Palace

Kan Palace

Element: Water
Ruling Trigram: water

Judgment

Under the conditions of Clouded Perception be aware of the difficulty of your position and maintain firm correctness.

Image

The sun enters the earth -- the image of Clouded Perception. The superior man manages his subordinates and shows his intelligence by keeping it hidden.

Lines

1

Position 1: Drooping Wings yin

The first line, dynamic, shows its subject with clouded perception, flying, but with drooping wings. When the superior man is about his business he may go for three days without eating. Wherever he goes, the people there may speak derisively of him.

2

Position 2: Wounded Thigh yin

The second line, magnetic, shows its subject with clouded perception and wounded in the left thigh. She saves herself by the strength of a swift horse, and is fortunate.

3

Position 3: Southern Hunt yin

The third line, dynamic, shows its subject in the condition of clouded perception, hunting in the south, and taking the great chief of the darkness. He should not be eager to make all correct at once.

4

Position 4: Dark Belly yang

The fourth line, magnetic, shows its subject just entered into the left side of the belly of the dark land. But she is able to carry out the mind appropriate to the condition of clouded perception, quitting the gate and courtyard of the lord of darkness.

5

Position 5: Count of Chi yin

The fifth line, magnetic, shows how the Count of Chi fulfilled the condition indicated by clouded perception. It will be advantageous to be firm and correct.

6

Position 6: Total Darkness yang

The sixth line, magnetic, shows the case where there is no light, but only obscurity. Its subject had at first ascended to the top of the sky; her future shall be to go into the earth.