ITINERARY: Kan, Water

Step 2: Gen, Mountain

Step 2: Kun, Earth

SOURCE: Zhen, Thunder

Surprising insights into
our own source of being

Keyword	DETERMINATION
no2DO	A clear, Well rooted Determination Requires Disengagement To then provide [perhaps surprising] Insights into Our own Source of being: Abysses, Springboards.

Reference

• Hexagram 2 → hexagram 3 → hexagram 4
• GB43 (A Generous Bold Vaillant Stream)
• Summer
• Knight of Swords

Annotation

Traditional Interpretation

at the difficulty at the beginning (03) something becomes visible, but one has not yet lost the right of continuance.

the image

Clouds and thunder: the image of difficulty at the beginning. Thus the superior man brings order out of confusion.

the judgement

Difficulty at the beginning works sublime success, furthering through perseverance. Nothing should be undertaken. It furthers one to appoint helpers.

Full text of Richard Wilhelm's 1924 translation I Ching (English: Cary F. Baynes)