41.mycal8 -- Diminishing or Decrease
From< Youtube.com > Hexagram 41, Diminishing or Decrease , offers profound wisdom on the necessity of reducing excess and rebalancing life’s energies to achieve harmony and freedom from errors. Here's an expanded reflection based on your interpretation: I. The Oracle Hexagram 41: Sun (Decrease or Diminishing) Lower Trigram (Dui) : Open, joy, represented by a lake or swamp. Upper Trigram (Gen) : Bound, stillness, represented by a mountain. The interplay of these trigrams illustrates a process of reduction—removing excess from the lower realm (the lake) to strengthen the upper realm (the mountain). A. The Judgment: Decrease combined with sincerity brings about supreme good fortune without blame. This implies that intentional and heartfelt reduction—whether of desires, material possessions, or emotional excess—leads to clarity and harmony. It furthers one to undertake something. Undertaking something in the spirit of reduction requires humility and discipline. The ...
