A modern reflection
A way to look at this moment.
Withdrawal can be a considered choice when engagement no longer helps. Create enough distance to think clearly and protect your capacity. A useful retreat has a purpose; it need not become either a public defeat or a permanent disappearance.
Sit with this question
Where would a little distance help you act more wisely?
One small practice.
Set one clear boundary around your time or attention.
The image & the structure.
This hexagram places heaven above mountain. The lower trigram evokes a place to pause; the upper trigram evokes creative movement. Consider these as images to explore rather than instructions to follow.
The six lines are read from the bottom upward. A solid line is yang; a broken line is yin. In a coin reading, some lines may change and form a relating hexagram. A hexagram on its own does not specify which lines are changing.
Learn about changing lines →