I Chinghexagram 09, depicted |||:|| is named 小畜 (xiao3 chu4), Small Accumulating. Other translations: R. Wilhelm/C. Baynes, The Taming Power of the Small; E. Shaughnessy (Mawangdui), Small Harvest. Alternative meaning: I Ching (monk) The I Ching (Traditional Chinese: 易經, pinyin y jīng; Cantonese IPA: jɪk6gɪŋ1; Cantonese Jyutping: jik6ging1; alternative romanizations include I Jing, Yi Ching, Yi King) is the oldest of the Chinese classic texts. ...
Image of I Ching hexagram 09. ...
Inner (lower) trigram is ☰ (||| 乾 qian2) Force = (天) heaven
The skeletal form of hexagram 09 is described by analogy to the under-exaggerated properties of hexagram 48 - The Well, setting-down foundations, a source of nourishment
The trigrams can be read bottom to top as "With perseverence (heaven in lower) comes becoming influencial (wind in upper)"
The analogy of the completeness of hexagram 09 is made to the general characteristics of hexagram 04 where we cover issues of masking, of socialisation of youth and so of education that accumulates and serves us to stand upon and be 'noticed' in the society.
Of interest in the dynamics of hexagrams, an interesting pattern in the Changing-Line Matrix, is a relationship of PAIRS of hexagrams where there is a sense of direction, FROM A to B in the pairs.
09 - this hexagram deals with the making of small gains, pilling them up and so 'standing upon them' to be noticed and so become influencial.
By this I mean that hexagram51 is energy expending, concentrated, and as such 57 reflects a DAMPENING focus, a focus on 'diffuse' use of energy (as in 'Wind') compared to the intense, precise use of energy (as in 'Thunder').
In the modern-day use of the I Ching, there is a strong bias to interpreting each line of a hexagram as of 'equal' value to all of the rest.
Thus the base line of a hexagram is linked to a raw characteristic that is then refined as we move through the hexagram to become the 'refined' whole at the top line; there is a qualitative change, a change rooted in cardinality.
Hexagram 28 is found to describe the movement from hexagram 16 to hexagram09, and in the context of line 1 of hexagram 1, hexagram 16 is biased to the line unchanging, and hexagram09 is biased to the line changing.
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