29.1.2.3.4 (29 > 49)
The trigrams
The trigrams are combinations of three yin and yang lines. The three bottom lines of the hexagram form the lower trigram and represent the inner situation. The three top lines form the upper trigram and represent the outer situation.
Upper trigram: The water The lake


Lower trigram: The water The fire


29.1 (29 > 60) - Dealing with problems in the right order
When one has encountered a difficulty, one must solve it before facing others.
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29.2 (29 > 8) - Passing the buck
When one encounters difficulties that are too great, one leaves them to those who know how to handle them.
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29.3 (29 > 48) - Leaving the field
Others notice what one has wasted, thus one leaves.
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The nuclear hexagram is the association of the two inner trigrams (lines 2,3,4 and 3,4,5). It represents the root, or the origin of the situation.
27.1.2.3.4.5 (27 > 44) - Renewing oneself
One removes the old stuff to make way for something new.
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The starting situation
29.4 (29 > 47) - Living sparsely
When one has little means, one is content with simple things.
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The direction where the ruler is going to bend
29.1.2.3 (29 > 63) - Being governed by anger
One crystallizes one's rejections after having been the victim of an attack that one had feared.
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