Yi Jing · Chinese tarot
Decline
Hexagram 23 of the Yi Jing · 剥 Bō
The figure
The Mountain above the Earth: a single solid line, at the top, undermined by five broken ones. The image of erosion, of what comes undone from below.
What this figure illuminates
Splitting Apart lights up the phases when what once held crumbles, when frontal resistance no longer makes sense. You don't fight winter; you take shelter and preserve the seed.
For a decision, the figure invites you to yield ground in time: “what must I let go to protect the essential, rather than lose everything by clinging?”.
A question to keep
What must you let go in time to protect what matters?
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