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Gate 49: Principles

The terms on which you belong.

When it overshoots

Rejection issued pre-emptively.

At its best

Principles stated rather than enforced.

Carried and open

In a chart that carries it

Held, the sense of what is acceptable runs strong; stating it serves better than enforcing it.

In a chart where it is open

Open here, a group’s principles can harden into rules overnight; choosing your own is allowed.

When it is in the sky

Principles and the terms of belonging are in question. Reform, or something bolder, may beckon.

The six lines

1. Line 1, The InvestigatorPrinciples need examining, so find out what you actually believe before acting on it.
2. Line 2, The HermitA sense of what is right shows itself without argument, and others feel it before it is stated.
3. Line 3, The MartyrTurning things away too quickly is how this line learns that reform often achieves more than upheaval.
4. Line 4, The OpportunistPrinciples are easiest to live where the people at the table already hold them, and hardest where they must be defended at every meal.
5. Line 5, The HereticOthers may want you to enforce their principles; stating your own is enough.
6. Line 6, The Role ModelThe principles that endured made room for people rather than sorting them into the worthy and the rest.

Channels through this gate

• Synthesis · 19-49Sensitivity. Need meeting principle. Belonging negotiated on terms. With Gate 19, Wanting.

The same figure in the Book of Changes

Gate 49 is hexagram 49, Revolution, read by an older tradition.