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Gate 64: Confusion

Images and impressions not yet resolved.

When it overshoots

Confusion mistaken for meaning.

At its best

Images left alone until they clarify.

Carried and open

In a chart that carries it

Carried in the chart, the mind fills with pictures; leave them alone until they settle.

In a chart where it is open

Open here, a muddle in the household can pass for a muddle of your own; nobody needs you to resolve it.

When it is in the sky

Images and impressions swirl, not yet resolved. Clarity comes with time rather than effort.

The six lines

1. Line 1, The InvestigatorConfusion needs patience, so let the images be without forcing them into sense.
2. Line 2, The HermitImpressions arrive in vivid streams here, and others are intrigued by what they glimpse in them.
3. Line 3, The MartyrForcing a picture into sense too early teaches how much patience clarity needs.
4. Line 4, The OpportunistA tangle of images explained out loud to a patient friend often sorts itself halfway through the telling.
5. Line 5, The HereticNobody can make sense of everything; letting some things stay unclear is honest.
6. Line 6, The Role ModelThe images that kept returning showed their meaning in the end, in their own time.

Channels through this gate

• Abstraction · 47-64Mental activity mixed with clarity. Confusion working itself into realisation, usually later than wanted. With Gate 47, Realizing.

The same figure in the Book of Changes

Gate 64 is hexagram 64, Before Completion, read by an older tradition.