Water Octet
The ROOTS of the category of Water in the universal IC is in a generic sense of contractive
bounding, to enclose 'something', to use a boundary of some form and
so differentiate this from that with a core focus on keeping something 'in/out' and that covers socialisation perspectives
- maintaining the current dogma, educating those in that dogma. defending that dogma. The core hexagram pairs with
water as the base trigram and so setting the context in which the top can operate are:
07 - unforming
04 - socialising (masking)
29 - controlling (containing)
59 - dispelling (make things 'clear')
40 - relaxed structuring (tension releasing)
64 - delaying closure (mis-sequencing)
47 - enclosing
06 - compromising (meeting half-way; interpreted
as 'conflict' with a legal emphasis)
ALL of these can be interpreted negatively or positively - e.g. 47 is treated by Wilhelm with a negative aire but
there is also a cooperative, positive aire in that the enclosure forces the roots of a tree to go deep and so integrate
with the context - in the perspective of the IC's focus on change this can be interpreted as 'negative' in that it goes against change. In the above pairs, the first hexagram
is unconditional in its manner, the second is conditional.
All have a sense of containment/control as a 'fundamental' element. The skeletal forms (27-ness) of all of these hexagrams
are found in the octet of lake.
Due to the OCTET of water reflecting the overall dynamics of the binary ordering, so we can pair things in the
form of POTENTIAL/ACTUAL dynamics or as BALANCED/EXAGGERATED expressions:
07 - 06 (balanced - exaggerated)
04 - 47 -- e.g. we 'over-mask' to the extent of causing 'tension' in the one enclosed
29 - 64
59 - 40
The PAIRS themselves form into quartets of meaning ((07,04),(29,59) Vs (40,64),(47,06)) and so on. (e.g. more pairs
such as 40,64 vs 47,06 - meaning in meaning in meaning - all due to the method of derivation)