Trichotomous Form

Due to the presence of BOTH/AND states in this hexagram's trichotomous form, this hexagram can share context with hexagrams 17, 63, 64, 47, 22, 48, and 21, without change.

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Transformations

At all times, the path into hexagram 18 is that of 46 - ascending, push upwards. What this implies is that the change of any hexagram into 18 is forced to go through the characteristics of 46 (corruption is strongly linked to hierarchy and getting entangled).

At all times the path out of hexagram 18 is the opposite of the path in - in this case the path described by 25 - disentanglement, non-involving. Thus the process of hexagram 18 changing into any other hexagram has to pass through hexagram 25 to start.

Influences

Hexagram 18 finds it's roots in hexagram 11, Balancing, with the emphasis on using balance and harmony to correct corruption

As we progress towards the refined point at the top of the hexagram, so we pass through ever-improving states, the description of which is given by the order of contextual hexagrams. The final contextual state, prior to text and context becoming 'one', is described by the line 5 influence - hexagram 48, founding, inner source.

For hexagram 18, the contextual hexagrams sequence from the base line through to the top is:

• line 1 - hexagram 11, Balancing
• line 2 - hexagram 15, Evening, Modesty
• line 3 - hexagram 07, Uniforming
• line 4 - hexagram 32, Commiting
• line 5 - hexagram 48, Founding, inner source
• line 6 - hexagram 18, Correcting

Line Influences

At a finer level of analysis, the contextual hexagrams encapsulate the behaviour of a hexagram pair - where one is connected to the unchanging line and the other to the line when it changes.These pairs are shown below, with The layout format described here

18 (26,16) Corrupting, Correcting



     With containment comes retainment.

     



------ (6) Presence - Inspiring : Contemplating        (34)      (20)

--  -- (5) Influence - Arousing : Controlling          (51)      (57)

--  -- (4) Influence - Delivering : Communicating      (40)      (37)

------ (3) Development - Mirroring : Bypassing         (38)      (39)

------ (2) Regulation - Self. Reflect : Self. Restraint(58)      (52)

--  -- (1) Balance - Approaching : Withdrawing         (19)      (33)



Influencing changing line hexagram for:



Line 6 Hexagram   : 39

     5            : 52

     4            : 33

     3            : 20

     2            : 57

     1            : 37

Generic template-biased description

Contractive bonding within the context of contractive binding.
Contractive static aspect within the context of a contracting dynamic aspect.