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Adoptez l'humilité et l'équilibre ; laissez la modestie guider vos actions pour un progrès harmonieux.
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Lorsque la modestie s'exprime naturellement, elle conduit à des résultats positifs et à un succès durable.
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Une personne qui allie modestie et compétence peut accomplir de grandes choses et mener des projets à bien.
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La modestie dans l'action est toujours bénéfique et conduit au progrès.
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Lorsque la modestie est évidente, il est approprié de prendre des mesures décisives pour corriger les problèmes internes et améliorer la communauté.
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Achever une tâche ne garantit pas le repos. Restez vigilant, attentif aux situations évolutives, prêt à vous adapter et à agir selon les besoins.
Other titles: Modesty, The Symbol of Humility, Moderation, Humbling, Respectful/Humble, Yielding/Retiring. 1. Obtaining this hexagram implies that modesty is needed in our attitude, meaning, to allow ourself to be led without resistance. – C.K. Anthony. 2. A Humble or modest person is thought of as having an “empty or unoccupied” mind, meaning a mind without prejudice. – Chung Wu. 3. Only superior people who practice Tao know where to stop, disregard what they have and appear to have nothing. – T. Cleary.
Judgment
Legge:Temperance indicates successful progress. Temperancebrings a good issue to the superior man's undertakings.
Wilhelm/Baynes: Modesty creates success. The superior man carries things through.
Blofeld:Modesty brings success. The Superior Man is able to carry affairs through to completion.
Liu: Modesty: success. The superior man can continue to work to the end.
Ritsema/Karcher: Humbling, Growing. A chun tzu possesses completing. [This hexagram describes your situation in terms of the necessity to cut through pride and complication. It emphasizes that keeping your words unpretentious is the adequate way to handle it...]
Shaughnessy: Modesty: Receipt; the gentleman has an end.
Cleary (1):Humility is developmental. The superior person has a conclusion.
Cleary (2):Humility gets through. A leader has a conclusion.
Wu:Humility is pervasive. The jun zi will have grace in death.
The Image
Legge: A mountain hidden within the earth -- the image of Temperance. The superior man, in accordance with this, diminishes his excesses to augment his insufficiencies, thus creating a just balance.
Wilhelm/Baynes: Within the earth, a mountain: the image of Modesty. Thus the superior man reduces that which is too much, and augments that which is too little. He weighs things and makes them equal.
Blofeld: This hexagram symbolizes a mountain in the centre of the earth. The Superior Man takes from where there is too much in order to augment what is too little. He weighs things and apportions them fairly. [The component trigrams symbolize a mountain surrounded by flat earth, thus suggesting too much in one place and too little in others.]
Liu: The mountain within the earth symbolizes modesty. The superior man reduces the excess and increases the lacking; he weighs and then equalizes all things.
Ritsema/Karcher: Earth center possessing mountain. Humbling. A chun tzu uses reducing the numerous to augment the few. A chun tzu uses evaluating beings to even spreading-out.
Cleary (1): There are mountains in the earth; modesty. Thus does the superior person decrease the abundant and add to the scarce, assessing things and dealing impartially.
Cleary (2): … Leaders assess people and give impartially, by taking from the abundant and adding to the scarce.
Wu: There is a mountain inside earth; this is Humility. Thus the jun zi takes excess from the more to enrich the less and measures goods to ensure fair distribution. [To prepare oneself to accept what is fair among all his fellow men is the essence of humility.]
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: It is the way of heaven to dispense its blessings downwards, and the way of earth to radiate its influence upwards. Both heaven and earth diminish the full to augment the lowly. Spiritual beings inflict calamity on the proud and bless the meek, and men resent ostentation and love temperance. Temperanceenlightens an honorable office, and neither will men ignore it in lowly positions. Thus does the superior man attain his ends. [Emphasis editor's -- Ritsema/Karcher translate "spiritual beings" [Kuei Shen] as: "The whole range of imaginal beings both inside and outside the individual; spiritual powers, gods, demons, ghosts, powers, fetishes.”]
Legge: An essay on temperance rightly follows that on abundant possessions. The third line, dynamic among five magnetic lines, in the topmost place of the trigram of Keeping Still, is the ruler of the hexagram. He is the representative of Temperance -- strong, but self-effacing. The idea is that temperance is the way to permanent success.
The Confucian commentary deals generally with the subject of temperance, showing how it is valued by heaven and earth, by spirits and by men. The descent of the heavenly influences, and the low position of the earth are both symbolic of temperance. The heavenly influences are seen in the daily fluctuations of the sun and moon, and the fertility of the earth correspondingly waxes and wanes with the seasons.
The Daily Lecture says:"The five yin lines above and below symbolize the earth; the one yang line in the center is the mountain in the midst of the earth. The many yin lines represent men's desires; the one yang line represents the heavenly principle. The superior man, looking at this symbolism, diminishes the multitude of human desires within him, and increases the single shoot of the heavenly principle; so does he become grandly just, and can deal with all things evenly according to the nature of each. In whatever circumstances or place he is, he will do what is right.”
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Judgment:Temperance means maintaining a dynamic/magnetic balance of forces to attain success.
The Superior Man maintains equilibrium in all that he does.
The most common translation of the title for this hexagram is Modesty, but I have chosen Temperance as a title more expressive of the ideas in the Image and Confucian commentary. The words “modesty” and “humility” often carry a connotation of weakness in western usage, and “temperance,” meaning to temper or regulate, is more expressive of the dynamic strength of will required to restrain and modulate the drive to dominate every situation.
The Image shows a mountain hidden beneath the earth--the quiet, invincible power of sheer will is hidden from view, yet it influences everything. Who observing such a level surface would know that the bulk of Mt. Everest was buried beneath it? Temperance means that one's power is hidden, that the fluctuations of heaven and earth are kept in such dynamic/magnetic balance as to be invisible to ordinary vision. The temperate person is strong enough to bear the weight of the world when that is necessary for the Work.
Marcus Aurelius, the Stoic Roman Emperor, was arguably the most powerful man of his time, yet his temperance and modesty showed him to fulfill the ideal of the superior man. Only the truly strong can be truly modest.
And let this truth be present to thee in the excitement of anger, that to be moved by passion is not manly, but that mildness and gentleness, as they are more agreeable to human nature, so also are they more manly; and he who possesses these qualities possesses strength, nerves and courage, and not the man who is subject to fits of passion and discontent. For in the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength. Marcus Aurelius
Line 2
Legge: The second line, magnetic, shows us temperance that has made itself recognized. With firm correctness there will be good fortune.
Wilhelm/Baynes: Modesty that comes to expression. Perseverance brings good fortune.
Blofeld: Modestly crows the cock. Righteous persistence brings good fortune.
Liu: Modesty is expressed. Continuing brings good fortune.
Shaughnessy: Calling modesty; determination is auspicious.
Cleary (1): Expressing humility is upright and good.
Cleary (2): Expressing humility is good if correct.
Wu: The subject rolls about humility. With perseverance there will be auspiciousness.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: She has the virtue in the core of her heart. Wilhelm/ Baynes: He has it in the depths of his heart. Blofeld: The cry reaches the depths of our hearts. Ritsema/Karcher: Centering the heart acquiring indeed. Cleary (2): Good if correct in the sense of attainment of the heart. Wu: Because it comes from the heart.
Legge: Line two is magnetic, central, and in her proper place. She represents temperance that has "crowed” -- that is, has proclaimed itself.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: Modesty is at the core of the man's being and reveals itself in his outward behavior.
Wing: By maintaining a careful inner Moderation, your outward actions gain influence and weight. You will now be entrusted with responsibilities. A thoroughness in your actions brings good fortune.
Editor: Temperance that "crows” seems to be a contradiction in terms; nevertheless, the image suggests the expression of temperance in one's behavior. A certain sacrifice of autonomy is implied.
The greater you are, the more you should behave humbly, and then you will find favor with the Lord. Ecclesiasticus 3: 19
A. Submit to the requirements of the time.
B. "Modesty is the best policy."
C. Show a little temperance in your behavior, or maintain your temperate attitude.
Line 3
Legge: The third line, dynamic, shows the superior man of acknowledged merit. He will maintain his success to the end, and have good fortune.
Wilhelm/Baynes: A superior man of modesty and merit carries things to conclusion. Good fortune.
Blofeld: The Superior Man, exceedingly hard-working yet modest, brings his affairs to fruition -- good fortune!
Liu: The superior man works in a modest way to conclusion. Good fortune.
Ritsema/Karcher: Toiling Humbling: chun tzu. Possessing completing significant.
Shaughnessy: Toiling modesty; the gentleman has an end; auspicious.
Cleary (1): Working with humility, the superior person has a conclusion. This bodes well.
Cleary (2): Leaders who work and achieve yet are humble have an auspicious conclusion.
Wu: Working hard toward humility, the jun zi will have grace in death. This will be auspicious.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: The myriads of the people will submit to him. Wilhelm/ Baynes: All the people obey him. Blofeld: The people most willingly submit to him. Ritsema/Karcher: The myriad commoners submitting indeed. Cleary (2): The people submit to leaders who work and achieve yet are humble. Wu: Because he has the support of all the people.
The Master said:"He toils with success, but does not boast of it; he achieves merit, but takes no virtue to himself from it; this is the height of generous goodness, and speaks of the man who with great merit yet places himself below others. He wishes his virtue to be more and more respectful, he who is so modest, carrying his respectfulness to the utmost, will be able to preserve himself in his position.”
Legge: Line three is dynamic, and occupies his proper place. He is the lord of the hexagram, to whom all represented by the lines above and below turn.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: The man disregards his fame and acknowledged merit but toils on laboriously and unpretentiously. He is supported by all the people in bringing his works to a successful conclusion.
Wing: With an unwavering commitment and hard work, you gain honor and fame. Do not allow such recognition to lead you astray or put you in a compromising position. Maintaining the perseverance that brought you prominence will win you continued support. You can then bring your work to completion.
Editor: The key idea here is the notion of inferior elements submitting to a calmly devoted superior element. The inferior elements acknowledge their superior and willingly submit to him.
Plans for control of the evil forces that have been loosed in the world, attempts to compensate the evil- doing by good works or sympathy for the victims, efforts to safeguard the peace or to effect ideal solutions of all the material problems involved, can do little to change the nature of the situation. The real problem, namely, the question of what can be done for civilization in face of the nonhuman forces arising from the collective unconscious in thousands or rather millions of individual persons, will remain untouched. However, if only one human being has met and solved the problem in himself, he will be a living demonstration of a solution. Such an individual carries with him the germ of a renaissance of the spiritual values of mankind. M.E. Harding -- Psychic Energy
A. The ego fulfills its role by bringing disparate elements (emotions, desires, appetites, etc.) into willing compliance with the goals of the Work.
B. A strong stance inspires obedience.
Line 4
Legge: The fourth line, magnetic, shows one whose action would be in every way advantageous, stirring up the more her temperance.
Wilhelm/Baynes: Nothing that would not further modesty in movement.
Blofeld: Everything will be propitious for those who cultivate modesty.
Liu: To act with modesty is beneficial toward everything.
Ritsema/Karcher: Without not Harvesting, demonstrating Humbling.
Shaughnessy: There is nothing not beneficial. False modesty.
Cleary (1): Beneficial to all, extending humility.
Cleary (2): Beneficial to all, the exercise of humility.
Wu: Promoting humility is nothing but advantageous.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: In doing this she does not act contrary to the proper rule. Wilhelm/Baynes: He does not overstep the rule. Blofeld: This involves no departure from what is right. Ritsema/Karcher: Not contradicting by-consequence indeed. Cleary (2): This is the way it is supposed to be. Wu: Because it violates no principle.
Legge: Line four is magnetic and in her proper place. She is sure to be successful and prosperous, but being so near the fifth-line ruler she should still use the greatest precaution. The "proper rule” is the rule proper for her in her circumstances so near the place of the ruler.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: The man maintains his modesty in the proper perspective. He does not avoid his responsibilities, abuse the ruler's confidence, or conceal the subordinate's merit.
Wing: Once the balance of true Moderation is reached, it must be continually maintained. This does not mean simply maintaining the form of Moderation, but continuing to cultivate equilibrium in your character and a sense of responsibility toward your society.
Editor: An unambiguous image of temperate action.
Modesty and humility are not signs of an inferiority complex. They are highly estimable, indeed admirable virtues and not complexes. They prove that their fortunate possessor is not a presumptuous fool but knows his limitations, and will therefore never stumble beyond the bounds of humanity, dazzled and intoxicated by his imagined greatness. Jung -- Depth Psychology and Self-Knowledge
A. Advance the Work through temperate, well-considered action, without exceeding your authority.
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Legge: The sixth line, magnetic, shows us temperance that has made itself recognized. The subject of it will with advantage put her army in motion, but she will only punish her own towns and state.
Wilhelm/Baynes: Modesty that comes to expression. It is favorable to set armies marching to chastise one's own city and one's country.
Blofeld: Modestly crows the cock. Now is the time to set armies marching to subdue the cities and the countries of the empire.
Liu: Modesty is expressed. It is favorable to use the army to chastise the city and country.
Ritsema/Karcher: Calling Humbling. Harvesting: availing-of moving legions. Chastising the capital city.
Shaughnessy: Calling modesty; beneficial herewith to move troops to campaign against city and state.
Cleary (1): Trumpeting humility, it is profitable to use the army to conquer one’s land.
Cleary (2): Expressing humility, one profits from military operations attacking the country.
Wu: The subject rolls about humility. It will be advantageous to use the armies to chasten the seditious state.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: All her aims have not yet been attained. She may employ the force of arms only to correct her own towns and state. Wilhelm/ Baynes: The purpose is not yet attained. Blofeld: Because the ruler's will has yet to be carried out, it is proper to do so. [This omen can be taken to indicate that we can afford to go forward boldly with our plans, but only if their fruition will tally with the general good. "The ruler's will” in this case is roughly synonymous with the public good.] Ritsema/Karcher: Purpose not-yet acquired indeed. Permitting availing-of moving legions. Chastising the capital city indeed. Cleary (2): The aspiration has not been attained. Wu: His aspirations have not been fulfilled … The purpose is to chasten the seditious state.
Legge: The subject of the magnetic sixth line is outside a game that has been played out. She will use force, but only within her own sphere and to assert what is right. She will not be aggressive. Chu Hsi bases all that is said under line six on its being a magnetic line, so that the temperate ruler is unable even at the close of the action to accomplish all her objects, and must limit her field even in appealing to arms.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: Even though the man's probity is recognized, his aims are not yet achieved. True modesty begins by disciplining one's own ego and the character of one's immediate circle, without being aggressive beyond.
Wing: Your inner development is not yet complete. The time calls for self-discipline. When difficulties arise, do not place the blame upon others. Once you begin to take responsibility for your own destiny you can bring order to your environment.
Editor: The ruler uses force to attain order in both this and the previous line, but here her influence is confined to immediate objectives. Temperance in this instance is expressed in her awareness of a lack of wholeness in the matter at hand, and of her own limitations in being able to effect completion. Psychologically, to "punish your own towns and state:” is to confine your action to the proper discipline of inner responses: emotions, drives, temptations, etc.
Better an equable man than a hero, a man master of himself than one who takes a city. Proverbs 16: 32
A. Recognize the limitations inherent in the situation and confine your action to objectives within your own sphere of control.
B. A modest, although incomplete, achievement. Confine your activity to controlling personal responses.
C. Don't get carried away with a modest achievement.
Autres titres : Avant l'achèvement, Le symbole de ce qui n'est pas encore passé, Pas encore traversé, Pas encore terminé, Tâches à accomplir, Pas encore, À venir, Avant la fin, Mission non accomplie, Un état de transition
Jugement
Legge : Affaires inachevées suggère un progrès réussi, maissi le jeune renard qui a presque traversé le ruisseau mouille sa queue, il n'y aura aucun avantage.
Wilhelm/Baynes :Avant l'achèvement. Succès. Mais si le petit renard, après avoir presque terminé la traversée, mouille sa queue dans l'eau, rien ne favoriserait.
Blofeld : Avant l'achèvement -- succès ! Avant que le petit renard n'ait complètement traversé la glace, sa queue se mouille. [Cela implique que nous devons nous attendre à un revers dans nos plans.] Aucun objectif (ou destination) n'est favorable maintenant. [C'est donc un moment pour attendre et pour rentrer nos cornes. Que le DERNIER des soixante-quatre hexagrammes soit Avant l'achèvement plutôt qu'Après l'achèvement (#63) peut sembler surprenant jusqu'à ce qu'on se rappelle qu'il n'y a rien de final à ce sujet ; le cycle du changement continue, passant de l'hexagramme #64 au premier hexagramme, et ainsi de suite éternellement.]
Liu : Avant l'achèvement. Succès. Un jeune renard presque traversé mouille sa queue dans l'eau. Rien ne profite.
Ritsema/Karcher : Pas encore traversé, Croissance. Le petit renard, un gué boueux. Mouiller sa queue : sans direction : Récolte. (Sans direction : Récolte, WU YU Li : aucun plan ou direction n'est avantageux ; pour tirer parti de la situation, ne pas imposer une direction aux événements.) [Cet hexagramme décrit votre situation en termes d'être à la limite d'un changement important de situation. Il souligne que l'attente et l'accumulation d'énergie pour commencer le mouvement à venir est la manière adéquate de le gérer...]
Shaughnessy :Pas encore terminé : Réception ; le petit renard au point de traverser, mouille sa queue ; il n'y a pas de lieu bénéfique.
Cleary (1) : Être encore instable est développemental. Un petit renard, ayant presque traversé la rivière, mouille sa queue, ne réussit pas.
Cleary (2) : Être instable mène au succès. Un petit renard, presque traversé, mouille sa queue. Rien n'est gagné.
Wu :Mission non accomplie indique la pénétration. Un petit renard presque traversé la rivière, mais mouille sa queue. Rien n'est gagné.
L'Image
Legge : Feu sur l'eau -- l'image deAffaires inachevées. L'homme supérieur discrimine soigneusement parmi les qualités des choses, et les différentes positions qu'elles occupent naturellement.
Wilhelm : Feu sur l'eau : l'image de la condition avant la transition. Ainsi l'homme supérieur est prudent dans la différenciation des choses, afin que chacune trouve sa place.
Blofeld : Cet hexagramme symbolise le feu au-dessus de l'eau. L'homme supérieur prend soin de distinguer entre les choses avant de les arranger en ordre.
Liu : Le feu au-dessus de l'eau symbolise Avant l'achèvement. L'homme supérieur distingue soigneusement les choses, et les met à leur place appropriée.
Ritsema/Karcher : Feu situé au-dessus du ruisseau. Pas encore traversé. Un chun tzu utilise la considération pour marquer les êtres résidant de tous côtés.
Cleary (1) : Le feu est au-dessus de l'eau, pas encore stabilisé. Ainsi les personnes supérieures discernent soigneusement les choses et les gardent à leur place.
Cleary (2) : Feu sur l'eau – instable.
Wu : Il y a du feu au-dessus de l'eau ; c'est Mission non accomplie. Ainsi le jun zi fait une distinction soigneuse des choses et de leurs places appropriées d'être.
COMMENTAIRE
Confucius/Legge : Le progrès et le succès sont suggérés par la cinquième ligne magnétique à la place du dirigeant. Bien qu'il ait presque traversé le ruisseau, le jeune renard n'a pas encore échappé au milieu du danger et de la calamité. Mouiller sa queue signifie que la fin ne reflète pas l'intention du début. Bien que les places des différentes lignes ne soient pas celles qui leur conviennent, une ligne dynamique et une ligne magnétique répondent toujours l'une à l'autre.
Legge :Affaires inachevéesest l'inverse de Achèvement : cela signifie que l'accomplissement réussi de la question en cours n'a pas encore été réalisé ; la traversée du grand ruisseau est encore incomplète.
Certains ont souhaité que leI Chingse soit conclu par l'Achèvement, et que le dernier hexagramme nous ait laissé avec l'image des affaires humaines toutes mises en bon ordre. Mais cela n'aurait pas été en harmonie avec l'idée de changement. Encore et encore, il a été souligné que nous ne trouvons dans le livre aucune idée d'un état parfait et durable. Tout comme les saisons de l'année changent et poursuivent un cycle sans fin, il en est de même avec les phases de la société. Le règne de l'ordre a atteint son apogée et a décliné, et cet hexagramme nous appelle à renouveler la lutte pour remettre les choses en ordre. Il traite de la conduite nécessaire pour obtenir ce résultat.
Aucune des lignes de l'hexagramme n'est à sa place correcte -- toutes les lignes dynamiques sont dans des places magnétiques, et les lignes magnétiques sont dans des places dynamiques. En même temps, chacune d'elles a un corrélat approprié, donc il y a la possibilité d'un certain progrès.
Le symbole du renard suggère un manque de prudence de la part de ceux qui essaient de remédier aux désordres actuels. Ils échouent et se mettent ainsi dans le pétrin. La ligne deux représente cet état d'esprit -- il est dynamique dans une place magnétique au centre du trigramme du Péril. Il est agité, et attiré par son corrélat magnétique à la cinquième place, il sera imprudent en prenant des mesures. Le résultat de l'issue sera différent de ce qui était prévu au début.
Le trigramme de l'Eau est en dessous, et le Feu au-dessus, montrant comment les deux principes ne peuvent pas agir l'un sur l'autre de manière profitable. Cela symbolise la condition non régulée des affaires générales qui prévaut actuellement.
NOTES ET PARAPHRASES
Jugement : Bien que de nombreuses réalisations alimentent notre croissance, l'ego n'est que le facilitateur, pas l'acteur. Ignorer cette vérité crée des conséquences négatives : ne détruisez pas le Travail !
L'Homme Supérieur examine de manière critique la situation et re-vérifie ses priorités.
Cet hexagramme représente le temps avant le climax d'un cycle, tout comme la figure précédente symbolise le temps après le climax (et donc la transition vers un nouveau commencement). Le Travail n'est en aucun cas "presque terminé" -- les lignes correspondent toutes en tant que corrélats, mais chacune d'elles s'unit "à l'envers", pour ainsi dire. (Retournez l'hexagramme, et elles sont alors en parfaite corrélation.) Que l'homme supérieur "discrimine parmi les qualités des choses, et les différentes positions qu'elles occupent naturellement" signifie qu'il sait que les positions correctes des lignes (celles qu'elles "occupent naturellement") sont comme dans l'hexagramme numéro soixante-trois, pas celui-ci.
Cette "corrélation inversée des lignes" est sans doute une image juste de la relation des pensées et des sentiments dans la psyché humaine moyenne. Les stress de la vie sont ce qui finit par briser ces corrélats mal assortis à travers des cycles sans fin de stimulus et de réponse jusqu'à ce qu'ils s'unissent finalement correctement dans un "Achèvement du Grand Œuvre" hypothétique. Que cela soit un idéal plutôt qu'un objectif humainement atteignable est suggéré dans cette citation de Shao Yung :
Le principe de la Voie trouve son plein développement dans le Ciel ; le principe du Ciel, dans la Terre ; le principe de la Terre, dans les myriades de choses ; et celui des myriades de choses, dans l'homme. Celui qui sait comment les principes du Ciel, de la Terre et de toutes choses trouvent leur plein développement dans l'homme peut donner un plein développement à son peuple.
Pour toutes fins pratiques, il est plus sage d'aspirer à des achèvements atteignables et de réaliser que le "plein développement" du Travail est la responsabilité du Soi, pas de l'ego.
Aspirer à la perfection est un idéal élevé. Mais je dis : "Accomplissez quelque chose que vous êtes capable d'accomplir plutôt que de courir après ce que vous n'atteindrez jamais." Personne n'est parfait. Rappelez-vous le dicton : "Nul n'est bon, sinon Dieu seul" [Luc 18:19], et personne ne peut l'être. C'est une illusion. Nous pouvons modestement nous efforcer de nous accomplir et d'être aussi complets que possible en tant qu'êtres humains, et cela nous donnera suffisamment de problèmes. Jung -- Les conférences de Tavistock
Le Jugement suggère qu'avant tout climax ou résolution, il peut encore exister une quantité indéterminée de libre choix pour influencer le résultat -- seules les circonstances spécifiques peuvent suggérer combien ou peu. Comme toujours, les choix sont définis dans la structure de la situation. Le dirigeant magnétique à la cinquième place implique qu'un résultat favorable est possible, mais seulement par une perception claire et une volonté peut-il se réaliser.
L'interprétation conditionnelle (italiques en gras ajoutés) dans la traduction du Jugement de Legge et de Wilhelm est nécessaire pour que son texte ait du sens. Notez que Ritsema/Karcher définissent "Sans direction : Récolte" comme : "Aucun plan ou direction n'est avantageux ; pour tirer parti de la situation, ne pas imposer une direction aux événements." C'est une réponse oraculaire courante, et cela aiguise le sens ici. La ligne un décrit les conséquences négatives d'ignorer le message explicite du Jugement.