Yarrow / Source Notes / 2026-07-17
Yarrow paired source note · 2026-07-17
Compare Hexagram 5 Xu (Waiting) with Hexagram 35 Jin (Progress) as a line-by-line opposite pair, without turning contrast into prediction.
Waiting. With sincerity held in the heart, there is brilliant success. Persevering in uprightness brings good fortune. It furthers one to cross the great water.
Water is the source that sustains life. Laozi said: "The highest good is like water; water benefits all things without contending.
Progress. The prosperous prince is presented with many horses by the Son of Heaven, and in a single day is received thrice in audience. The Tuan says: Progress means advancing, as brightness emerges above the earth. Compliant and clinging to the great light, the yielding advances and moves upward — thus "the prosperous prince is presented with many horses, and in a single day is received thrice in audience." The Image says: Brightness coming forth above the earth: this is Progress.
The hexagram Jin means "advance," and this meaning lies in its image of the sun rising above the earth.
The local structured corpus records Hexagram 5's opposite as Hexagram 35, and Hexagram 35's opposite as Hexagram 5. Every line changes polarity across this pair. Use that structural fact to compare conditions, not to label one side good and the other bad.
Make two columns headed Xu and Jin. Under each, copy one phrase from its reference translation and one observable condition from the situation you are studying. Circle the condition that would have to change before the other column became more relevant. Choose one reversible step and a review date.
An opposite pair is not a before-and-after promise. Xu does not automatically become Jin, and the pair does not decide which person or outcome is correct. It is a disciplined contrast for closer observation.
The two reference translations and context notes come from Yarrow's bundled structured Zhouyi authority layer. The opposite-pair relation comes from the same local corpus. This comparison is not a fresh cast or a forecast.