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Imagery in the structure

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Does anyone else marvel at the beauty of the Yi's structural imagery?

All the way from:
Solid line representing male, firm..
Yielding line representing female, yielding...

To the trigrams:

-- --
-----
----- the inviting lake. let's splash in the shallows at the top.

-----
-- --
-- -- Yep, it's a mountain alright. sits there and is hard on top.

-- --
-- --
----- ouch it shocks when the firm bottom hits you.

-- --
-----
-- -- that poor man in the middle has fallen in and is drowning.

-----
-- --
----- Ever notice how a flame is hot around the edges,
but you could pass your hand through the center without harm.

...etc

To the many (all?) hexagrams that look like the subject matter,
examples: 27 hungry mouth, 44 collapsing structure. the rain of release... etc



Well, I do.
And it got me thinking...

Ever notice the visual similarities between the Kan, 29 and 62 structures?

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Kan x2 makes 29.
Two firm lines flanked by two yielding lines on each side makes 62.

To me 62 looks like a supersized or amplified trigram of Kan.

Is the danger in 62 is even larger than 29?
I think it is hence the advice to fly low instead of high, as opposed to sincerity powering you through it.

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