64 hexagrams, mapped by situation · Hexagram 30 · Li

Li: You are the light, and nobody can keep up

This page describes a situation. It gives no verdict. The number, trigrams and inner hexagram are all checkable.
Answer first (self-contained)Li (hexagram 30, 离 over 离) describes this kind of situation: You are the light, and nobody can keep up. It does not predict anything and it does not decide for you. It does one thing: it makes visible which dynamic you are currently inside, so you can recognise whether you are in it. There are three ways to check. First, the situation itself: You are the light, and nobody can keep up. Second, three checkable facts below (the number, the two trigrams, and the inner hexagram). Third, the three steps at the bottom, and whether you have done any of them.

What situation this is

You are ahead, and you can see it clearly. You say it clearly too, and you are willing to lead. They cannot follow, or do not want to. You lower your expectations more than once, and in the end the energy you had for leading goes quiet.

Checkable facts

Number
Hexagram 30 of 64
Name
离 (Li)
Trigrams
离 over 离
Inner hexagram
The internal force is 大过
Reversed
Reversed hexagram: Kan
Inverted
Inverted hexagram: Li (points to itself; turning it over changes nothing)
Palace
离 (本宫)
Book
上经
Structure
离上离下
Seasonal phase
-
Law attached
容量 (secondary: 感应)
Position
Previous Kan, next Xian

How it differs from the neighbours

Previous hexagram Kan (hexagram 29) describes: You are still in the pit, and you have started to find a way.
Next hexagram Xian (hexagram 31) describes: You felt something, and you have not said it.
The inner hexagram (internal force) The inner hexagram is 大过. The situation on this page is what is visible; Da Guo inside Qian: the force is unbending, so lighting the way is done by holding on, and holding on has an end. is what has been going on inside it. They are different layers, and reading one as the other is the usual mistake.

Three steps you can take today

  1. Capacity is what has not been filled yet. What is already full cannot take anything new.
  2. Compress what you want to lead them into, down to one step they can do today.
  3. Am I waiting for a response, or using it to confirm that I was right?

Do just this today Today, give one person one step they can actually do. No reasoning attached.

Does this sound like you

How this path works, and where it breaksLi only becomes light over the four directions when someone else picks it up. So the next step is not more brightness from you. It is handing someone one step small enough that they can actually take it.
Inner hexagram: the internal forceDa Guo inside Qian: the force is unbending, so lighting the way is done by holding on, and holding on has an end.
What this hexagram does not doThis does not tell you to keep shining, and it does not tell you to dim. It only says that when you are bright enough that people cannot look, you are no longer leading anything.
Most likely misuseThe easiest misuse is reading it as there must be somebody who understands. Li requires light to pass to light. Light that nobody takes up is not lighting the four directions.

Sources for this page

Data source
周易深度解析与蒸馏_v3 · 卦义表
Number, trigrams, inner hexagram, reversed, inverted, palace and seasonal phase all come from the original text and can be checked.
Who wrote the situation descriptions
Original to this project
Situation names, signals, today's step, micro-action and the core question were written for this project. They are not from the original text and are not an authoritative reading of it.
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