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Hexagram Forty-Three

Breakthrough

The lake risen to heaven: the resolute, public clearing of a last resistance.

Dui: an open marsh
Upper trigram · Dui
Qian: open sky
Lower trigram · Qian

Five strong lines rise beneath one final yin — the cloudburst hexagram, resolution at the point of overflow. Breakthrough concerns the last stand of an old weakness or arrangement, and how to end it: openly, by declaration in the right court, without secret means and without hatred. Its counsel adds a discipline — be strict with the fault, not obsessed with the person, and arm against your own lapse even at the hour of clearing.

On wealth

Resolve the lingering drag — the bad clause, the tolerated leak — formally and in the open, then close the matter.

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