Splitting Apart: it does not further one to go anywhere. One last strong line remains at the top; beneath it, all has yielded — the mountain crumbling onto the plain, the house whose supports are gone, the season when inferior forces prevail not through battle but through erosion. Action now is useless; the time itself must complete its turning.
The mountain rests on the earth: those above can ensure their position only by giving generously to those below. When structures split, the wise thicken the base — generosity downward is the only architecture that survives collapse.
Something in your situation is collapsing, and the oracle's counsel is the hardest kind: do not act. This is erosion's hour — intervening spends you without saving the structure, and ambition launched now lands on crumbling ground. Instead, hold still, protect your core, give support downward to what will outlast the fall, and let the splitting complete itself. The lore of this hexagram is its comfort: the top line is a great fruit uneaten — its seed survives the rot, and Return (the next hexagram) is already written. Endure; the turning is near.
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