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Outline of Hexagram 34

Aleister Crowley's Outline

Graphical Image of Hexagram 34 XXXIV
Dà Qiáng

This is a superficial analysis of this hexagram. Please let me know if you understand it, and if it helps you. If so, I can do the other 63 on similar lines, as a basis for research.

  1. Elemental Modification. Fire of Phallus
  2. Marriage attribution: Water + Water; Water weds Water
  3. The lines in pairs "Big Water"

Zodiacal attribution: Sol in Taurus

Note the union of those elements which we are used to call "contradictory". Phallus, sun, Fire against Water & Taurus(Earth)

But this is not all. The general meaning of the hexagram is
Abundance (of strength)

The Linear Comment:

  • Moves toes. This goes with Fire of Phallus.
  • ?
  • Mussolini & parable of same.
  • Opens fence without effort.
    Symbol of wagon & wheel. Big Water
  • Bad side of Water. (Sloth? Complacency.)
  • More same. Aries got stuck

    • Appendices I & II do not add much.

    Appendix III says the idea of Houses & Roofs (as opposed to caves and sleeping outdoors in summer) came from Dà Qiáng.

    Appendix VI implies that Dà Qiáng is teh state of Robustness which makes people restless, advance rashly (XXXV Tzin) and get wounded (XXXVI Ming I). There is much "perhaps" in this interpretation.

    In any case, all these meanings must be combined and distilled to one most clear Quintessence.

    Source: Cornelius & Cornelius: 1998: 32

    For a Daoist Persepective

    Graphical Image of Hexagram 34

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