ABSTRACT
The hexagram represents a great ridgepole or beam that is resting on slight and inadequate supports. The hexagram's structure emphasizes the theme of pushing resources as far as they can go, in that it resembles a candle being burned at both ends. The individual or situation represented by this hexagram is over-loaded and something needs to be reduced or released. This hexagram is associated with the theme of caring for the dead and the changing customs in China relating to above- or below-ground burial. For the individual who is facing this exceptional time and its tasks, part of the remedy may lie in looking at what needs to be 'buried', allowed to die. This is a precarious, even dangerous, situation that must be remedied at once if collapse is to be avoided. If yin energies are repeatedly asked to perform in the same way as yang energies, then the outcome will be the same – the danger of collapse.
