Darkening of the Light · Di Huo Ming Yi
Darkening of the Light — the bright that must learn to hide its flame.
The traditional reading
Hexagram 36 is the sun going down in a bad time — when clarity must be concealed to survive. The wise person does not fight the dark with noise but preserves inner light and outer composure. A leader in the shade keeps the teaching alive quietly and waits for the sun to rise again.
Structure of the hexagram
- Lower trigram: Fire (Li) · Fire
- Upper trigram: Earth (Kun) · Earth
- House: Water (Kan) · Water
- Text in the original Chinese: 地火明夷