Inner Truth in Transitions

An ending tests whether your inside and outside are the same thing. The temptation is to hedge (line 1): commitment to the leaving kept partial, a private escape route warm, the choice made while a piece of you quietly bargains to undo it — every secret reservation a wall against the very steadiness this hexagram offers, and its cost is disquiet. Commit entire; the strength of your crossing is exactly as great as the commitment is clean. Watch, too, where your centre of gravity has gone (line 3): a self strung entirely to another's moods or to the world's opinion of your ending drums and weeps on their schedule. Recover your own centre — let the meaning of your passage rest on your relation to truth, not on the weather of any other heart.

A new life is built, at depth, by what you actually are — and inner truth communicates constantly beneath all presentation. Trust the crane's law (line 2): the crane calls unseen and its young answer, kind recognising kind across any distance; tend your hidden tone, nourish yourself on correct thoughts, and the companions and the shared cup of the new life come of themselves, called by what you are. As something real begins to fill, mind the moon nearly full (line 4): receive the abundance as light reflected from a higher source, claim no credit, and — like the team-horse that leaves its mate to pull true — release even good attachments where the new path requires singleness. And let inner truth be what links the new circle (line 5): correct yourself, seek no credit, and unity crystallises around the genuine.