Next week · Week of Monday, November 2
The Army
You will march the army toward the horizon with no objective. Today the seasoned leader has one. Name it before the first step or the mass dissolves in the field.
I Ching: Next week
Hexagram 7 has one firm line among five yielding ones, and over a week its lines read as a short course in organisation. The first insists on order at the outset; if the arrangements are loose, little that follows will hold. The second puts the trusted person in the middle of the work, backed again and again from above. The third and fifth describe what goes wrong when direction is split between too many hands. The fourth is the one people forget: pulling back in good order counts as no blame. This week, if you are running anything with other people, settle early who decides what. If a plan stalls, an orderly step back is allowed. The top line looks past the result to who is given lasting responsibility, and advises against rewarding the opportunists.