K'un / The Receptive
above: K'un The Receptive, Earth
below: K'un The Receptive, Earth
The topmost [six], divided, (shows) fighting in the wild. Their blood is purple and yellow.
See the note on the sixth line of Hexagram #1. What is there said to be 'beyond the proper limits' takes place here 'in the wild'. The humble subject of the divided line is transformed into a dragon, and fights with the true dragon, the subject of the undivided line. They fight and bleed, and their blood is of the color proper to heaven or the sky, and the color proper to the Earth.