Meng

Youthful Folly

Mountain over Water

THE JUDGEMENT
YOUTHFUL FOLLY has success.
It is not I who seek the young fool;
The young fool seeks me.
At the first oracle I inform him.
If he asks two or three times, it is importunity.
If he importunes, I give him no information.
Perseverence furthers.

THE IMAGE
A spring wells up at the foot of the mountain:
The image of YOUTH.
Thus the superior man fosters his character
By thoroughness in all that he does.

--The Book of Changes

mapped using the Sequence of Middle Heaven:

From Sacrificial Satisfaction to Depressed Parasitism:

No major changes are implied by this change. But it implies a fairly thorough cycle of minor changes, thus thoroughness. Sacrificial Satisfaction implies a success before the change. Depressed Parasitism implies at the end the well has given most of what it can give, leading to anger (importunity) at not getting more. Good match.

See also I Ching

— Scotus - 12 Feb 2004