Hexagram 36 · Line 6
Darkening of the Light — 上九
Ming Yi · Shang Jiu
上九 · Shang Jiu
The Line
Not light, but darkness. First he climbed up to heaven, then he plunged down into the depths of the earth.
Interpretation
Here the high point of darkness is reached. The dark power had first been placed so high that it could injure all the good and light. But in the end it perishes through its own darkness, for evil must fall in the moment when it has completely overcome the good and thereby consumed the force to which, until then, it owed its existence.