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covering line
What it is
The line sitting on top of a hidden line.
What it means
If it generates the hidden line, what is concealed can come out; if it controls it, it stays down.
Other terms in this group
- in the voidThe line is not currently in place.
- month-breakStruck head-on by the branch of the current month.
- entombedShut into a storehouse and unable to move.
- at extinctionSitting at the point in the cycle where the force runs out.
- hidden lineA relation that never appears openly in the hexagram, lying underneath one of the lines.