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in the void
What it is
The line is not currently in place.
What it means
Not absent — not yet landed. It usually only counts for something once the day it leaves the void comes round.
Other terms in this group
- 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.
- covering lineThe line sitting on top of a hidden line.