Retiring in due seasonRetreat
Retreat is not defeat; it is another kind of advance.
Dun: two yin growing below, four yang above. The yin quietly lengthens; the yang slowly recedes. Dun is not being pushed out — it is seeing that the season has passed and stepping away on your own. Leave when it is time, without waiting to be asked, without explaining why. Behind every great achievement stands a stretch of Dun — not to vanish, but to return.
The lines grade the retreat three ways: a good retreat, an admirable one, an ample and unburdened one — the same word leave across three levels. The measure of a withdrawal is how much composure remains in you as you go.
Practice This week, exit one thing that has drained you for ages — even just a one-week pause. No explanations, no follow-up arrangements.