Auxiliary
Position 3 of 8 · ☳ 震 Zhèn
Sun Wukong (the heart-monkey)
One of the eight positions every type fills. A different function sits here in each type; below is what the position itself does, how it fails, and its eight possible hexagrams.
Requires more engagement from the ego than the dominant: more conspicuous, more tiring, the most draining function. An adaptation against the part of existence the personality is less interested in but must satisfy. Noticed and yet unessential (the direct opposite of the primitive: unnoticed and yet essential). In Jung's terms, secondary: 'valid only in so far as it serves the leading function, without making any claim to the autonomy of its own principle.'
AuxiliaryHow to read it
Read via the tires-heuristic: the function they can run competently but which visibly depletes them is the auxiliary, not the dominant. The outside window sees this seat FIRST: the standing observer-trap.
The two failure directions
Every position fails in two directions: too much control (walled, refused) or too little (overrun, erupted). The two feed each other in a loop; the correction is always the opposite motion.
The eruption: The Wall hollows into the Counterfeit: competence sealed off from the vision it was built to serve keeps only its gestures, and the gestures run on with nothing under them.
The crackdown returns: Exposure reverses it: caught performing hollow craft, the type seals the work off harder than before, and the perimeter thickens.
too much control · correct by yield
competence over-built into a defensive perimeter; the cross to the opposite attitude dropped; the work sealed off
too little control · correct by hold
the auxiliary goes slack: gestures performed with no dominant vision under; mimicry answering to no inner line (opens the way to the Loop)
The arc
Arc 1: von Franz's decade of imitation
The four arcs and sixteen conditions in full →
The eight hexagrams of this position
Each function that can sit here forms its own hexagram (function trigram over this position's trigram), shared by the two types named.
