Maintain Affluence: G6

Affluence via Dynamism

At this point, you look around yourself and assess your wealth. Not wealth in terms of money in the bank, but wealth in terms of the way you live, your home and garden, your clothes, your car, your vacations and more: taken together this defines your standard of living.

Wealth at any level cannot be taken for granted: it requires continual effort.

Periodic pentadic impacts become continual effort by adding one adjacent monad to form 2 hexadic groups, each of which represents a generator of dynamism.

So the function of the hexads is to protect your standard of living,

The qualifier here, related to perspective-centredness, is proposed as «dispassionately». This is not easy because well-being is closely tied to wealth. However, there is no right or wrong level of wealth and you must start from where you are.

Comparing your wealth with others ends up being the criterion that most affects contentment. There is a wide range of wealth that can be satisfactory, and comparisons can easily become too emotional. To try to "keep up with the Jones" is to be motivated by envy—perennially dissatisfied and possibly over-indebted because appearances rather than necessity and practicality come to dominate decisions.

Self-assertion here is expressed as defiance because you are engaging with, possibly taking on, the dominating impersonal social system, an indifferent world, indeed fate and destiny itself.

The 2 Hexadic Groups

G61: Profit from Opportunities

Function: To develop financial and other benefits from emergent situations.

There are always opportunities around you, but you want to be as sure as possible about their potential benefit or you may get in trouble and your standard of living will fall rather than rise.

To be safe, the lower 6 means of benefit all need to be activated in the appropriate way as follows:

Analyse (CL6-g6) the situation dispassionately because your preferences are irrelevant and you must be sure that this is indeed a profitable opportunity.

Develop reliable personal relationships (CL5-g5) because you will need to call on them for diverse reasons, possibly at short notice.

Represent your group (CL4-g4) cooperatively because most initiatives that can make a difference will involve others.

Promote your expertise (CL3-g3) passionately because you and others will expect to depend on that to realize the opportunity.

Use your strength (CL2-g2) resolutely in order to follow through on the opportunity and deal with setbacks.

Others are likely to be seeing the same opportunity, so you will have to compete to be sure of financial success (CL1-g1).

Q: Why isn't "be realistic-CL7" included?

AClosed: If you are brutally realistic, you will become too aware that expertise (art) is long, life is short, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, and judgement difficult. In short, it's all too hard and the best thing is surely to accept the status quo and do nothing.

G62: Counter Misfortune

Function: To re-position yourself when events cause serious and potentially persistent disadvantage.

Adverse events are always likely. They may be due to mistakes that you have made or due to negligence or criminality of others; but often they are simply what fate has in store for you.

Misfortune does not exist to be borne in misery, it is there to be overcome. To recover, the upper 6 means of benefit all need to be activated in the appropriate way as follows:

Be dispassionately realistic (CL7-g6) about the situation because any distortion based on wishes or preferences will likely set you on the wrong course—the last thing you want when faced with misfortune.

Analyse (CL6-g5) situations reliably which means calling in professionals or getting others to check your thinking and calculations. You want to be on solid ground as you move forward to improve matters rationally.

Develop personal relationships (CL5-g4) cooperatively because you will need to work closely with others to resolve the situation.

Passionatelyrepresent your group (CL4-g3) because if you are suffering then so are others in your group and they need to see you are concerned for them as well as for yourself.

Promote your expertise (CL3-g2) resolutely because you and others will expect to depend on that to recover from the misfortune.

Use your strengths (CL2-g1) competitively in order to get first in line for whatever external help or resources are available.

Q: Why isn't "secure your finances-CL1" included?

AClosed: When disaster strikes—a serious accident, a child kidnapped, your business shut down—you may well have financial concerns, but you cannot be thinking about improving your financial position. To rescue the situation, you may well need to dip into savings, or even go into debt.

Transition

By maintaining affluence you can be assured that you are doing all that is necessary in the present. However, there is a future out there that is intrinsically unforeseeable, and there are aspirations and ambitions within yourself that are possibly inchoate and even disturbing.

The final challenge therefore is to be open to the future.

This is made possible by adding one additional and final adjacent level to form the heptad.

Originally posted: 10-July-2025.