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豫卦

Hexagram 16 · Enthusiasm (Yu) (雷地豫)

Judgment(Original text)

利建侯行师。

Hexagram structure

Upper trigram
震(Thunder) · Wood
Lower trigram
坤(Earth) · Earth
Mutual hexagram
蹇 · 水山蹇
Reversed (zong)
谦 · 地山谦
Opposite (cuo)
小畜 · 风天小畜

How to read changing lines

When a cast produces moving lines (three of a kind with coins, or a moving line in Mei Hua time casting), classical rules set the priority. Following Zhu Xi's Yixue Qimeng:

  • One line movesRead the moving line's text of this hexagram as primary
  • Two lines moveRead both moving lines' texts, the upper one takes precedence
  • Three lines moveCombine the Judgments of this hexagram and the changed one (ben as zhen, changed as hui)
  • Four lines moveRead the two unmoved lines' texts of the changed hexagram, the lower takes precedence
  • Five lines moveRead the single unmoved line's text of the changed hexagram
  • Six lines moveQian and Kun use their special 'Yong' texts; other hexagrams read the changed hexagram's Judgment

The Line texts are listed in full below.

Lines(Original text)

  1. Line 1初六:鸣豫,凶。
  2. Line 2六二:介于石,不终日,贞吉。
  3. Line 3六三:盱豫,悔。迟有悔。
  4. Line 4九四:由豫,大有得。勿疑。朋盍簪。
  5. Line 5六五:贞疾,恒不死。
  6. Line 6上六:冥豫,成有渝,无咎。

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