革卦

Judgment（Original text）

已日乃孚，元亨利贞，悔亡。

Hexagram structure

Upper trigram

兑（Lake） · Metal

Lower trigram

离（Fire） · Fire

Mutual hexagram

姤 · 天风姤

Reversed (zong)

鼎 · 火风鼎

Opposite (cuo)

蒙 · 山水蒙

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初九：巩用黄牛之革。
2. Line 2六二：已日乃革之，征吉，无咎。
3. Line 3九三：征凶，贞厉，革言三就，有孚。
4. Line 4九四：悔亡，有孚改命，吉。
5. Line 5九五：大人虎变，未占有孚。
6. Line 6上六：君子豹变，小人革面，征凶，居贞吉。