I Ching Hexagram 48: Above K’an the abysmal, Water   Below Sun the Gentle, Wind Wood is below, water above. The wood goes down into the earth to bring up water. The image derives from the pole-and-bucket well of ancient China. The wood represents not the buckets, which in ancient… Continue Reading Exploring Hexagram 48: The Well Meaning and Interpretation

Hexagram 47:Above Tui the Joyous, Lake   Below K’an the abysmal, Water The lake is above, water below; the lake is empty, dried up. Exhaustion is expressed in yet another way: at the top, a dark line is holding down two light line; below, a light line is hemmed in… Continue Reading iChing 47: Oppression (Exhaustion) -Meaning and Interpretation

Hexagram 46:Above K’un the Receptive, Earth   Below Sun the Gentle, Wind, Wood. The lower trigram, Sun, represents wood, and the upper, K’un, means the earth. Linked with this is the idea that wood in the earth grows upward. In contrast to the meaning of Chin, Progress (35), this pushing… Continue Reading IChing Hexagram 46 Pushing Upward:Meaning and Interpretation

Hexagram 45 : Above Tui the Joyous, Lake   Below K’un the Receptive, Earth This hexagram is related in form and meaning to Pi, Holding Together (8). In the latter, water is over the earth; here a lake is over the earth. But since the lake is a place where… Continue Reading Iching 45 meaning explained: Gathering Together (Massing)

Hexagram 44 – Coming to Meet：Above Ch’ien the Creative, Heaven   Below Sun the Gentle, Wind. This hexagram indicates a situation in which the principle of darkness, after having been eliminated, furtively and unexpectedly obtrudes again from within and below. Of its own accord the female principle comes to meet… Continue Reading Meaning of IChing Hexagram 44:Kou / Coming to Meet

Hexagram 43:Above Tui the Joyous, Lake   Below Ch’ien the Creative, Heaven.This hexagram signifies on the one hand a break-through after a long accumulation of tension, as a swollen river breaks through its dikes, or in the manner of a cloudburst. On the other hand, applied to human conditions, it… Continue Reading IChing hexagram 43 explained: Kuai / Break-through

I Ching Hexagram 42：Above Sun the Gentle, Wind   Below Chen the Arousing, Thunder The idea of increase is expressed in the fact that the strong lowest line of the upper trigram has sunk down and taken its place under the lower trigram. This conception also expresses the fundamental idea… Continue Reading Exploring Hexagram 42: I / Increase

Hexagram 41: Above Ken Keeping Still, Mountain   Below Tui the Joyous, Lake. This hexagram represents a decrease of the lower trigram in favor of the upper, because the third line, originally strong, has moved up to the top, and the top line, originally weak, has replaced it. What is… Continue Reading IChing Hexagram Meanings:Hexagram 41 – Decrease explained

Hexagram 40 – Deliverance：Above Chen the Arousing, Thunder. Below K’an the abysmal, Water Here the movement goes out of the sphere of danger. The obstacle has been removed, the difficulties are being resolved. Deliverance is not yet achieved; it is just in its beginning, and the hexagram represents its various… Continue Reading IChing hexagram 40 divination: Deliverance explained

Hexagram 38 – K’uei / Opposition : Above Li the Clinging, Flame.  Below Tui the Joyous, Lake This hexagram is composed of the trigram Li above, i.e., flame, which burns upward, and Tui below, i.e., the lake, which seeps downward. These two movements are indirect contrast. Furthermore, Li is the… Continue Reading IChing Hexagram 38 Opposition:Meaning and Interpretation