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Hexagram 22 賁 changing to hexagram 10 履

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Changing lines (counted from the bottom): 2, 3, 4, 5.

What to read

Four changing lines: read the two unchanged lines of the resulting hexagram; the lower one is the main one. (Rule set out by Zhu Xi in the Yixue qimeng.)

Hexagram 10 履, line 1

素履,往无咎。

The first line, undivided, shows its subject treading his accustomed path. If he go forward, there will be no error.

Hexagram 10 履, line 6

視履考詳,其旋元吉。

The sixth line, undivided, tells us to look at (the whole course) that is trodden, and examine the presage which that gives. If it be complete and without failure, there will be great good fortune.

The two hexagrams

Hexagram 22 賁 — judgment

亨。小利有攸往。

Pî indicates that there should be free course (in what it denotes). There will be little advantage (however) if it be allowed to advance (and take the lead).

Hexagram 10 履 — judgment

履虎尾,不咥人,亨。

(Lî suggests the idea of) one treading on the tail of a tiger, which does not bite him. There will be progress and success.

The changing lines of hexagram 22

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2賁其須。The second line, divided, shows one adorning his beard.
3賁如濡如,永貞吉。The third line, undivided, shows its subject with the appearance of being adorned and bedewed (with rich favours). But let him ever maintain his firm correctness, and there will be good fortune.
4賁如皤如,白馬翰如,匪寇婚媾。The fourth line, divided, shows one looking as if adorned, but only in white. As if (mounted on) a white horse, and furnished with wings, (he seeks union with the subject of the first line), while (the intervening third pursues), not as a robber, but intent on a matrimonial alliance.
5賁於丘園,束帛戔戔,吝,終吉。The fifth line, divided, shows its subject adorned by (the occupants of) the heights and gardens. He bears his roll of silk, small and slight. He may appear stingy; but there will be good fortune in the end.

English: James Legge (1882), public domain. Chinese: Zhou Yi.

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