Hexagram 22 賁 changing to hexagram 12 否
Changing lines (counted from the bottom): 1, 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 12 否, line 2
包承，小人吉，大人否。亨。
The second line, divided, shows its subject patient and obedient. To the small man (comporting himself so) there will be good fortune. If the great man (comport himself) as the distress and obstruction require, he will have success.
Hexagram 12 否, line 6
傾否，先否後喜。
The sixth line, undivided, shows the overthrow (and removal of) the condition of distress and obstruction. Before this there was that condition. Hereafter there will be joy.
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 12 否 — judgment
否之匪人，不利君子貞，大往小來。
In Phî there is the want of good understanding between the (different classes of) men, and its indication is unfavourable to the firm and correct course of the superior man. We see in it the great gone and the little come.
The changing lines of hexagram 22
| Line | Chinese | Legge |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 賁其趾，舍車而徒。 | The first line, undivided, shows one adorning (the way of) his feet. He can discard a carriage and walk on foot. |
| 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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