Hexagram 30 離 changing to hexagram 19 臨
Changing lines (counted from the bottom): 2, 3, 4, 6.
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 19 臨, line 1
咸臨，貞吉。
The first line, undivided, shows its subject advancing in company (with the subject of the second line). Through his firm correctness there will be good fortune.
Hexagram 19 臨, line 5
知臨，大君之宜，吉。
The fifth line, divided, shows the advance of wisdom, such as befits the great ruler. There will be good fortune.
The two hexagrams
Hexagram 30 離 — judgment
利貞。亨。畜牝牛，吉。
Lî indicates that, (in regard to what it denotes), it will be advantageous to be firm and correct, and that thus there will be free course and success. Let (its subject) also nourish (a docility like that of) the cow, and there will be good fortune.
Hexagram 19 臨 — judgment
元亨。利貞。至于八月有凶。
Lin (indicates that under the conditions supposed in it) there will be great progress and success, while it will be advantageous to be firmly correct. In the eighth month there will be evil.
The changing lines of hexagram 30
| Line | Chinese | Legge |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 黃離，元吉。 | The second line, divided, shows its subject in his place in yellow. There will be great good fortune. |
| 3 | 日昃之離，不鼓缶而歌，則大耋之差，凶。 | The third line, undivided, shows its subject in a position like that of the declining sun. Instead of playing on his instrument of earthenware, and singing to it, he utters the groans of an old man of eighty. There will be evil. |
| 4 | 突如其來如，焚如，死如，棄如。 | The fourth line, undivided, shows the manner of its subject's coming. How abrupt it is, as with fire, with death, to be rejected (by all)! |
| 6 | 王用出征，有嘉折首，獲匪其醜，无咎。 | The topmost line, undivided, shows the king employing its subject in his punitive expeditions. Achieving admirable (merit), he breaks (only) the chiefs (of the rebels). Where his prisoners were not their associates, he does not punish. There will be no error. |
English: James Legge (1882), public domain. Chinese: Zhou Yi.
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