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Hexagram 32 恒 changing to hexagram 49 革

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Changing lines (counted from the bottom): 1, 2, 5.

What to read

Three changing lines: read the judgments of the original and the resulting hexagram; the original is the main one. (Rule set out by Zhu Xi in the Yixue qimeng.)

Judgment of hexagram 32 恒

恆:亨,无咎。利貞,利有攸往。

Hăng indicates successful progress and no error (in what it denotes). But the advantage will come from being firm and correct; and movement in any direction whatever will be advantageous.

Judgment of hexagram 49 革

已日乃孚,元亨。利貞。悔亡。

(What takes place as indicated by) Ko is believed in only after it has been accomplished. There will be great progress and success. Advantage will come from being firm and correct. (In that case) occasion for repentance will disappear.

The two hexagrams

Hexagram 32 恒 — judgment

恆:亨,无咎。利貞,利有攸往。

Hăng indicates successful progress and no error (in what it denotes). But the advantage will come from being firm and correct; and movement in any direction whatever will be advantageous.

Hexagram 49 革 — judgment

已日乃孚,元亨。利貞。悔亡。

(What takes place as indicated by) Ko is believed in only after it has been accomplished. There will be great progress and success. Advantage will come from being firm and correct. (In that case) occasion for repentance will disappear.

The changing lines of hexagram 32

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1浚恆,貞凶,无攸利。The first line, divided, shows its subject deeply (desirous) of long continuance. Even with firm correctness there will be evil; there will be no advantage in any way.
2悔亡。The second line, undivided, shows all occasion for repentance disappearing.
5恆其德,貞,婦人吉,夫子凶。The fifth line, divided, shows its subject continuously maintaining the virtue indicated by it. In a wife this will be fortunate; in a husband, evil.

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

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