King's Kung-Fu& Tai Chi

Hexagram 35 晉 changing to hexagram 12 否

jìn
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Changing line (counted from the bottom): 5.

What to read

One changing line: read the text of that line in the original hexagram. (Rule set out by Zhu Xi in the Yixue qimeng.)

Hexagram 35 晉, line 5

悔亡,矢得勿恤,往吉无不利。

The fifth line, divided, shows how all occasion for repentance disappears (from its subject). (But) let him not concern himself about whether he shall fail or succeed. To advance will be fortunate, and in every way advantageous.

The two hexagrams

Hexagram 35 晉 — judgment

康侯用錫馬蕃庶,晝日三接。

In Zin we see a prince who secures the tranquillity (of the people) presented on that account with numerous horses (by the king), and three times in a day received at interviews.

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 35

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5悔亡,矢得勿恤,往吉无不利。The fifth line, divided, shows how all occasion for repentance disappears (from its subject). (But) let him not concern himself about whether he shall fail or succeed. To advance will be fortunate, and in every way advantageous.

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

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