Hexagram 35 晉 changing to hexagram 28 大過
Changing lines (counted from the bottom): 2, 3, 5, 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 28 大過, line 1
藉用白茅，无咎。
The first line, divided, shows one placing mats of the white mâo grass under things set on the ground. There will be no error.
Hexagram 28 大過, line 4
棟隆，吉。有它吝。
The fourth line, undivided, shows a beam curving upwards. There will be good fortune. If (the subject of it) looks for other (help but that of line one), there will be cause for regret.
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 28 大過 — judgment
棟橈，利有攸往，亨。
Tâ Kwo suggests to us a beam that is weak. There will be advantage in moving (under its conditions) in any direction whatever; there will be success.
The changing lines of hexagram 35
| Line | Chinese | Legge |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 晉如，愁如，貞吉。受茲介福，于其王母。 | The second line, divided, shows its subject with the appearance of advancing, and yet of being sorrowful. If he be firm and correct, there will be good fortune. He will receive this great blessing from his grandmother. |
| 3 | 眾允，悔亡。 | The third line, divided, shows its subject trusted by all (around him). All occasion for repentance will disappear. |
| 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. |
| 6 | 晉其角，維用伐邑，厲吉无咎，貞吝。 | The topmost line, undivided, shows one advancing his horns. But he only uses them to punish the (rebellious people of his own) city. The position is perilous, but there will be good fortune. (Yet) however firm and correct he may be, there will be occasion for regret. |
English: James Legge (1882), public domain. Chinese: Zhou Yi.
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