Hexagram 40 解 changing to hexagram 11 泰

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Changing lines (counted from the bottom): 1, 3, 4.

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 40 解

利西南，无所往，其來復吉。有攸往，夙吉。

In (the state indicated by) Kieh advantage will be found in the south-west. If no (further) operations be called for, there will be good fortune in coming back (to the old conditions). If some operations be called for, there will be good fortune in the early conducting of them.

Judgment of hexagram 11 泰

小往大來，吉亨。

In Thâi (we see) the little gone and the great come. (It indicates that) there will be good fortune, with progress and success.

The two hexagrams

Hexagram 40 解 — judgment

利西南，无所往，其來復吉。有攸往，夙吉。

Hexagram 11 泰 — judgment

小往大來，吉亨。

In Thâi (we see) the little gone and the great come. (It indicates that) there will be good fortune, with progress and success.

The changing lines of hexagram 40

Line	Chinese	Legge
1	无咎。	The first line, divided, shows that its subject will commit no error.
3	負且乘，致寇至，貞吝。	The third line, divided, shows a porter with his burden, (yet) riding in a carriage. He will (only) tempt robbers to attack him. However firm and correct he may (try to) be, there will be cause for regret.
4	解而拇，朋至斯孚。	(To the subject of) the fourth line, undivided, (it is said), 'Remove your toes. Friends will (then) come, between you and whom there will be mutual confidence'

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

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