Hexagram 40 解 changing to hexagram 21 噬嗑

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Changing lines (counted from the bottom): 1, 2, 6.

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 21 噬嗑

亨。利用獄。

Shih Ho indicates successful progress (in the condition of things which it supposes). It will be advantageous to use legal constraints.

The two hexagrams

Hexagram 40 解 — judgment

利西南，无所往，其來復吉。有攸往，夙吉。

Hexagram 21 噬嗑 — judgment

亨。利用獄。

Shih Ho indicates successful progress (in the condition of things which it supposes). It will be advantageous to use legal constraints.

The changing lines of hexagram 40

Line	Chinese	Legge
1	无咎。	The first line, divided, shows that its subject will commit no error.
2	田獲三狐，得黃矢，貞吉。	The second line, undivided, shows its subject catch, in hunting, three foxes, and obtain the yellow ( = golden) arrows. With firm correctness there will be good fortune.
6	公用射隼，于高墉之上，獲之，无不利。	In the sixth line, divided, we see a feudal prince (with his bow) shooting at a falcon on the top of a high wall, and hitting it. (The effect of his action) will be in every way advantageous.

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

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