Hexagram 44 姤 changing to hexagram 40 解

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Changing lines (counted from the bottom): 3, 5, 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 44 姤

女壯，勿用取女。

Kâu shows a female who is bold and strong. It will not be good to marry (such) a female.

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.

The two hexagrams

Hexagram 44 姤 — judgment

女壯，勿用取女。

Kâu shows a female who is bold and strong. It will not be good to marry (such) a female.

Hexagram 40 解 — judgment

利西南，无所往，其來復吉。有攸往，夙吉。

The changing lines of hexagram 44

Line	Chinese	Legge
3	臀无膚，其行次且，厲，无大咎。	The third line, undivided, shows one from whose buttocks the skin has been stripped so that he walks with difficulty. The position is perilous, but there will be no great error.
5	以杞包瓜，含章，有隕自天。	The fifth line, undivided, (shows its subject as) a medlar tree overspreading the gourd (beneath it). If he keep his brilliant qualities concealed, (a good issue) will descend (as) from Heaven.
6	姤其角，吝，无咎。	The sixth line, undivided, shows its subject receiving others on his horns. There will be occasion for regret, but there will be no error.

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

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