Hexagram 59 渙 changing to hexagram 35 晉
Changing lines (counted from the bottom): 2, 4, 5.
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 59 渙
亨,王假有廟,利涉大川,利貞。
Hwân intimates that (under its conditions) there will be progress and success. The king goes to his ancestral temple; and it will be advantageous to cross the great stream. It will be advantageous to be firm and correct.
Judgment of hexagram 35 晉
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.
The two hexagrams
Hexagram 59 渙 — judgment
亨,王假有廟,利涉大川,利貞。
Hwân intimates that (under its conditions) there will be progress and success. The king goes to his ancestral temple; and it will be advantageous to cross the great stream. It will be advantageous to be firm and correct.
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.
The changing lines of hexagram 59
| Line | Chinese | Legge |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 渙奔其机,悔亡。 | The second line, undivided, shows its subject, amid the dispersion, hurrying to his contrivance (for security). All occasion for repentance will disappear. |
| 4 | 渙其群,元吉。渙有丘,匪夷所思。 | The fourth line, divided, shows its subject scattering the (different) parties (in the state); which leads to great good fortune. From the dispersion (he collects again good men standing out, a crowd) like a mound, which is what ordinary men would not have thought of. |
| 5 | 渙汗其大號,渙王居,无咎。 | The fifth line, undivided, shows its subject amidst the dispersion issuing his great announcements as the perspiration (flows from his body). He scatters abroad (also) the accumulations in the royal granaries. There will be no error. |
English: James Legge (1882), public domain. Chinese: Zhou Yi.
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