Hexagram 60 節 changing to hexagram 50 鼎
Changing lines (counted from the bottom): 1, 3, 4, 5, 6.
What to read
Five changing lines: read the one unchanged line of the resulting hexagram. (Rule set out by Zhu Xi in the Yixue qimeng.)
Hexagram 50 鼎, line 2
鼎有實，我仇有疾，不我能即，吉。
The second line, undivided, shows the caldron with the things (to be cooked) in it. (If its subject can say), 'My enemy dislikes me, but he cannot approach me' there will be good fortune.
The two hexagrams
Hexagram 60 節 — judgment
亨。苦節不可貞。
Kieh. intimates that (under its conditions) there will be progress and attainment. (But) if the regulations (which it prescribes) be severe and difficult, they cannot be permanent.
Hexagram 50 鼎 — judgment
元吉，亨。
Ting gives the intimation of great progress and success.
The changing lines of hexagram 60
| Line | Chinese | Legge |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 不出戶庭，无咎。 | The first line, undivided, shows its subject not quitting the courtyard outside his door. There will be no error. |
| 3 | 不節若，則嗟若，无咎。 | The third line, divided, shows its subject with no appearance of observing the (proper) regulations, in which case we shall see him lamenting. But there will be no one to blame (but himself). |
| 4 | 安節，亨。 | The fourth line, divided, shows its subject quietly and naturally (attentive to all) regulations. There will be progress and success. |
| 5 | 甘節，吉；往有尚。 | The fifth line, undivided, shows its subject sweetly and acceptably enacting his regulations. There will be good fortune. The onward progress with them will afford ground for admiration. |
| 6 | 苦節，貞凶，悔亡。 | The topmost line, divided, shows its subject enacting regulations severe and difficult. Even with firmness and correctness there will be evil. But though there will be cause for repentance, it will (by and by) disappear. |
English: James Legge (1882), public domain. Chinese: Zhou Yi.
Data: English Wikisource (Public domain texts; transcription CC BY-SA 4.0); Chinese Wikisource (Public domain texts; transcription CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.