[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":542},["ShallowReactive",2],{"yijing-article-en-fu":3,"yijing-articles-list-en":227},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"category":212,"date":213,"description":214,"extension":215,"image":6,"imageAlt":6,"meta":216,"navigation":217,"order":218,"palaces":6,"path":219,"seo":220,"series":6,"sitemap":221,"star":6,"stem":222,"tags":223,"__hash__":226},"content\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Ffu.md","I Ching Fu Meaning: Hexagram 24 Explained",null,{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":200},"minimark",[10,14,17,22,25,28,36,39,45,51,55,58,61,64,67,71,74,77,80,83,87,90,97,103,109,115,121,124,128,131,134,137,156,160,165,168,173,176,181,184,189,192],[11,12,13],"p",{},"Draw Fu 復 and in class someone often exhales at once: the turn has come, I can charge.",[11,15,16],{},"That is only half right. Fu is indeed a turn. It is one yang just back under the earth, not already summer. The force is tender. The most right practice then is getting back on the correct path at once. The most wrong is treating a tender sprout as a forest, opening three battlefields at once.",[18,19,21],"h2",{"id":20},"earth-over-thunder-thunder-in-the-earth-yang-coming-back","Earth over Thunder: thunder in the earth, yang coming back",[11,23,24],{},"Fu is Earth over Thunder, Return. Upper Kun 坤, earth; lower Zhen 震, thunder. Thunder in the earth. One yang at the first line, five yins above. That bit of warmth in winter soil: this hexagram.",[11,26,27],{},"Do not reverse above and below. Some people read Fu as Mountain over Earth, Bo 剝. Bo is mountain on earth, five yins peeling up, only that one yang on top left. Fu is after peeling is finished, yang growing again from below. One is dropping; one is returning. Misread the image and you will charge when you should hold, and when you should return still think you are dropping.",[11,29,30,31,35],{},"The ",[32,33,34],"em",{},"Xugua"," says: 「物不可以終盡，剝窮上反下，故受之以復。」 Things cannot peel to nothing. Peel to the end, yang falls from above, returns below: that is Fu. So Fu is not empty good luck. It is the bit still left after peeling. If you did not leave a ripe fruit before, the yang here will be very empty.",[11,37,38],{},"The judgment is wide: 「復，亨。出入無疾，朋來無咎。反復其道，七日來復。利有攸往。」 It opens. Going out and in without illness; friends come, no blame. Return again and again on its path; in seven days it returns. Beneficial to go forth. Bo is not beneficial to go forth; Fu is beneficial to go forth. One word, “not,” different, and the sequence flips. But “going” is walking on the correct path, not walking on desire. Going out and in without illness: this coming and going does not hurt much. Friends come, no blame: the right people will come back. Return again and again on its path: the road has to walk back that original correct one, not open a more stimulating one.",[11,40,30,41,44],{},[32,42,43],{},"Tuan"," says Fu opening is 「剛反」, the firm returning. 「動而以順行」: Zhen below is movement, Kun above following; move but walk along. Seven days to return: Heaven’s motion. Does Fu see the heart of Heaven and Earth? Heaven and Earth’s heart is this bit of yang that will not let life be cut clean.",[11,46,30,47,50],{},[32,48,49],{},"Xiang"," says: 「雷在地中，復。先王以至日閉關，商旅不行，后不省方。」 Thunder in the earth, Fu. The former kings, on the solstice, closed the pass; merchants did not travel; the ruler did not inspect the regions. One yang too tender: take it out to blow and it will go out. Draw Fu and feast every day, announce great plans every day: blowing the yang just back, back again.",[18,52,54],{"id":53},"career-and-wealth-return-to-the-correct-not-charge-wildly","Career and wealth: “return to the correct,” not “charge wildly”",[11,56,57],{},"Ask about career and draw Fu: overall you can move, but the first move is returning to the proper matter. Contacting a stopped client again, picking up interrupted homework, changing a wrong process back: all Fu. A new brand, new market, new leverage: often still early. Beneficial to go forth: going is the correct road, not the fresh.",[11,59,60],{},"The most expensive tuition then is “I waited for this yang a long time; I will take it all back at once.” Yang has just returned; you want half a year’s loss back at once: making Fu into a new Bo. Plans can be written, people seen; the step should be small. First make the proper work familiar; first let the right people come back. Friends come, no blame: wait for the right people, not flipping the whole contact list.",[11,62,63],{},"For wealth, Fu is like qi in the earth again; income will start to loosen, but it is not a harvest year. Good for clearing old accounts, collecting what should be collected, warming small business that can still be done. Large expansion, staking principal at once into a new project: does not fit the hexagram. Seven days to return: the point is a cycle, not doubling tomorrow. Give it a coming-and-going of time. Do not dig it up every day to see if it has grown.",[11,65,66],{},"Fu’s six lines differ a long way in luck. The initial nine is best; the upper six most unlucky. In the middle there is resting return, frequent return, returning alone: attitude different, result different. Draw Fu and you must look at which line. Lost a moment and come back, and lost to the end and still not returning: a whole plate of luck apart.",[18,68,70],{"id":69},"love-you-can-turn-back-but-it-has-to-be-truly-back","Love: you can turn back, but it has to be truly back",[11,72,73],{},"Ask about love and draw Fu: common is an old person, old words, an old road. Contact after a breakup, speaking again after a cold war, first taking your own temper back: all Fu. Not fated reunion. In this stretch, “returning to correct treatment” is more useful than opening a new game.",[11,75,76],{},"If you are already together, Fu reminds: harm can stop; ritual can be picked up. Not-far return is best: words said heavy, taken back the same day — more useful than dragging three months then writing a long letter. Frequent return is also possible: changed and offend again, offend and change again — dangerous, but no blame. What you most fear is lost return: knowing it is wrong, still walking the crooked road, saying you are waiting for fate.",[11,78,79],{},"If you are single and draw Fu, an old person may appear. First ask whether this return is the correct path, or an addiction. The correct path is changing what was wrong then, then meeting. Addiction is lonely, so you dial. The judgment says return again and again on its path; the word path cannot be dropped. Using more new dates to flee old unfinished business is not Fu. It is starting another round of recklessness.",[11,81,82],{},"Workplace people and Fu: good for connecting a broken relationship — apologizing, returning a favor, talking a cooled cooperation again. No need for a great banquet, no need to publicly praise yourself for turning back. Yang is under the earth; the move should be small, the heart correct. People come, no blame. People have not come and you first issue a victory report: like opening the city gate at the winter solstice.",[18,84,86],{"id":85},"not-far-return-is-best-lost-return-is-most-unlucky","Not-far return is best; lost return is most unlucky",[11,88,89],{},"In class I teach Fu as “will you turn back.” The turn has just come; people most easily do two things: not take it as a thing, or celebrate too far. The lines wrote both ends.",[11,91,92,96],{},[93,94,95],"strong",{},"Initial nine: 不遠復，無祇悔，元吉."," Walked not far and come back. 祇 is great; no great regret, regret is not large. Draw this line: almost Fu’s cleanest luck. Error just starting, change at once. At work, a plan leans and you pull it back; in love, words heavy and you take them back. Do not wait for something to happen then return.",[11,98,99,102],{},[93,100,101],{},"Six in the second: 休復，吉."," Rest is beauty, resting because of a person. Yourself yielding, able to rely on yang like the initial nine coming back. Draw this line: luck is in “walking back the correct path with the right person.” Find the person still working, still holding correct. Do not invent a direction yourself in the dark.",[11,104,105,108],{},[93,106,107],{},"Six in the third: 頻復，厲無咎."," Frequent is again and again. Changed and offend again, offend and change again. Dangerous, tiring. No blame, because they still always know to return. Draw this line: do not think yourself motivational. Write down that point of repeating; offend one time less: then it is called return, not walking in place.",[11,110,111,114],{},[93,112,113],{},"Six in the fourth: 中行獨復."," Walking in the middle of the troop, yet returning yourself. Around still yin; only they walk toward yang. Draw this line: often the team has not woken, the family has not changed; you change first. You will be alone. Returning alone is not loftiness. The place is there; you cannot not return.",[11,116,117,120],{},[93,118,119],{},"Upper six: 迷復，凶，有災眚."," Lost and still not returning. Fu walked to the top and still lost: yang already used up, unluck is true unluck. Disaster from Heaven, fault you brought. Use it to move the army, and in the end a great defeat: going out, laying cards down, campaigning now will fail thoroughly, hard to turn in ten years. Draw the upper six: stop at once. Do not prove more, chase more, gamble a last round. Lost return and peeling the hut are relatives: both strangling the chance to come back yourself.",[11,122,123],{},"So when people say “I drew Fu, there is a turn,” ask again: are you not-far return, or lost return? The turn is there; the person does not return, and the turn is not yours.",[18,125,127],{"id":126},"in-class-i-have-students-do-three-steps-for-fu","In class I have students do three steps for Fu",[11,129,130],{},"First step, say the correct path you will return to. Return to what, exactly? To the proper work, a schedule, that person, not lying. If the name is unclear, Fu will return into another pit.",[11,132,133],{},"Second step, immediately do one small turning-back action. The call today, the impulsive sum deleted today, the desk put back today. Fu is Zhen, movement. Only returning in the heart, and yang is still buried.",[11,135,136],{},"Third step, close the pass to raise that one yang. Not becoming a hermit. In seven days, one cycle: fewer feasts, fewer announcements, less taking a tender result to swap for applause. Merchants do not travel; the ruler does not inspect. Let friends come themselves.",[11,138,139,140,145,146,150,151,155],{},"Bo and Fu have to be read together. Just out of Bo, first read ",[141,142,144],"a",{"href":143},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fbo","I Ching Bo Meaning | Hexagram 23 How to Read: Splitting Apart, How to Hold the Last Fruit",". 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Hear “seven days” as a countdown, and on the sixth day you celebrate early, and spend the yang again.",[11,169,170],{},[93,171,172],{},"I drew Fu. Can I resign, get back together, invest?",[11,174,175],{},"You can go, but go correctly. Resigning and Fu: first return to what you truly want to do, not flee. Getting back together and Fu: first change the error, then open the mouth. Investing and Fu: first fill the old hole, then talk of the new. Beneficial to go forth is not beneficial to charge forth.",[11,177,178],{},[93,179,180],{},"Is frequent return hopeless?",[11,182,183],{},"There is hope, so it says no blame. Hopeless is lost return. People of frequent return are tired, people around them tired, but they still recognize the road. Offending the same error one time less is more useful than a poisonous oath. Draw this line: take away the trigger of “again,” more real than attacking yourself.",[11,185,186],{},[93,187,188],{},"Original Bo, changing Fu, or original Fu, changing Wu Wang: how do I read it?",[11,190,191],{},"Bo changing to Fu: dropped complete, starting to return; still leave the ripe fruit. Fu changing to Wu Wang: come back; the next step becomes “do not move recklessly.” The direction is right; you still have to pass this hexagram’s time. 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Read the lines for the next move.",{},{"path":410,"title":411,"description":412,"meta":413},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fmeng","I Ching Meng Meaning: Hexagram 4 Explained","Draw Meng 蒙 and students love to hear two sentences. One: I am stupid. The other: I am not ready, so I should learn nothing.",{},{"path":415,"title":416,"description":417,"meta":418},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fmingyi","I Ching Ming Yi Meaning: Hexagram 36","Draw Ming Yi 明夷 and the room often goes quiet for half a second. Not to paint darkness. The picture is very straight: light has been buried.",{},{"path":420,"title":421,"description":422,"meta":423},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fpi","I Ching Pi Meaning: Hexagram 12 Explained","Draw Pi 否 and class often goes quiet for half a second. Not to paint tragedy. Because this hexagram is straight: not open.",{},{"path":425,"title":426,"description":427,"meta":428},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fqian","I Ching Qian Meaning: Hexagram 1 Explained","Draw Qian 乾 and the first sentence people say is: great luck, go for it. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":430,"title":431,"description":432,"meta":433},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fqian_modesty","I Ching Qian (Modesty) Meaning: Hexagram 15","Among the sixty-four hexagrams, the one that truly deserves “every line still gets through” is Qian (Modesty) 謙, the most famous.",{},{"path":435,"title":436,"description":437,"meta":438},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fsheng","I Ching Sheng Meaning: Hexagram 46 Explained","Cui 萃 is gathering. Gathered, things go up. Going up is Sheng 升. Students drawing Sheng easily hear promotion, a flying dragon. Too early.",{},{"path":440,"title":441,"description":442,"meta":443},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fshi","I Ching Shi Meaning: Hexagram 7 Explained","Draw Shi 師 and students often hear it as war, as unlucky, as “who do I have to fight.” Shi does have the image of troops.",{},{"path":445,"title":446,"description":447,"meta":448},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fshihe","I Ching Shi He Meaning: Hexagram 21","Draw Shi He 噬嗑 and some think it is a hexagram of eating, some a hexagram of quarreling. Both touch it; both are not accurate.",{},{"path":450,"title":451,"description":452,"meta":453},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fsong","I Ching Song Meaning: Hexagram 6 Explained","Draw Song 訟 and some people are excited: at last I can get justice. Some are afraid: am I going to court. Both feelings are too full.",{},{"path":455,"title":456,"description":457,"meta":458},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fsui","I Ching Sui Meaning: Hexagram 17 Explained","Draw Sui 隨 and students often take it as: following along is right, go with the flow, go with fate. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":460,"title":461,"description":462,"meta":463},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fsun","I Ching Sun Meaning: Hexagram 41 Explained","Hear Sun 損 and students wrinkle the face. The character looks like taking a loss, broken wealth, being shaved. Apply the lines to love, career, and decisions.",{},{"path":465,"title":466,"description":467,"meta":468},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Ftai","I Ching Tai Meaning: Hexagram 11 Explained","Tai 泰 is the hexagram in a reading that lets people exhale. Not because it is mysterious. Because the picture is clear: Earth above, Heaven below — Peace.",{},{"path":470,"title":471,"description":472,"meta":473},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Ftongren","I Ching Tong Ren Meaning: Hexagram 13","Draw Tong Ren 同人 and students often automatically translate: there is a patron, there are partners, this time we can do it together.",{},{"path":475,"title":476,"description":477,"meta":478},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fweiji","I Ching Wei Ji Meaning: Hexagram 64","Wei Ji 未濟 is the last of the sixty-four hexagrams. Fire above, water below: Fire over Water, Wei Ji. Apply the lines to love, career, and decisions.",{},{"path":148,"title":480,"description":481,"meta":482},"I Ching Wu Wang Meaning: Hexagram 25","Draw Wu Wang 無妄 and students often split in two camps. Use it to interpret an online hexagram reading. Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":484,"title":485,"description":486,"meta":487},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxian","I Ching Xian Meaning: Hexagram 31 Explained","Draw Xian 咸 and in class someone’s eyes often light: love is coming. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines. Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":489,"title":490,"description":491,"meta":492},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxiaoguo","I Ching Xiao Guo Meaning: Hexagram 62","Xiao Guo 小過 is not as simple as a small fault, and still less “the sin is small, it does not matter.” Guo 過 is going beyond, slightly past the usual line.",{},{"path":494,"title":495,"description":496,"meta":497},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxiaoxu","I Ching Xiao Xu Meaning: Hexagram 9","Draw Xiao Xu 小畜 and students often have two kinds of haste. One: store means save, I will save hugely and do something huge.",{},{"path":499,"title":500,"description":501,"meta":502},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxie","I Ching Xie Meaning: Hexagram 40 Explained","Jian 蹇 is difficulty. Xie 解 is difficulty beginning to loosen. Students drawing Xie easily breathe out, as if they can celebrate. Too early.",{},{"path":504,"title":505,"description":506,"meta":507},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxu","I Ching Xu Meaning: Hexagram 5 Explained","Draw Xu 需 and students most often hear “wait” as two extremes. One: then I lie down and wait for luck. Apply the lines to love, career, and decisions.",{},{"path":509,"title":510,"description":511,"meta":512},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxun","I Ching Xun Meaning: Hexagram 57 Explained","Xun 巽 does not sound like Qian 乾, with force at the first hearing. It is wind, entering, going in through a crack. Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":514,"title":515,"description":516,"meta":517},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fyi","I Ching Yi (Nourishment) Meaning: Hexagram 27","Draw Yi (Nourishment) 頤 and students often first think of the mouth. What to eat, can I lose weight, does this job feed me. The mouth is not wrong.",{},{"path":519,"title":520,"description":521,"meta":522},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fyi_increase","I Ching Yi (Increase) Meaning: Hexagram 42","After Sun 損 comes Yi 益. Students drawing Yi light up: finally it is my turn to receive. This hexagram does have receiving.",{},{"path":524,"title":525,"description":526,"meta":527},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fyu","I Ching Yu Meaning: Hexagram 16 Explained","Draw Yu 豫 and a student’s face lights. Yu is joy, smoothness, the matter finally going smoothly, a chance to breathe. Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":153,"title":529,"description":530,"meta":531},"I Ching Zhen Meaning: Hexagram 51 Explained","Zhen 震 appears, and the matter is rarely still. It is thunder, movement, that sudden strike. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":533,"title":534,"description":535,"meta":536},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fzhongfu","I Ching Zhong Fu Meaning: Hexagram 61","Zhong Fu 中孚, split, is easy: in the middle there is fu 孚. Fu is trust, something like an egg, inside and outside one, that can hatch.",{},{"path":538,"title":539,"description":540,"meta":541},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fzhun","I Ching Zhun Meaning: Hexagram 3 Explained","Students who draw Zhun 屯 often react in one of two ways: it is over, I cannot start — or beginnings are hard, so I will do it another day.",{},1787715768772]