[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":528},["ShallowReactive",2],{"yijing-article-en-jin":3,"yijing-articles-list-en":213},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"category":198,"date":199,"description":200,"extension":201,"image":6,"imageAlt":6,"meta":202,"navigation":203,"order":204,"palaces":6,"path":205,"seo":206,"series":6,"sitemap":207,"star":6,"stem":208,"tags":209,"__hash__":212},"content\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fjin.md","I Ching Jin Meaning: Hexagram 35 Explained",null,{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":187},"minimark",[10,14,17,25,30,36,39,45,49,52,55,62,68,74,80,86,89,93,96,99,102,105,108,112,115,118,121,124,143,147,152,155,160,163,168,171,176,179],[11,12,13],"p",{},"Draw Jin 晉 and the room brightens a little. It is a hexagram of going up. Bright is not the same as grabbing.",[11,15,16],{},"Jin is Fire over Earth, Li above Kun. Fire above, Earth below. The sun rising from the ground: 「明出地上」— light coming out over the earth. Reverse above and below and you have Ming Yi 明夷, Earth over Fire: light buried in the ground. One is ascent; one is injury and hiding. Flip the positions and fortune and misfortune swap for the whole article. For divination, say the full name first: Huo Di Jin (火地晉).",[11,18,19,20,24],{},"The ",[21,22,23],"em",{},"Xu Gua"," says: 「物不可以終壯，故受之以晉。晉者，進也。」 Things cannot end in Zhuang, so Jin follows. Jin means advance. After Da Zhuang 大壯 you cannot only butt. You have to know how to go in. Advance and strength are not the same. Strength is large force. Advance is walking to a place where you can be seen. People whose ram is still in the hedge will advance Jin very ugly.",[26,27,29],"h2",{"id":28},"jin-light-over-the-earth-is-ascent-and-being-received","Jin: light over the earth is ascent, and being received",[11,31,19,32,35],{},[21,33,34],{},"Tuan"," says: 「晉，進也。明出地上。順而麗乎大明，柔進而上行。」 Jin is advance. Light comes out over the earth. Yielding, clinging to great brightness, the yielding advances and goes upward. Below, Kun is yielding; above, Li is brightness. You attach, yielding, to a great light, and the yielding current goes up. The judgment is concrete: 「康侯用錫馬蕃庶，晝日三接。」 The Marquis of Kang is granted many horses, and in one day is received three times. In divination this is promotion, being summoned, a patron looking at you several times, a case passing three gates in a day.",[11,37,38],{},"So Jin is not being strong at home. Someone outside receives you. However able you are, without that “three receptions,” Jin stays in imagination. Draw Jin and look for the person who can receive you, the platform that can shine. If there is none, first do the yielding well, so light has something to cling to.",[11,40,19,41,44],{},[21,42,43],{},"Xiang"," says: light coming out over the earth, Jin. The superior person makes their own bright virtue shine. Shine the virtue out. Not shout it. Do the work so people can see it. Self-illumination is not self-praise.",[26,46,48],{"id":47},"career-and-wealth-you-can-advance-but-the-advance-must-be-clean","Career and wealth: you can advance, but the advance must be clean",[11,50,51],{},"Ask about career and draw Jin: as a whole it suits competing, interviewing, submitting for review, handing results up. Three receptions in daylight: the pace is fast, replies are fast. Suit appearing. Do not hide. Hiding is Ming Yi’s strategy. Use it in Jin and you miss the reception.",[11,53,54],{},"The first line already throws cold water. 「晉如摧如，貞吉。罔孚，裕無咎。」 Advance as if crushed. Persistence is still fortunate. Not yet trusted; be spacious, and there is no blame. Draw the initial six: a promotion, a submission, a proposal sent back is not necessarily the end. Charge while being crushed, and you turn Jin into shame. Yu 裕 is room in the heart, and room in the calendar — time for someone to look at you again.",[11,56,57,61],{},[58,59,60],"strong",{},"Six in the second: 晉如愁如，貞吉。受茲介福于其王母. Advance as if anxious. Persistence fortunate. Receiving this great blessing from the queen mother."," You have gone in, yet the face is anxious. Persistence is fortunate. The large blessing comes from the queen mother, from elders, from an inner layer. Draw this line and promotion is not necessarily happy. Duty, eyes on you, the family’s hopes come up together. The blessing is real. So is the anxiety. Allow yourself to worry, and still walk the correct step to the end. Many students think Jin should be joyful, and seeing “as if anxious” they think the reading is wrong. It is not. Jin can advance while anxious.",[11,63,64,67],{},[58,65,66],{},"Six in the third: 眾允，悔亡. The multitude consents; regret vanishes."," This is Jin’s line that most looks like “everyone recognizes it.” Title, team, the family end, begin to nod. You can go forward. Stop vetoing yourself.",[11,69,70,73],{},[58,71,72],{},"Nine in the fourth: 晉如鼫鼠，貞厲. Advance like a shi-rat. Persistence is dangerous."," The shi-rat is the rodent that wants to go in, is greedy, is afraid, and fidgets in small motions. Persistence is still dangerous. Draw this line and in career the common picture is: the seat is not enough, so you first scoop what is beside it, step on others, want everything. Greedy advance. The promotion has not come down, and you already change the title, occupy the seat, pull resources onto your desk. Dangerous. Pull the claws back, and Jin looks like the Marquis of Kang, not like a rat.",[11,75,76,79],{},[58,77,78],{},"Six in the fifth: 悔亡，失得勿恤，往吉，無不利. Regret vanishes. Do not fret gain and loss. To go is fortunate; nothing is unfavorable."," This is Jin’s ruling mind. Ask about a post, an exam, whether to go out this time, and six in the fifth is the most blunt: do what you should do. Do not nail your eyes to the scoreboard. People who fret gain and loss make the light shake by themselves.",[11,81,82,85],{},[58,83,84],{},"Upper nine: 晉其角，維用伐邑，厲吉，無咎，貞吝. Advance with the horn. Use it only to attack your own town. Dangerous yet fortunate, no blame; persistence brings regret."," You have advanced to using the horn. You can only use it to tidy a small city of your own. Use it to collide outward and you go too far. Dangerous yet fortunate, no blame — still, persistence brings regret. Draw the upper line: you may reorganize inside, close out, finish a small range. Do not take this bit of ascent to open a larger war. The horn is a habit left from Da Zhuang. Jin at the top still using the horn: the name will be stingy.",[11,87,88],{},"In wealth, Jin looks like income that comes because you were seen: a bonus, an order, a patron’s introduction. It comes relatively in the open, and it depends on the occasion. The shi-rat’s scooping: even if money comes in, danger comes in with it. “Do not fret gain and loss” in wealth means do not let one sum you did not get scramble the next step. The Marquis of Kang’s horses were granted. They were not led out of the stable by himself.",[26,90,92],{"id":91},"jin-in-love-the-bond-is-seen-not-a-private-fever","Jin in love: the bond is seen, not a private fever",[11,94,95],{},"Ask about love and draw Jin: the relationship moves toward the light — meeting parents, going public, the circle of friends knowing, bringing the person into a room. If you are single, you may meet in a public place, or someone who was ambiguous becomes willing to be seen. Suit appearing. Do not Jin only in a late-night window.",[11,97,98],{},"If you are already together, Jin can push the relationship up a grade: settling it, meeting elders, putting the two of you on the table. Six in the second’s anxiety is common; meeting the parents is anxious by nature. Persistence is fortunate; blessing comes from the queen mother. The queen mother need not be a grandmother. It is whoever in the house can nod, the inner layer of recognition. Skip that layer in a hurry, and Jin is fire without earth: bright for a moment, then it drifts.",[11,100,101],{},"The shi-rat in love is demanding a seat before you are recognized: changing the form of address, managing the other person’s life, playing “already settled” in front of outsiders. Persistence is dangerous. The Marquis of Kang is received first; then the horses come. No seat, and you already lead the horse: that is the rat.",[11,103,104],{},"Do not fret gain and loss, in love: whether they reply, whether the family receives you — finish the ritual you should finish. Do not nail the heart to every “read.” Nail it, and “advance as if crushed” will be magnified by you into the end of the world.",[11,106,107],{},"Jin is not Xian 咸. Xian is influence; it can be very private. Jin is advancing into the light. Jin without Xian, made public, will be empty. Xian without Jin stays forever at the fingertips. The two hexagrams can be read together. Whether the family end nods still has to ask Jia Ren 家人.",[26,109,111],{"id":110},"in-class-two-kinds-of-people-fail-ascent-most","In class, two kinds of people fail ascent most",[11,113,114],{},"One kind flips the table when crushed. The first line clearly wrote persistence fortunate, spacious, no blame. They are not spacious. They want justice on the spot. After they demand it, the three receptions are gone.",[11,116,117],{},"One kind, once they rise, frets gain and loss, or once they rise becomes a rat. Six in the fifth tells you not to fret. Nine in the fourth tells you not to be a shi-rat. Both sentences govern the hands after you have gone in.",[11,119,120],{},"I have students use the Marquis of Kang as a ruler. Was I received this time? Did I take the horses as a grant, not as something I should grab? Can I appear in the rooms I should appear in during the day, then go home and sleep, instead of counting at night how many times I was looked at?",[11,122,123],{},"The sun rising from the ground is a natural advance. What you do is yield, be bright, and not chisel daybreak with a horn. The next hexagram is Ming Yi. Advance must bring some injury. People who have done well in Jin should know that light will enter the earth. Not to frighten you. So that when you rise you make the bright virtue shine, and when injury comes you have something to hide.",[11,125,126,127,132,133,137,138,142],{},"Related: ",[128,129,131],"a",{"href":130},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fdazhuang","I Ching Da Zhuang Meaning | Hexagram 34 How to Read: The Power of the Great, How to Hold Force",", ",[128,134,136],{"href":135},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fmingyi","I Ching Ming Yi Meaning | Hexagram 36 How to Read: Darkening of the Light, How to Hide Brightness",". After you rise, if the house must hold: ",[128,139,141],{"href":140},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fjiaren","I Ching Jia Ren Meaning | Hexagram 37 How to Read: The Family, Marriage and Ordering the House",".",[26,144,146],{"id":145},"i-ching-jin-faq","I Ching Jin FAQ",[11,148,149],{},[58,150,151],{},"If I draw Jin, will I certainly be promoted or pass the exam?",[11,153,154],{},"There is qi of advancing and being seen. It is not a notice. The first line can be crushed. Nine in the fourth is dangerous through greed. The upper nine is useful only in a small range. If the question is “this interview,” Jin’s direction is right. You still look at which line, and whether you actually handed the work in. Without handing it in, light cannot rise.",[11,156,157],{},[58,158,159],{},"Advance as if crushed: is this attempt over?",[11,161,162],{},"A setback; persistence is still fortunate. Not yet trusted; be spacious, no blame. This line’s danger is taking one rejection as a verdict on the person. Leave room for a second reception, and you look like the Marquis of Kang, not like someone who smashes the sign.",[11,164,165],{},[58,166,167],{},"Do not fret gain and loss: does that mean success and failure do not matter?",[11,169,170],{},"Not that they do not matter. That you should not fret. Fret is worry, binding the heart to gain and loss. Do the work, count the scores — do not spend the whole night sitting with that one sum. To go is fortunate: fortune is in going forward. Stopping there to settle accounts is not.",[11,172,173],{},[58,174,175],{},"Original Da Zhuang into Jin, or original Jin into Ming Yi: how do I read it?",[11,177,178],{},"Da Zhuang into Jin: gather force into ascent, stop butting, go to be received. Jin into Ming Yi: advance will injure, or after this brightness you must begin to hide. The second is not an order to cancel Jin. Injury follows Jin by design. 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Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":294,"title":295,"description":296,"meta":297},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fgu","I Ching Gu Meaning: Hexagram 18 Explained","Draw Gu 蠱 and students often wrinkle the face. The character looks like insects, poison, something dirty in the house. Some people say straight: bad luck.",{},{"path":299,"title":300,"description":301,"meta":302},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fguai","I Ching Guai Meaning: Hexagram 43 Explained","Yi 益 added to a point must break. Breaking is Guai 夬. Students drawing Guai easily hear war: cut that person, tear that matter, lay it out tonight.",{},{"path":304,"title":305,"description":306,"meta":307},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fguan","I Ching Guan Meaning: Hexagram 20 Explained","Draw Guan 觀 and students often say: I will look again. Those three words, look again, are sometimes right, sometimes hiding.",{},{"path":309,"title":310,"description":311,"meta":312},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fguimei","I Ching Gui Mei Meaning: Hexagram 54","Draw Gui Mei 歸妹 and the most dangerous classroom reaction is a smile: Gui Mei, a younger sister is to marry — is that not joy.",{},{"path":314,"title":315,"description":316,"meta":317},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fheng","I Ching Heng Meaning: Hexagram 32 Explained","Draw Heng 恆 and some people exhale: it can last. Some are tense: am I bound dead, cannot change? Apply the lines to love, career, and decisions.",{},{"path":319,"title":320,"description":321,"meta":322},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fhuan","I Ching Huan Meaning: Hexagram 59 Explained","Huan 渙 is most easily heard as one sentence: it is over, we will scatter. Use it to interpret an online hexagram reading.",{},{"path":324,"title":325,"description":326,"meta":327},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fjian","I Ching Jian Meaning: Hexagram 39 Explained","Draw Jian 蹇 and students’ first reaction is often: it is over, I cannot walk. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":329,"title":330,"description":331,"meta":332},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fjian_gradual","I Ching Jian (Gradual) Meaning: Hexagram 53","Draw Jian (Gradual) 漸 and students are sometimes disappointed: neither great fortune nor great misfortune — what am I to do.",{},{"path":140,"title":334,"description":335,"meta":336},"I Ching Jia Ren Meaning: Hexagram 37","Jia Ren 家人, as the name says, asks about the people of the house and the matters of the house. Use it to interpret an online hexagram reading.",{},{"path":338,"title":339,"description":340,"meta":341},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fjie","I Ching Jie Meaning: Hexagram 60 Explained","Jie 節 is popular with modern people. Hear limitation, a system, measure, and it seems at last a hexagram helping you manage self-discipline.",{},{"path":343,"title":344,"description":345,"meta":346},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fjiji","I Ching Ji Ji Meaning: Hexagram 63 Explained","Ji Ji 既濟 is the hexagram among the sixty-four that looks most orderly. Apply the lines to love, career, and decisions. Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":205,"title":5,"description":200,"meta":348},{},{"path":350,"title":351,"description":352,"meta":353},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fjing","I Ching Jing Meaning: Hexagram 48 Explained","Jing 井 appears, and I first ask students: what do you rely on to feed people, and to feed yourself? Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":355,"title":356,"description":357,"meta":358},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fkan","I Ching Kan Meaning: Hexagram 29 Explained","Draw Kan 坎 and in class someone often says straight: water, danger, bad luck. Then asks whether they can change the day and ask again.",{},{"path":360,"title":361,"description":362,"meta":363},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fkui","I Ching Kui Meaning: Hexagram 38 Explained","Get the hexagram right first. Kui is Fire over Lake, Li above Dui. Fire above, lake below. Fire burns upward; water seeps down: the two run opposite ways.",{},{"path":365,"title":366,"description":367,"meta":368},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fkun","I Ching Kun Meaning: Hexagram 2 Explained","Draw Kun 坤 and some people are disappointed: it is not Qian 乾, so I cannot charge. 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Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":385,"title":386,"description":387,"meta":388},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Flv","I Ching Lü Meaning: Hexagram 10 Explained","Draw Lü 履 and students often hear two things. One: Lü is shoes, I will go charge. The other: there is a tiger ahead, I will do nothing.",{},{"path":390,"title":391,"description":392,"meta":393},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Flv_wanderer","I Ching Lü (Wanderer) Meaning: Hexagram 56","Lü (Wanderer) 旅 appears, and a person is usually not on their own kang. Use it to interpret an online hexagram reading. Read the lines for the next move.",{},{"path":395,"title":396,"description":397,"meta":398},"\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":135,"title":400,"description":401,"meta":402},"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":404,"title":405,"description":406,"meta":407},"\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":409,"title":410,"description":411,"meta":412},"\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":414,"title":415,"description":416,"meta":417},"\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":419,"title":420,"description":421,"meta":422},"\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":424,"title":425,"description":426,"meta":427},"\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":429,"title":430,"description":431,"meta":432},"\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":434,"title":435,"description":436,"meta":437},"\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":439,"title":440,"description":441,"meta":442},"\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":444,"title":445,"description":446,"meta":447},"\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":449,"title":450,"description":451,"meta":452},"\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":454,"title":455,"description":456,"meta":457},"\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":459,"title":460,"description":461,"meta":462},"\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":464,"title":465,"description":466,"meta":467},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fwuwang","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":469,"title":470,"description":471,"meta":472},"\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":474,"title":475,"description":476,"meta":477},"\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":479,"title":480,"description":481,"meta":482},"\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":484,"title":485,"description":486,"meta":487},"\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":489,"title":490,"description":491,"meta":492},"\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":494,"title":495,"description":496,"meta":497},"\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":499,"title":500,"description":501,"meta":502},"\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":504,"title":505,"description":506,"meta":507},"\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":509,"title":510,"description":511,"meta":512},"\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":514,"title":515,"description":516,"meta":517},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fzhen","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":519,"title":520,"description":521,"meta":522},"\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":524,"title":525,"description":526,"meta":527},"\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.",{},1787715769921]