[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":546},["ShallowReactive",2],{"yijing-article-en-li":3,"yijing-articles-list-en":231},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"category":216,"date":217,"description":13,"extension":218,"image":6,"imageAlt":6,"meta":219,"navigation":220,"order":221,"palaces":6,"path":222,"seo":223,"series":6,"sitemap":224,"star":6,"stem":225,"tags":226,"__hash__":230},"content\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fli.md","I Ching Li Meaning: Hexagram 30 Explained",null,{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":204},"minimark",[10,14,17,22,30,33,40,43,49,53,56,59,62,65,69,72,75,78,81,84,88,91,98,104,110,116,122,125,128,132,135,138,141,160,164,169,172,177,180,185,188,193,196],[11,12,13],"p",{},"Draw Li 離 and students often first misread the character. Li, leave. Then they start reading: breakup, resign, things to throw away.",[11,15,16],{},"In class I almost always change this first. 離者，麗也. Li is attaching. Fire has to attach to fuel to shine; eyes have to attach to a thing to see; culture has to attach to a correct place to transform the world. This hexagram is fire, brightness, the eye, a net. Luck is not in “walking away.” It is attaching to the right place. Attach wrong: sudden as coming, burning as, dying as, discarded as.",[18,19,21],"h2",{"id":20},"the-clinging-fire-brightness-above-and-below-attach-to-the-correct","The Clinging \u002F Fire: brightness above and below, attach to the correct",[11,23,24,25,29],{},"The Clinging \u002F Fire. Li above and Li below. The middle is yin, the outer yang: like fire’s hollow, also like an eye. Doubled brightness, two suns stacked. Brightness has to be bright again, so the ",[26,27,28],"em",{},"Xiang"," says the great person continues brightness to shine on the four quarters: today’s brightness, tomorrow still has to connect. Shining once is not enough.",[11,31,32],{},"Above and below both Li, no reverse problem, but people often read Li as Fire over Heaven, Da You 大有, or Fire over Water, Wei Ji 未濟. Da You is fire in heaven, possessing very large. Li is fire stacked on fire: the point is attaching, brightness, the eyes. Jia Ren 家人 is Wind over Fire, Xun above, Li below, Li inside as culture. Ask about home, Jia Ren is more on topic. Ask where this mass of fire attaches, whom it shines for: Li is more fundamental.",[11,34,35,36,39],{},"The ",[26,37,38],{},"Xugua"," says: 「陷必有所麗，故受之以離。離者，麗也。」 After sinking there must be something to cling to; therefore Li follows. Li is clinging. Before it is Kan 坎. Sunk, you must have something to attach to. A person in a pit has to grab a piece that can attach: a correctness, a person, a brightness. So Li is not light falling from the sky. Often after climbing out of Kan, you have to choose where to attach. Attach right, it opens; attach wrong, it burns.",[11,41,42],{},"The judgment: 「離，利貞，亨。畜牝牛，吉。」 Beneficial to be correct: attaching should be correct. It opens. Raise a cow, luck. A cow is a female ox: yielding, able to nourish, able to carry. Fire is most hard, most restless: use the yielding to raise it. Draw Li and still use Qian 乾’s flying-dragon set to raise this fire: fire will burn yourself. Raise a cow is not telling you to raise cattle. This brightness has to rely on yielding to last.",[11,44,35,45,48],{},[26,46,47],{},"Tuan"," says: 「離，麗也。日月麗乎天，百穀草木麗乎土。重明以麗乎正，乃化成天下。柔麗乎中正，故亨。是以畜牝牛吉也。」 Li is clinging. Sun and moon cling to Heaven; the hundred grains and plants cling to soil. Without attaching, brightness is also empty. Doubled brightness still has to cling to the correct. Incorrect brightness is a spotlight on the wrong person.",[18,50,52],{"id":51},"career-and-wealth-first-ask-where-you-attach","Career and wealth: first ask where you attach",[11,54,55],{},"Ask about career and draw Li: overall there is light — being seen, taking the stage, going public, related to culture, documents, eyes, fire, electricity, the net. You can shine. After shining, what is asked is attaching to which company, which boss, which proper work. Attach right: six in the second, yellow Li, great luck. Yellow is the center color; Li is brightness; attaching centered and correct: best. Attach wrong: nine in the fourth’s sudden fire, burned then discarded.",[11,57,58],{},"The most expensive tuition then is “I want to be brighter.” Nine in the third, Li of the declining sun: the sun past noon. Still not beating a jar and singing, then the sigh of great age, unlucky. The sun past midheaven: know this is afternoon, know how to sing, how to take it in — not treat it as still morning. Draw nine in the third: career can see light, but overwork, loving to compare, not accepting fullness at the peak: becomes that sigh of old age. Public performance can be done; adding stakes, another round, stacking another spotlight: does not fit the hexagram.",[11,60,61],{},"For wealth, Li is like fire: comes bright, cannot keep shape. Income that relies on eye, name, being seen, fits better than dark earth-wealth. Fire without fuel goes out. Fuel is that yielding accumulation like a cow: client relations, principal, the body, a process still willing to do fine. Only shine, not raise: the books can look very good; one burning-as and empty. Investment and Li: watch sudden topics, sudden news. Nine in the fourth, sudden as coming, burning as, dying as, discarded as: comes fierce, burns, dies, throws away. This wealth, do not catch with the hand.",[11,63,64],{},"Initial nine, treading mixed, respect it, no blame. Just starting, steps mixed; respect, then no blame. New work, new exposure, a new system: draw the initial nine, allow being in a fluster, do not allow slighting. Respect is treating fire as fire, not as a toy.",[18,66,68],{"id":67},"love-attach-do-not-burn","Love: attach, do not burn",[11,70,71],{},"Ask about love and draw Li: there is light in the relationship, and eyes. Seeing each other, being seen. It can be very bright: public, marrying, introducing the other person to the world. It can also be very scorching: staring, checking, comparing, treating the other person as your fuel. Li is clinging, not occupying. Attach to correct treatment, it opens. Attach to the other person’s fear, it will burn.",[11,73,74],{},"If you are already together, six in the second’s yellow Li is steadiest: centered, correct, not overly bright. Six in the fifth, tears pouring, grief and sighing, luck. Cry, worry, sigh: luck instead. Yielding in the honored place, knowing danger, then able to be correct. In love draw six in the fifth: do not dislike the other person’s many tears, do not dislike your own softness. In danger still able to cry out: better than grinding until burned dry. Luck is in true feeling, not in dignity.",[11,76,77],{},"Nine in the third used in love is past noon. Heat passed; you have to know how to live the days, beat a jar and sing. Still wanting the heat-of-love file: you will sigh. Nine in the fourth is fire bursting: sudden anger, sudden catching in the act, a sudden breakup message. Coming as, burning as; afterward dying as, discarded as. Draw nine in the fourth: cool first. Fire’s first move should not be striking back.",[11,79,80],{},"If you are single and draw Li, a connection relates to seeing: an occasion, appearance, a public field. You have to appear, be seen by correct eyes. Wait for luck, you will not wait for fire. Also raise a cow: leave the yielding; do not, once seen, burn into nine in the fourth. Smashing with more exposure is like pushing the sun further up; the declining sun will come faster.",[11,82,83],{},"Workplace people and Li: documents, decks, name, who is seen: all magnified. Continue brightness to shine on the four quarters: connecting brightness on, not twisting others’ lamps off. The upper nine, the king uses it to go on campaign, there is praise, breaking the head, capturing not the followers, no blame: use brightness to cut, break the head, do not kill the small together. Handling small people, handling a wrong attaching: be accurate, do not expand the strike. In Li’s culture there is campaigning, but campaigning is not burning a city.",[18,85,87],{"id":86},"start-with-respect-sing-when-past-noon-stop-bursting-fire-first","Start with respect, sing when past noon, stop bursting fire first",[11,89,90],{},"In class I pick five lines, treating Li as whether you can attach, take it in, burn.",[11,92,93,97],{},[94,95,96],"strong",{},"Initial nine: 履錯然，敬之無咎."," Steps mixed. Respect, no blame. Draw this line: new brightness can be received; the attitude should be respect. Slighting, showing off, promising before seeing clearly: mixed will become truly wrong.",[11,99,100,103],{},[94,101,102],{},"Six in the second: 黃離，元吉."," Yellow center, attaching correctly. Great luck. Draw this line: almost Li’s cleanest luck. Put the place in the center, give light to the matter that should have it, do not go aside. Career, love, the eyes: all beneficial to hold this center.",[11,105,106,109],{},[94,107,108],{},"Nine in the third: 日昃之離，不鼓缶而歌，則大耋之嗟，凶."," The sun declining west. Not beating a jar and singing, then the sigh of great age, unlucky. Draw this line: fullness has passed. Able to take it in, live the present days: that is song. Still comparing with morning, with others’ midheaven: that is sighing. In health also common: overwork, heat, eyes, the heart — declining sun still used as noon.",[11,111,112,115],{},[94,113,114],{},"Nine in the fourth: 突如其來如，焚如，死如，棄如."," Comes suddenly, burns, dies, discarded. Yang already past the center, also not correct. Draw this line: first treat as a fire alarm. A person, news, a market, anger, coming too fast: do not catch with the hand. Catch, and the later three as will queue up.",[11,117,118,121],{},[94,119,120],{},"Six in the fifth: 出涕沱若，戚嗟若，吉."," Tears like rain, grief and sighing, luck. The yielding clinging to the center, able to worry, therefore able to be correct. Draw this line: allow crying, showing weakness, speaking the danger out. Hard-pretending to be the sun: not lucky. Luck is in true, not in bright.",[11,123,124],{},"The upper nine I often add: the king uses it to go on campaign, there is praise. Break the head, capture not the followers, no blame. Cut what should be cut; remove the leader; do not hunt the followers to the end. Handling a wrong game, a wrong person: accurate is enough. Li’s brightness is used to shine, not to burn a whole stretch into white ground.",[11,126,127],{},"So when people say “I drew Li, very bright, very lucky,” ask again: attach where? Past noon? Is this fire being raised by a cow? Bright and not taking it in: one line apart is sighing, another is burning.",[18,129,131],{"id":130},"in-class-i-have-students-do-three-things-for-li","In class I have students do three things for Li",[11,133,134],{},"First, write what you are now attaching to. A company, a person, an idea, a screen. Attach correctly or not: first judge yourself. Cannot judge, six in the second has not arrived.",[11,136,137],{},"Second, see which stretch the sun is in. Initial nine mixed, six in the second midheaven, nine in the third declining, nine in the fourth sudden fire. Which stretch you stand in, the move is completely different. Respect, hold, sing, stop: four words for four stretches.",[11,139,140],{},"Third, find your cow. Who, what habit, can raise this fire yielding. Sleep, a person willing to advise you, a basic skill that need not see light. Cannot write a cow, and fire will find fuel itself; fuel is often you.",[11,142,143,144,149,150,154,155,159],{},"After Kan is Li. 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You can ask about change, but the original sense is attaching, brightness. Truly to decide “should I go,” look whether the place you attach is correct, whether fire is past noon — not this character’s modern Chinese.",[11,173,174],{},[94,175,176],{},"Raise a cow: is it telling women to be yielding, people to endure?",[11,178,179],{},"A cow is an image: yielding can raise fire. A male manager who draws Li still has to raise this yielding: listen, carry, keep fire in the correct. Map it onto gender and you kill the hexagram. Fire itself is already hard enough. Harder still: burning as.",[11,181,182],{},[94,183,184],{},"I asked about health and drew Li. How do I read it?",[11,186,187],{},"Fire, eyes, the heart, blood heat, inflammation, skin, sight, overwork. Nine in the third’s declining sun most advises taking it in. Not every Li is a great illness. It reminds you where this fire is burning. Eyes and sleep: in class I almost always ask.",[11,189,190],{},[94,191,192],{},"Sudden as coming: is there definitely disaster?",[11,194,195],{},"Nine in the fourth, the image of bursting fire is heavy. Disaster can be people, fire, a piece of news that burns you dry. Not necessarily answering on a house. The way to handle is not using sudden to catch sudden. Respect, stop, cool. 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Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":313,"title":314,"description":315,"meta":316},"\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":318,"title":319,"description":320,"meta":321},"\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":323,"title":324,"description":325,"meta":326},"\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":328,"title":329,"description":330,"meta":331},"\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":333,"title":334,"description":335,"meta":336},"\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":338,"title":339,"description":340,"meta":341},"\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":343,"title":344,"description":345,"meta":346},"\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":348,"title":349,"description":350,"meta":351},"\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":157,"title":353,"description":354,"meta":355},"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":357,"title":358,"description":359,"meta":360},"\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":362,"title":363,"description":364,"meta":365},"\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":367,"title":368,"description":369,"meta":370},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fjin","I Ching Jin Meaning: Hexagram 35 Explained","Draw Jin 晉 and the room brightens a little. It is a hexagram of going up. Bright is not the same as grabbing. Use it to interpret an online hexagram reading.",{},{"path":372,"title":373,"description":374,"meta":375},"\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":147,"title":377,"description":378,"meta":379},"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":381,"title":382,"description":383,"meta":384},"\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. 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Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":403,"title":404,"description":405,"meta":406},"\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":408,"title":409,"description":410,"meta":411},"\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":413,"title":414,"description":415,"meta":416},"\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":418,"title":419,"description":420,"meta":421},"\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":423,"title":424,"description":425,"meta":426},"\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":152,"title":428,"description":429,"meta":430},"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":432,"title":433,"description":434,"meta":435},"\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":437,"title":438,"description":439,"meta":440},"\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":442,"title":443,"description":444,"meta":445},"\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":447,"title":448,"description":449,"meta":450},"\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":452,"title":453,"description":454,"meta":455},"\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":457,"title":458,"description":459,"meta":460},"\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":462,"title":463,"description":464,"meta":465},"\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":467,"title":468,"description":469,"meta":470},"\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":472,"title":473,"description":474,"meta":475},"\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":477,"title":478,"description":479,"meta":480},"\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":482,"title":483,"description":484,"meta":485},"\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":487,"title":488,"description":489,"meta":490},"\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":492,"title":493,"description":494,"meta":495},"\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":497,"title":498,"description":499,"meta":500},"\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":502,"title":503,"description":504,"meta":505},"\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":507,"title":508,"description":509,"meta":510},"\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":512,"title":513,"description":514,"meta":515},"\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":517,"title":518,"description":519,"meta":520},"\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":522,"title":523,"description":524,"meta":525},"\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":527,"title":528,"description":529,"meta":530},"\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":532,"title":533,"description":534,"meta":535},"\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":537,"title":538,"description":539,"meta":540},"\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":542,"title":543,"description":544,"meta":545},"\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.",{},1787715770278]