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The sixty-four

The hexagrams

Each of the sixty-four hexagrams has its own page: the Judgement and the Image in plain English, what the two trigrams do to each other, all six changing lines, and where the text actually came from.

Entry type
Upper trigram
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Hexagram 43: Breakthrough

Hexagram 42: Increase
A hexagram about deliberate reduction. Decrease describes giving something up on purpos...

Hexagram 41: Decrease
Fire above water, moving apart, and not one line of the six in its correct place. Wei J...

Hexagram 64: Before Completion
Water above fire, and every line in its correct place. Ji Ji is the only completely ord...

Hexagram 63: After Completion
A bronze ritual cauldron standing on three legs. Hexagram 50 is about the container tha...

Hexagram 50: The Cauldron
Fire under a lake, each working against the other. Hexagram 49 is about change that rep...

Hexagram 49: Revolution
Four yielding lines around two firm ones at the centre, and a bird in the Judgement tha...

Hexagram 62: Preponderance of the Small
Wind over lake, with a hollow at the centre of the figure. Zhong Fu is trust that goes ...

Hexagram 61: Inner Truth
A well in the ground, unchanged while the town around it is rebuilt. Hexagram 48 is abo...

Hexagram 48: The Well
A lake with the water drained out from under it. Hexagram 47 is the book's hexagram of ...

Hexagram 47: Oppression
Water standing above a lake, which holds only so much. Jie is limitation, and the hexag...

Hexagram 60: Limitation