IChing Translation

Yijing
a working translation
2007 Hilary J Barrett I Ching with Clarity
1, Creative Force
Starting Points Inspiration, creativity, drive to achieve and sustain.
Oracle Creative Force. From the source, creating success. Constancy is fruitful.
Image Heaven moves ceaselessly. The noble one in his own strength does not pause.
Line 1 Submerged dragon, do not use it.
Line 2 See the dragon in the fields. Fruitful to see the great person.
Line 3 Noble one to the end of the day creates, creates. At nightfall, alarmed as if in danger. No mistake.
Line 4 Maybe someone dances in the abyss. No mistake.
Line 5 Dragon flying in heaven. Fruitful to see great people.
Line 6 Arrogant dragon: there are regrets.
All lines changing See a flock of dragons without a leader. Good fortune.
2, Earth, Receptive
Starting Points Power to make it possible, supporting all that grows. Open to provide all that is needed, without limit.
Oracle Earth. Creating success from the source, the constancy of a mare is fruitful. A noble one has a direction to go. At first: confusion. Later: gains a lord and harvest. In the southwest, gains partners. In the northeast, loses partners. Peaceful constancy brings good fortune.
Image Power of the earth, Receptive. Thus the noble one, with generous de, carries all the beings.
Line 1 Treading on frost, Hard ice in the end.
Line 2 Straight, square, great. Without repetition, there is nothing that does not bear fruit.
Line 3 Containing within, a thing of beauty: this can endure. Maybe following kings business Without accomplishment, there is completion.
Line 4 Tied up in a bag. No mistake, no praise.
Line 5 Yellow skirt. From the source, good fortune.
Line 6 Dragons battling in the open country. Their blood dark and yellow.
All lines changing Harvest from ever-flowing constancy.
3, Sprouting
Starting Points Chaos of beginnings. Explore and broaden options rather than restricting them.
Oracle Sprouting. Creating success from the source, constancy is fruitful. No use to have a direction to go, Fruitful to establish feudal lords.
Image Clouds, thunder, Sprouting. Noble one weaves with the warp.
Line 1 Encircled by stones. Harvest in staying put with constancy, Harvest in setting up feudal lords.
Line 2 Now sprouting, now hesitating. Now driving a full horse team. Not outlaws at all, marital allies. The child-womans constancy not bearing children. Ten years go by, then bears children.
Line 3 Pursuing a stag with no forester, Simply entering into the centre of the forest. A noble one reads the subtle signs and sets this aside. Going on: shame.
Line 4 Driving a full team of horses, Seeking marital alliance. Going on, good fortune. Nothing that does not bring harvest.
Line 5 Sprouting, your essence. Small constancy, good fortune. Great constancy, pitfall.
Line 6 Now driving a team of horses, Now tears of blood flow endlessly.
4, Not Knowing
Starting Points Wanting to know, but having to learn from experience. Not everything can be had for the asking.
Oracle Not knowing, creating success. I do not seek the young learner, the young learner seeks me. The first consultation is clearly informative. The second and third muddy the waters, Confusing, and hence not informative. Harvest in constancy.
Image Below the mountain, spring water comes forth. Not knowing. The noble one with the fruits of action, nurtures de.
Line 1 Sending out the ignoramus, Harvest in making use of punishing people, Harvest in loosening fetters and shackles. Going on in this way is shameful.
Line 2 Embracing the learner, good fortune. Involving the woman, good fortune. The son governs the dwelling.
Line 3 Dont take this woman. Sees a man of bronze,

Doesnt have a body. No direction bears fruit.
Line 4 Oppressed ignoramus. Shame.
Line 5 Young ignoramus. Good fortune.
Line 6 Striking the ignoramus. No harvest in acting like an outlaw, Harvest in resisting outlawry.
5, Waiting
Starting Points Waiting for what is most needed: attending, expecting, preparing. Faith shines out.
Oracle Waiting, with sincerity and confidence. Shining out, creating success: constancy brings good fortune. Harvest in crossing the great river.
Image The clouds are above heaven. Waiting. The noble one eats, drinks and relaxes with music.
Line 1 Waiting at the outskirts altar, Fruitful to use perseverance. No mistake.
Line 2 Waiting on the sands, There are small words. In the end, good fortune.
Line 3 Waiting in the bog Invites robbers to come in the end.
Line 4 Waiting in blood.
Come out of your cave.
Line 5 Waiting with food and drink. Constancy, good fortune.
Line 6 Entering into the cave There are uninvited guests, Three people come. Honouring them, in the end good fortune.
6, Arguing
Starting Points A sense of injustice, indignation against the status quo, desire to put things right. A way to begin things, not to end anything.
Oracle Arguing. With sincerity and confidence, blocked. Cautious and centred, good fortune. Completing, pitfall. Harvest in seeing great people. No harvest in crossing the great river.
Image Heaven joining with stream, contradictory movements. Arguing. The noble one, starting up new work, ponders the beginning.
Line 1 Not a lasting place for work. There are small words. In the end, good fortune.
Line 2 Not in control of the argument, Return to your own place, escape to your town, Its people, three hundred households. No blunder.
Line 3 Eating ancient power and virtue. Constancy: danger. In the end, good fortune.
Maybe following kings business, No accomplishment.
Line 4 Not in control of the argument, Turning back, approaching mandate. Renouncing, settling peacefully. Constancy, good fortune.
Line 5 Arguing: good fortune from the source.
Line 6 Maybe someone is granted a money belt. By the end of the day, stripped of it three times.
7, the Army
Starting Points Concentrating forces and attention around a single objective. Intense focus and self-discipline.
Oracle The Army, constancy. Mature people, good fortune. Not a mistake.
Image In the centre of the earth is a stream. The Army. Noble one accepts the ordinary people to gather together crowds.
Line 1 The army sets out according to pitchpipes, At odds with the strength of the army, pitfall.
Line 2 Positioned in the centre of the army. Good fortune, no mistake. The king issues a mandate three times.
Line 3 Perhaps the army carts corpses. Pitfall.
Line 4 The armys resting place on the left,
Not a mistake.
Line 5
The fields have game Fruitful to speak of capturing: No mistake. Elder son leads the army, Younger son carts corpses:
Constancy, pitfall.
Line 6 The great leader has a mandate To found a state and receive the households. Dont use small people.
8, Seeking Union
Starting Points Free choice of where you belong and with whom, without fear. Time to know your own mind.
Oracle Seeking union, good fortune. Retracing the oracle consultation to its source: fundamental, ever-flowing constancy. Not a mistake. Not at rest, coming on all sides. For the latecomer, pitfall.
Image Above earth is the stream. Seeking union. The ancient kings founded countless cities to connect those named as feudal lords.
Line 1 With sincerity and confidence, seeking union No mistake. With sincerity and confidence to overflow the vessel The coming completion brings more good fortune.
Line 2 Seeking union, beginning inside. Constancy, good fortune.
Line 3 Seeking union with non-people.
Line 4 Seeking union outside. Constancy, good fortune.
Line 5 A clear sign of seeking union. The king uses three beaters, Lets the game in front go. The city people are not coerced. Good fortune.
Line 6 Seeking union without a head. Misfortune.
9, Small Taming
Starting Points Small restraints, not quite ready yet. A time for attentive cultivation, like smallscale farming.
Oracle Small taming, creating success. Dense clouds without rain Come from our Western altars.
Image Wind moves above heaven. Small taming. A noble one cultivates the natural pattern of de.
Line 1 Returning to your own path, How could you be wrong? Good fortune.
Line 2 Drawn back, returning. Good fortune.
Line 3 A cart losing its wheel spokes. Husband and wife avert their eyes.
Line 4 There is sincerity and confidence. Blood departs, fear goes away. No mistake.
Line 5 With sincerity and confidence, hence bound together. Rich in your neighbour.
Line 6 Already rained, already come to rest. Honour the de contained. Constancy of the wife, danger. The moon almost full. Noble one sets out to bring order, pitfall.
10, Treading
Starting Points Close enough to the tiger to benefit from its power. Know how to tread, or get eaten.
Oracle Treading the tigers tail. It does not bite people. Creating success.
Image Heaven above, lake below. Treading. The noble one differentiates above and below, And sets right the purpose of the ordinary people.
Line 1 Plain treading going on. No mistake.
Line 2 Treading the path, smooth and easy. For hidden people, constancy brings good fortune.
Line 3 With one eye, can see. Lame, can still walk. Treads on the tigers tail: It bites him. Pitfall. Soldier acting as a great leader.
Line 4 Treading the tigers tail. Pleading, pleading. Good fortune in the end.
Line 5 Decisive treading. Constancy, danger.
Line 6 Observing the footsteps, blessings from the ancestors. They come full circle: good fortune from the source.
11, Flowing
Starting Points Pure creative flow from spirit to realisation. Communion. Love. The small stuff is swept away down river; all good things are possible.
Oracle Flowing. Small goes, great comes. Good fortune, creating success.
Image Heaven and Earth communicate. Flowing. The prince enriches and accomplishes the dao of heaven and earth, Supports and structures heaven and earths mutual help and harmony, Helps and protects the people.
Line 1 Pulling up thatch grass, roots entangled, With more of its kind. Setting out to bring order, good fortune.
Line 2 Embracing emptiness, using it to cross the river without a boat. Not distanced from the forgotten. Friends are lost. Gaining honour, moving to the centre.
Line 3 There is no level ground without a slope, No going out without a return. Constancy in hardship is not a mistake.
Do not sorrow about its truth. In eating and drinking there is blessing.
Line 4 Fluttering, fluttering. Not wealthy in your neighbours. Not on guard in truth.
Line 5 Diyi marries off his daughters. This brings fulfilment, good fortune from the source.
Line 6 The bulwarks fall back into the moat. Don't use the army. From your own capital, declaring the mandate. Constancy means shame.
12, Obstruction
Starting Points Not flowing, not communicating, not working, not possible. The message is not getting through. (Note many lines are about shifting obstruction.)
Oracle Obstructing it, non-people. A noble ones constancy bears no fruit. Great goes, small comes.
Image Heaven and earth do not interact. Obstruction. The noble one uses energy sparingly to avoid resistance He does not allow official honours and salary.
Line 1 Pulling up thatch grass, roots entangled, With more of its kind. Constancy, good fortune. Creating success.
Line 2 Enwrapping and containing the charge. Small people, good fortune. Great people, obstructed. Creating success.
Line 3 Enwrapping and containing shame.
Line 4 There is a mandate, not a mistake. Work with clarity, fulfilment.
Line 5 Resting in obstruction. Great person, good fortune. It is lost, it is lost! Tie it to the bushy mulberry tree.
Line 6 Overthrowing obstruction. Before, obstruction. Afterwards, rejoicing.
13, People in Harmony
Starting Points Fellowship, common cause; expand your idea of my kind of people. Diverse people, ideas, ways of being. Note that harmony may still need creating.
Oracle People in harmony in the wilds: creating success. Crossing the great river bears fruit. A noble ones constancy bears fruit.
Image Heaven joins with fire. People in harmony. In the same way, the noble one sorts the clans and differentiates between people.
Line 1 People in harmony at the gate. Not a mistake.
Line 2 People in harmony at the ancestral temple. Shame.
Line 3 Hiding away arms in the thickets, Climbing your high mound. For three years, not starting anything.
Line 4 Bestriding your city walls,
No-one is capable of attack. Good fortune.
Line 5 People in harmony first cry out and weep, then afterwards they laugh. Great leaders direct their coming together.
Line 6 People in harmony at the outskirts altar. No regrets.
14, Great Possession
Starting Points True power and wealth arises from harmony between people. You have what it takes.
Oracle Great Possession. From the source, creating success.
Image Fire dwells above heaven. Great possession. The noble one ends hatred and spreads the good, She yields to heaven and rests in her mandate.
Line 1 No intercourse with what is harmful, In no way at fault, Hardship is thus not a mistake.
Line 2 A great chariot to carry loads. With a direction to go, no mistake.
Line 3 A prince makes a summer offering to the Son of Heaven. Small people are in no way capable of this.
Line 4 In no way sounding your drum,
Not a mistake.
Line 5 Your truth now communicating, now striking awe. Good fortune.
Line 6 From heaven comes its help and protection. Good fortune. Nothing that does not bring harvest.
15, Integrity
Starting Points Integrity, authenticity, humility, uniting. At one with yourself, at one with the real world, you do what it takes. (No, it doesnt all depend on you.)
Oracle Integrity, creating success. The noble one brings it to completion.
Image In the centre of the earth there is a mountain. Humility. The noble one reduces the many, increases the few, She weighs things up to even out their distribution.
Line 1 Humble, humble, the noble one Makes use of crossing the great river. Good fortune.
Line 2 Integrity calling out. Constancy, good fortune.
Line 3 Toiling with authenticity. A noble one brings it to completion. Good fortune.
Line 4 Nothing that does not bear fruit, Demonstrating integrity.
Line 5 Not rich in your neighbour: Fruitful to make use of invasion and conquest. Nothing that does not bear fruit.
Line 6 Integrity calling out Fruitful to mobilise the army And bring order to the city.
16, Enthusiasm
Starting Points Seeing the big picture, getting the big ideas into circulation. Inspired imagination; might get carried away.
Oracle Enthusiasm. Fruitful to set up feudal lords and mobilise the armies.
Image Thunder bursts forth from the earth. Enthusiasm. The ancient kings composed music to extol power and virtue. They glorified and worshipped the supreme lord, Joining with their ancestors.
Line 1 Enthusiasm calling out, Pitfall.
Line 2 Limits turning to stone, Not to the end of the day. Constancy, good fortune.
Line 3 Wide-eyed enthusiasm, regret. Procrastination brings regret.
Line 4 Source of motivation. Great possessions gained. Do not doubt. Friends are gathered together as a hair clasp gathers hair.
Line 5 Constancy in sickness. Persevering, not dying.
Line 6 Enthusiasm in the dark. Accomplishment brings a change of heart, No mistake.
17, Following
Starting Points Supported by synchronicity, using the natural flow; whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Oracle Following. From the source, creating success, Constancy is fruitful. No mistake.
Image At the centre of the lake is thunder. Following. In the same way, the noble one at nightfall Goes inside for renewal and rest.
Line 1 An official has a change of heart. Constancy, good fortune. Going out of the gates, joining with others, there is achievement.
Line 2 Bound to the small child, Letting the mature man go.
Line 3 Bound to the mature man, Lets the small child go. Following gains what it seeks. Fruitful to stay put with constancy.
Line 4 Following makes a catch. Constancy, pitfall. With sincerity and confidence, holding to the path with clarity, How can this be wrong?
Line 5 Sincere and confident in excellence. Good fortune.
Line 6 Embraced and bound to it. And so attending and connected with it. The king makes offering on the Western mountain.
18, Corruption
Starting Points Your chance to delve into hidden causes that undermine you and make stuff happen. Often these causes are inherited, passed down unexamined.
Oracle Corruption. Creating success from the source. Harvest in crossing the great river. Before seedburst, three days. After seedburst, three days.
Image Below the mountain is the wind. Corruption. The noble one rouses the common people to nurture strength and character.
Line 1 Ancestral fathers corruption. There is a son, The deceased elders are without fault. Danger. In the end, good fortune.
Line 2 Ancestral mothers corruption, Does not allow constancy.
Line 3 Ancestral fathers corruption. There is small regret, No great mistake.
Line 4 Wealthy fathers corruption. Going on sees shame.
Line 5 Ancestral fathers corruption. Use praise.
Line 6 No business with kings and lords, To honour what is highest is your business.
19, Nearing
Starting Points A growing presence and strength. Becoming the one with overview, the one responsible. Concentrate on growth, not on getting something to show for it.
Oracle Nearing. From the source, creating success, constancy is fruitful. Completion in the eighth month means a pitfall.
Image Above the lake is earth. Nearing. In the same way, the noble one teaches and reflects untiringly, Accepts and protects the ordinary people without limit.
Line 1 Influence nearing. Constancy, good fortune.
Line 2 Influence nearing, good fortune. Nothing that does not bring harvest.
Line 3 Sweetness nearing, No direction brings harvest. Already grieving it, no mistake.
Line 4 Completion nearing, No mistake.
Line 5 Realisation nearing. Great leaders righteousness. Good fortune.
Line 6 Great-hearted nearing. Good fortune, no mistake.
20, Seeing
Starting Points Take a step back from the action, and invite everything to come into view.
Oracle Seeing. Washing hands, and not making sacrifice. There is sincerity and confidence like a presence.
Image Wind moves over the earth. Seeing. The ancient kings inspected the regions, Saw the common people, And established their teachings.
Line 1 A child seeing. For small people, no mistake. For a noble one, shame.
Line 2 Peeping through, seeing. A womans constancy is fruitful.
Line 3 Seeing my life. Advancing, withdrawing.
Line 4 Seeing the city shining out.
Fruitful and useful to be a guest of the king.
Line 5 Seeing my own life. The noble one is without mistake.
Line 6 Seeing their lives. The noble one is without mistake.
21, Biting Through
Starting Points Get your teeth into this and gnaw doggedly through the obstacles. Take it in, inwardly digest it, get to the essence.
Oracle Biting through, creating success. Fruitful to make use of legal proceedings.
Image Thunder and lightning. Biting through. The ancient kings brought light to punishments and enforced the laws.
Line 1 Shoes locked in the stocks, feet disappear. Not a mistake.
Line 2 Biting into meat, burying your nose. No mistake.
Line 3 Biting into dried meat, Coming on poison. Small shame, No mistake.
Line 4 Biting into dried, bony meat,
Gains a metal arrow. Constancy in hardship bears fruit. Good fortune.
Line 5 Biting through dried meat, Gaining yellow metal. Constancy means danger, Not a mistake.
Line 6 Why wear a cangue so your ears disappear? Pitfall.
22, Making Beautiful
Starting Points Creating an image that expresses the inner essence. No-one can see or relate to it unless you do.
Oracle Making beautiful. Creating success. Theres small harvest in having a direction to go.
Image Below the mountain is fire. Beauty. The noble one brings light to the many standards, but does not venture to judge legal cases.
Line 1 Line 1: Making your feet beautiful. Putting away the carriage and going on foot.
Line 2 Making your growing hair beautiful.
Line 3 Beautiful, as if immersed. Ever-flowing constancy, good fortune.
Line 4 Beautiful and silvery, A soaring white horse.
Not outlaws, marital suitors.
Line 5 Beauty in a hilltop garden. Rolls of silk: small, so small. Shame. In the end, good fortune.
Line 6 White beauty. No mistake.
23, Stripping Away
Starting Points Everything outworn every image, idea, possession, protection must go. Even if it feels like your skin. Then the space will be cleared.
Oracle Stripping away. Not fruitful to have a direction to go.
Image Mountain rests on the earth. Stripping Away. With generosity from above, creating tranquil places below.
Line 1 Stripping away the bed, by way of its supports. To discard the divination: pitfall.
Line 2 Stripping away the bed by way of its frame. To discard the divination: pitfall.
Line 3 Stripping away. No mistake.
Line 4 Stripping the bed by way of the flesh. Pitfall.
Line 5 String of fish Through the favour of the people of the house. Nothing that does not bring harvest.
Line 6 A ripe fruit not eaten. Noble one gets a cart, Small people strip their hut.
24, Returning
Starting Points Back on track, back to your own path. Quietly and without hurry, rediscovering your inner compass.
Oracle Returning, creating success. Going out, coming in, without haste. A partner comes, not a mistake. Turning around and returning on your path. The seventh day comes, you return. It is fruitful to have a direction to go.
Image Thunder dwelling in the centre of the earth. Returning. The ancient kings closed the borders at winter solstice. Itinerant merchants did not travel, The prince did not tour the regions.
Line 1 Not far away, returning. No regrets here. From the source, good fortune.
Line 2 Letting go, returning. Good fortune.
Line 3 Urgent return. Danger,

No mistake.
Line 4 Walking in the centre, returning alone.
Line 5 Great-hearted return. No regrets.
Line 6 Deluded return, pitfall. There is calamity and blunder. Using this to mobilise the armies: in the end there is great defeat. For your states leaders, disaster. For ten years, incapable of marching out.
25, Without Entanglement
Starting Points Putting away from you everything that is not yours to do and hence restoring your clarity of vision and living connection with source.
Oracle Without entanglement. Creating success from the source, constancy bears fruit. One who makes no corrections commits blunders, It is not fruitful to have a direction to go.
Image Below heaven, thunder moves. Without entanglement. The ancient kings used luxuriant growth in accordance with the seasons to nourish the ten thousand things.
Line 1 Not entangled. Going on, good fortune.
Line 2 No ploughing, reaping. No cleared land, ploughland. And so there is harvest in having a direction to go.
Line 3 The disaster of disentangling Maybe someone tethered a cow. Moving peoples gain, Townspeoples disaster.
Line 4 There can be constancy. No mistake.
Line 5 The affliction of disentangling. No medicinal herbs, there is rejoicing.
Line 6 Without entanglement. Acting brings blunders. No direction yields fruit.
26, Great Taming
Starting Points Mastery, like that of a skilled and prosperous farmer, that acts as a springboard to greater service.
Oracle Great taming, Constancy brings harvest. Not eating at home, good fortune. Harvest in crossing the great river.
Image Heaven dwells in the centre of the mountain. Great taming. The noble one uses the many annals of ancient words and past deeds, And accumulates her power and virtue.
Line 1 There is danger. Fruitful to bring it to an end.
Line 2 The carts axle brackets come apart.
Line 3 A fine horse for pursuit. Constancy in hardship bears fruit. Daily setting limits, transporting, defending. Fruitful to have a direction to go.
Line 4 Young bulls headboard. From the source, good fortune.
Line 5 Gelded pigs tusks. Good fortune.
Line 6 Is this heavens highway? Creating success.
27, Nourishment
Starting Points How do you nourish yourself; what feeds you? You are what you eat.
Oracle Nourishment: constancy brings good fortune. See the jaws, And the origin of your quest to fill your mouth.
Image Below the mountain is thunder. Nourishment. The noble one thus reflects on her words in conversation, And is discriminating about what she eats and drinks.
Line 1 Putting away the spirit tortoise, Gazing at me with jaws hanging down. Pitfall.
Line 2 Unbalanced nourishment. Putting away the canons, looking to the hill-top for nourishment. Setting out to bring order: pitfall.
Line 3 Rejecting nourishment. Ten years go round, no use. No direction brings harvest.
Line 4 Unbalanced nourishment, good fortune. Tiger watches, glares and glares. His appetites, hunts and hunts. No mistake.
Line 5 Putting away the canons, Staying put with constancy: good fortune. Does not allow crossing the great river.
Line 6 Origin of nourishment. Danger, good fortune. Fruitful to cross the great river.
28, Great Overstepping
Starting Points The stresses are too great; the structure cant hold up under the weight. Something has to give. Time to cross the line.
Oracle Great Overstepping, the ridgepole warps. Fruitful to have a direction to go. Creating success.
Image The lake submerges the tree. Great overstepping. Noble one sets up alone without fear, Withdraws from the time without sadness.
Line 1 Using white thatch grass for the offering mat. No mistake.
Line 2 Withered willow sprouts a shoot, Venerable husband gets a woman to wife. Nothing that does not bring harvest.
Line 3 The ridgepole buckles. Pitfall.
Line 4 The ridgepole at the peak, good fortune. If there is more, shame.
Line 5 Withered willow sprouts flowers, Venerable wife gets an upright husband. No blame, no praise.
Line 6 Overstepping, wading the river, head underwater. Pitfall. No mistake.
29, Repeating Chasm
Starting Points In out of your depth, with nothing solid out there to hold onto. You cant go round this; you have to go through.
Oracle Repeating chasm. There is sincerity and confidence. Holding fast the heart creates success. Movement brings honour.
Image Repeating streams reach a climax. Repeating chasm. Noble one thus acts by unchanging principles, And teaches things through repetition.
Line 1 Repeated chasm. Entering into the pit within the chasm. Pitfall.
Line 2 Line 2 The chasm has sheer sides. Seeking, small gains.
Line 3 Coming to chasm on chasm. Steep sides also a resting place. Entering into the chasms cave. No use.
Line 4
A cup of wine, a pair of dishes, Use earthenware. Let in with ropes from the window. In the end, no mistake.
Line 5 The chasm not overflowing, Here it is already peaceful. No mistake.
Line 6 Bound with strong rope and cords, Shut away in a thorn thicket. For three years, gains nothing. Pitfall.
30, Clarity
Starting Points Read the signs, see the pattern, hold it in awareness. Both understanding and the capacity to sustain it.
Oracle Clarity. Constancy bears fruit. Creating success. Rear female cattle, good fortune.
Image Doubled brightness gives rise to Clarity. Great People with continuous light illumine the four regions.
Line 1 Treading, hence confused. Honour it, Not a mistake.
Line 2 Golden light. From the source, good fortune.
Line 3 In the light of the setting sun, If not beating a pot and singing, Then you will be making the lament of great old age. Pitfall.
Line 4 Sudden, Comes, Burns, Dies, Thrown out.
Line 5 Weeping tears like flowing streams, Sad as if in mourning. Good fortune.
Line 6 The king makes good use of marching out, There is a triumph. He executes the chief, the prisoners are not so loathsome. Not a mistake.
31, Influence
Starting Points The realm of mutual attraction, desire, inspiration; someone available to be moved, acutely sensitive. Making space for the influence to enter.
Oracle Influence, creating success. Harvest in constancy. Taking a woman, good fortune.
Image Above the mountain is a lake. Influence. Noble one accepts people with emptiness.
Line 1 Influence in your big toes.
Line 2 Influence in your calves, pitfall. Staying in place, good fortune.
Line 3 Influence in your thighs, Holding to your following Going on, shame.
Line 4 Constancy brings good fortune, regrets vanish. Wavering, wavering, going and coming,
Friends simply follow your desires.
Line 5 Influence in the neck. No regrets.
Line 6 Influence in your jaw, cheeks and tongue.
32, Persevering
Starting Points Established patterns go deep into the fabric of life; habit is a force. The presence of Influence and inspiration is expressed in the daily round.
Oracle Persevering, creating success. Not a mistake. Harvest in constancy; Harvest in having a direction to go.
Image Thunder and wind, persevering. A noble one thus stands firm and does not change his bearings.
Line 1 Diving in to perseverance. Constancy, pitfall. No direction brings harvest.
Line 2 Regrets vanish.
Line 3 Not persevering in your own character, Maybe someone receives a gift of shame. Constancy: humiliation.
Line 4 In the fields, no game.
Line 5 Persevering in your own character with constancy. For the mature woman, good fortune. For the young man, pitfall.
Line 6 Rousing perseverance, pitfall.
33, Retreat
Starting Points Self-preservation: keeping your identity, not getting swallowed up. Withdraw, and stay whole.
Oracle Retreat, creating success. Small harvest in constancy.
Image Below heaven is the mountain. Retreat. Noble one keeps small people at a distance, Not with hatred, but through respect.
Line 1 Retreating tail, danger. No use in having a direction to go.
Line 2 Holding onto it, use yellow oxhide. It will never be capable of getting loose.
Line 3 Tied, retreating. There is affliction, danger. Nurturing servants and handmaidens: good fortune.
Line 4 Loving retreat. Noble one, good fortune.
Small people, obstruction.
Line 5 Praised, retreating. Constancy, good fortune.
Line 6 Rich retreating, Nothing that does not bring harvest.
34, Great Vigour
Starting Points Self-assertion; standing firm as a tree in your strength. How might that strength compare to the strength of the world at large?
Oracle Great vigour, Harvest in constancy.
Image Thunder dwells above heaven. Great vigour. Noble one treads no path that is without ritual.
Line 1 Vigour in the feet. Setting out to bring order: pitfall. There is sincerity and confidence.
Line 2 Constancy, good fortune.
Line 3 Line 3: Small people use power, Noble one uses a net. Constancy: danger. The ram butts a hedge, Entangles his horns.
Line 4 Constancy, good fortune. Regrets vanish. The hedge broken through, no entanglement. Strength in the axles of a great cart.
Line 5 Losing sheep at Yi. No regrets.
Line 6 The ram butts the hedge. Unable to pull back, unable to follow through. No direction brings harvest. Hardship, and hence good fortune.
35, Prospering
Starting Points Blessed with gifts, seizing the opportunity, making the most of it you possibly can.
Oracle Prospering, Prince Kang used a gift of horses to breed a multitude. He mated them three times in one day.
Image Brightness comes forth over the earth. Prospering. The noble one's own light shines in her character.
Line 1 Now flourishing, now stopped. Constancy, good fortune. Empty of sincerity and confidence. Enriched, no mistake.
Line 2 Now prospering, now apprehensive. Constancy, good fortune. Accepting close-woven chainmail, Blessing from your grandmother.
Line 3 All have confidence. Regrets vanish.
Line 4 Prospering like a bushy-tailed rodent,
Constancy means danger.
Line 5 Regrets vanish. Let go, gain, no cares. Going on, good fortune, nothing that does not bring harvest.
Line 6 Prospering, your horns. Hold fast, use it to subjugate the capital. Danger, good fortune, not a mistake. Constancy, shame.
36, Brightness Hiding
Starting Points Hide your light to avoid getting hurt; it can still shine just as brightly under its bushel. (The danger of injury, often caused by a mismatch of standards, is real.)
Oracle Brightness hidden. Harvest in hard toil with constancy.
Image Brightness enters the earths centre. Brightness hidden. Thus the noble one, overseeing the crowds, uses darkness and light.
Line 1 Brightness hiding, flying away, Drooping his wings. The wise disciple is moving, For three days, eats nothing, Has a direction to go. The people in authority have something to say.
Line 2 Brightness hiding, injured in the left thigh. Use a strong horse for rescue. Good fortune.
Line 3 Brightness hidden hunting in the south. Gets their great leader. Hasty constancy not possible.
Line 4 Entering into the left belly, Catching the heart of brightness hiding. Moving to go out of the gate from the courtyard.
Line 5 Jizis brightness hidden. Constancy bears fruit.
Line 6 Not bright, dark. At first rises up to heaven, Later enters into the earth.
37, People in the Home
Starting Points The home: at its simplest, a space for common interests and shared values. Space for everyone to know where they stand and how they relate to the whole.
Oracle People in the Home. Harvest in a womans constancy.
Image Wind comes forth spontaneously from fire. People in the home. The noble ones words are substantial and her actions consistent.
Line 1 With barriers, there is a home. Regrets vanish.
Line 2 No direction to pursue, Stay put in the centre and cook. Constancy, good fortune.
Line 3 People in the home scold and scold, Regrets, danger: good fortune. Wife and child giggle and giggle. In the end, shame.
Line 4 Enriching the home. Great good fortune.
Line 5 The king enters his own home. No cares. Good fortune.
Line 6 With truth, hence making an impression. In the end, good fortune.
38, Opposing
Starting Points Seeing differently, from the outside. The differences are so complete they seem alien; they wont be mixed and compromised away.
Oracle Opposing. Small affairs, good fortune.
Image Fire above, lake below. Opposition. The noble one thus both harmonises and divides.
Line 1 Regrets vanish. Lost horse, no running after it, it returns of itself. See hateful people, No mistake.
Line 2 Meeting a lord in a narrow street. Not a mistake.
Line 3 Seeing the cart dragged back, The oxen stopped, Your men shaved and their noses cut off. With no beginning, there is an end.
Line 4 Opposed, alone. Meet an inspiring man. Joining together in trust, Danger, no mistake.
Line 5 Regrets vanish. Your ancestor bites through the flesh. How could going on be wrong?
Line 6 Opposed, alone. Seeing pigs covered in muck, Loaded with ghosts, the one chariot. At first drawing your bow, Then relaxing your bow. Not robbers at all, but matrimonial allies. Going on meets the rain, and so there is good fortune.
39, Difficulties
Starting Points An uphill struggle could it be time to change direction? Battling on in heroic solitude, could it be time to get help?
Oracle Difficulties. Fruitful in the southwest, Not fruitful in the northeast. Fruitful to see great people. Constancy, good fortune.
Image Above the mountain is the stream. Difficulties. Noble one turns her self around to renew her character.
Line 1 Going on, difficulties. Coming back, praise.
Line 2 A king, a servant: difficult, difficult. In no way is he himself the cause.
Line 3 Going on, difficulties. Coming back, turnaround.
Line 4 Going on, difficulties.
Coming back, connection.
Line 5 In great difficulties, partners come.
Line 6 Going limping, coming maturity. Good fortune. Fruitful to see the great person.
40, Release
Starting Points Untying all the knots of should, have to, ought and what they made me do leaves a life without puppet-strings.
Oracle Release. Harvest in the southwest. With no place to go, Your coming return is good fortune. Having a direction to go, Daybreak, good fortune.
Image Thunder, rain, rousing. Release. In the same way, the noble one overlooks transgressions and forgives crimes.
Line 1 No mistake.
Line 2 In the field, taking three foxes. Gaining a bronze arrow. Constancy, good fortune.
Line 3 Shouldering a burden while also riding in a carriage Encourages outlaws to approach. Constancy, shame.
Line 4 Releasing the thumbs also. Partners arrive, especially true.
Line 5 A noble ones bonds are released. Good fortune. Truth to small people.
Line 6 A prince uses this to shoot a hawk, up on the high ramparts above. Nothing that does not bring harvest: he gets it.
41, Offering (Decrease)
Starting Points Offer it up, let it go, pour it out even if you dont see how you can, or why you should.
Oracle Offering, with sincerity and confidence. From the source, good fortune. Not a mistake, this can endure. Harvest in having a direction to go. Asking why, what is its use? Two simple platters make the offering possible.
Image Below the mountain is the lake. Decrease. Noble one curbs anger, restrains desires.
Line 1 Bringing ones own business to an end, going swiftly, Not a mistake. Considering decreasing it.
Line 2 Harvest in constancy, Setting out to bring order: pitfall. In no way decrease, increasing it.
Line 3 Three people walking, Hence decreased by one person. One person walking,
Hence gains a friend.
Line 4 Decreasing your anxiety, Sending the message swiftly brings rejoicing. Not a mistake.
Line 5 Maybe increased by ten pairs of tortoises, Nothing is capable of going against this. From the source, good fortune.
Line 6 In no way decreased, increasing it. Not a mistake. Constancy, good fortune. Fruitful to have a direction to go. Gaining a servant, not a dwelling.
42, Blessing (Increase)
Starting Points You are blessed; your cup overflows. You can move with this, commit yourself, use the blessing to bring about change.
Oracle Blessing, harvest in having a direction to go. Harvest in crossing the great river.
Image Wind and thunder. Increase. The noble one sees improvement, and so she changes. When there is excess, she corrects it.
Line 1 Harvest when you apply this to make great beginnings. Great good fortune, no mistake.
Line 2 Maybe increased by ten pairs of tortoise-shells. Nothing can impede or contradict this. Ever-flowing constancy, good fortune. The king makes offerings to the supreme good - good fortune.
Line 3 Blessed by means of unfortunate business. Not a mistake. With sincerity and confidence, moving to the centre, Notify the prince with a jade baton.
Line 4 Moving in the centre, Notify the prince, he follows. Harvest in using this to act dependably and move the city.
Line 5 Sincere and confident, with a benevolent heart, No question: good fortune from the source. Sincerity, confidence and benevolence are my own strength and character.
Line 6 Absolutely no blessing for this one, Maybe someone strikes her. To order your heart without perseverance Pitfall.
43, Deciding
Starting Points Make your choice, know what belongs in your life. Stand up and announce yourself; make your message heard at the centre.
Oracle Deciding, tell it in the king's chambers. With truth, cry out, there is danger. Notify your own city. No harvest in taking up arms; Harvest in having a direction to go.
Image Lake higher than heaven. Deciding. Noble one distributes riches to reach those below, He dwells in power and virtue, and so he keeps to himself.
Line 1 Vigour in the leading foot. Going on without control, to act is a mistake.
Line 2 Alarmed, crying out. Evening and night, bearing arms. No fears.
Line 3 Power in the cheekbones means a pitfall. Noble one decides, decides. Goes alone, meets the rain,
As if soaked, is indignant. Not a mistake.
Line 4 Buttocks without flesh, Moving awkwardly now. Lead a sheep on a rope, regrets vanish. Hear words, not trusted.
Line 5 Amaranth on high ground. Decide, decide. Centred action, no mistake.
Line 6 Not crying out. In the end, pitfall.
44, Coupling
Starting Points Did you think youd mastered it? That you could integrate this into your wellordered life, predict the outcome? There are growing tendrils here of possibilities you couldnt imagine.
Oracle Coupling, the woman is powerful. No use to grasp the woman.
Image Below heaven is the wind. Coupling. The crown prince gives out orders to command the four corners of the earth.
Line 1 Held fast by a metal chock. Perseverance: good fortune. With a direction to go, seeing misfortune. A scrawny pig is sure to kick and pull back.
Line 2 In the trap there are fish. No mistake. No harvest in entertaining guests.
Line 3 Buttocks without flesh, Moving awkwardly now. Danger. No great mistake.
Line 4 In the basket, no fish. Rising up, pitfall.
Line 5 Using willow to wrap melons. Containing a thing of beauty, It comes falling from its source in heaven.
Line 6 Coupling, your horns. Shame. Not a mistake.
45, Gathering
Starting Points Gathering everything and everyone together to invest in a great undertaking.
Oracle Gathering together, creating success. The king enters his temple Harvest in seeing great people, creating success. Harvest in constancy. Using great sacrificial animals: good fortune. Harvest in having a direction to go.
Image Lake higher than the earth. Gathering together. Noble one sets aside weapons and tools, And warns against the unexpected.
Line 1 There is sincerity and truth, no completion. Hence disorder, hence gathering together. Like a call, one clasp of the hands brings about laughter. No doubts. Going on, not a mistake.
Line 2 Being drawn. Good fortune, no mistake With sincerity and confidence, there is harvest in making the Spring offering.
Line 3 Gathering together thus, lamenting thus. No direction bears fruit.

Going on, no mistake. Small shame.
Line 4 Great good fortune, no mistake.
Line 5 Gathering together, has a position. No mistake. No trust at all. From the source, ever-flowing constancy. Regrets vanish.
Line 6 Paying tribute: lamenting, weeping, snivelling. Not a mistake.
46, Pushing Upward
Starting Points Progress and growth, step by step. A time to get moving, confidently.
Oracle Pushing upward, creating success from the source. Make use of seeing great people. No doubts. Set forth to the south, good fortune.
Image Centre of the earth gives birth to wood. Pushing upward. In the same way, the noble one with patient strength, Builds up small things to attain the lofty and great.
Line 1 Welcomed pushing upward, Great good fortune.
Line 2 True, hence fruitful to make a spring offering. No mistake.
Line 3 Pushing upward in the empty city.
Line 4 The king makes offerings on the twin-peaked mountain. Good fortune, no mistake.
Line 5 Constancy, good fortune. Pushing upward step by step.
Line 6 Line 6: In the dark, pushing upward. Harvest in unceasing constancy.
47, Confined
Starting Points Trapped, oppressed, hemmed in by walls the test of character. No way to reach out; you have to reach inward.
Oracle Confined, creating success. Constancy of a great person, good fortune. Not a mistake. There are words, not trusted.
Image Lake without stream, confined. Noble one carries out the mandate, fulfils her aspiration.
Line 1 Buttocks oppressed with a wooden stick, Entering into a gloomy valley, For three years, meeting no-one.
Line 2 Confined while drinking and feasting, Scarlet sashes come from all directions. Fruitful to use thank-offerings and oblations. Setting forth to bring order: pitfall, no mistake.
Line 3 Confined by stones, Grasping at star thistles. Entering into his house, does not see his wife. Pitfall.
Line 4 Coming slowly, slowly, Confined in a bronze chariot. Shame. There is completion.
Line 5 Nose cut, feet cut. Oppressed by the crimson sashes. Then moving slowly brings release. Fruitful to use offerings and oblations.
Line 6 Confined by trailing creepers. Feels uneasy and unsettled. Says acting regret. With regret, setting forth, good fortune.
48, the Well
Starting Points A limitless, unchanging resource amidst all the change of our lives. Do we have the means to reach it?
Oracle The Well. Moving the capital city, not moving the well. Without loss, without gain, They come and go, the well wells. Almost drawn the water, but the rope does not quite reach the water, Or breaking one's clay jug, Pitfall.
Image Above the wood is the stream. The Well. In the same way, the noble one toils with the commoners to encourage them to help one another.
Line 1 The well is muddy, no drinking. Old well, no birds.
Line 2 In the well's depths they shoot fish. The jug cracked and leaking.
Line 3 Well is dredged, no drinking. This makes my heart ache. It can be used to draw water, With the kings clear understanding,
Together accepting its blessing.
Line 4 Well is lined, No mistake.
Line 5 The well: clear, cold spring water to drink.
Line 6 The well gathers, Dont cover it. With sincerity and truth, Good fortune from the source.
49, Radical Change
Starting Points A new form of government, a new way of relating, new wineskins for new wine.
Oracle Radical change. On your own day, there is truth. From the source, creating success; constancy is fruitful. Regrets vanish.
Image At the centre of the lake is fire. Radical change. In the same way, the noble one calculates the heavenly signs and clarifies the seasons.
Line 1 Bound with yellow oxhide.
Line 2 Your own day, so change it. Setting out to bring order: good fortune, no mistake.
Line 3 Setting out to bring order means pitfall, Constancy means danger. Words of radical change draw near three times, There is truth and confidence.
Line 4 Regrets vanish, there is sincerity and confidence. Changing mandate, good fortune.
Line 5 Great person transforms like a tiger. Even before the augury, there is sincerity and confidence.
Line 6 Noble one transforms as a leopard, Small people change their faces. Setting out to bring order: pitfall. Staying put with constancy: good fortune.
50, the Vessel
Starting Points Containing and transforming. The elements held in this precious Vessel will be recombined and transmuted into something with its own integrity.
Oracle The vessel. Creating success from the source. Good fortune.
Image Above wood there is fire. The Vessel. Noble one sets the situation straight and consolidates his destiny.
Line 1 The Vessel with upended feet. Harvest from getting the blockage out. Taking a concubine for her child, Not a mistake.
Line 2 The vessel contains something real. My companions are anxious, Cannot come near me. Good fortune.
Line 3 The vessel's carrying loops are changed, Its action blocked. Rich pheasant fat goes uneaten. Rain on all sides diminishes regrets,
In the end, good fortune.
Line 4 The vessels legs break off, The princes stew is upset, Dignity soiled. Pitfall.
Line 5 The vessel with golden loops and bronze handle. Harvest in constancy.
Line 6 The vessel has a jade handle. Great good fortune, Nothing that does not bring harvest.
51, Shock
Starting Points The shock of the utterly unexpected, the ground taken from under your feet and all the reaction. Holding to the one sacred thing that doesnt change.
Oracle Shock, creating success. Shock comes, fear and terror. Laughing words, shrieking and yelling. The shock spreads fear for a hundred miles. Someone does not lose the sacred ladle and libation.
Image Repeated thunder. Shock. The noble one in fear and trembling sets things in order and is watchful.
Line 1 Shake comes, fear and terror. Afterwards, laughing words, shrieking and yelling. Good fortune.
Line 2 Shock comes, danger. A hundred thousand coins lost Climb the ninth hill, Dont chase them. On the seventh day, gain.
Line 3 Shock revives, revives. Shock moves without blunder.

Line 4 Shock releases a bog.
Line 5 Shake goes, comes. Danger. Intention not lost, there are things to do.
Line 6 Shock twists and turns, Watching in fear and terror, Setting out to bring order: pitfall. The shock does not reach your self, It reaches your neighbour. No mistake. There are words of marital alliance.
52, Keeping Still
Starting Points Not reacting. Sometimes to avoid reactivity you need to turn your back.
Oracle Keeping your back still, Not grasping your personality. Moving in your rooms, Not seeing your people. Not a mistake.
Image Joined mountains. Keeping still. The noble one reflects, and does not come forth from his situation.
Line 1 Keeping your feet still, No mistake. Harvest in ever-flowing constancy.
Line 2 Keeping your calves still, Not rescuing your following. Your heart not glad.
Line 3 Keeping your waist still, Dividing your back, Danger smothers the heart.
Line 4 Keeping your self still, No mistake.
Line 5 Keeping your jaws still, Words have order, Regrets vanish.
Line 6 Great hearted keeping still. Good fortune.
53, Gradual Development
Starting Points Marrying into anything is an evolutionary process. Expect it to be very gradual.
Oracle Gradual development. The woman marries. Good fortune. Harvest in constancy.
Image On the mountain is a tree. Gradual development. Noble one dwells in lofty power and virtue to improve the ordinary people.
Line 1 Wild geese gradually advance to the shore. The small child, danger, There are words, No mistake.
Line 2 Wild geese gradually advance to the rock. Drinking and eating, feasting and feasting. Good fortune.
Line 3 The wild geese gradually advance to the high plateau. The husband marches out and does not return; The wife is pregnant, but does not raise the child; Pitfall. Fruitful to resist outlaws.
Line 4 Wild geese gradually advance to the trees. Maybe find a flat branch. No mistake.
Line 5 The wild geese gradually advance to the grave mounds. The wife is not pregnant for three years. In the end, nothing can prevent it. Good fortune.
Line 6 Wild geese gradually advance to the highlands. Their feathers can be used to perform the sacred dances.
54, Marrying Maiden
Starting Points Out of the driving seat, in no position to make your own choices. Coming second. But also an outside chance that this could be a way to come home to something much bigger.
Oracle Marrying maiden. Setting out to bring order pitfall. No direction brings harvest.
Image Above the lake, there is thunder. Marrying maiden. The noble one perpetually flows through endings To know what is flawed.
Line 1 Maiden marries as a younger sister. Limping, can still walk. Setting out to bring order: good fortune.
Line 2 With one eye, can see. Harvest in the constancy of shadow people.
Line 3 Maiden marries as a waiting maid, Turns round and marries as second wife.
Line 4 Marrying maiden overruns the set time. Delays and marries at the right time.
Line 5 Di Yi marries off the maidens. The first wifes sleeves are not as fine as the younger sisters. The moon almost full, good fortune.
Line 6 The woman offers a basket with no contents. The noble sacrifices a goat, with no blood. No direction brings harvest.
55, Abundance (Feng)
Starting Points It all comes together here: an abundance of planning, resources, possibilities, responsibility... This is where you receive your mandate.
Oracle Abundance, creating success. The king assumes it. No mourning. Yi sacrifice at noon.
Image Thunder and lightning culminate as one. In this way, the noble one decides legal proceedings and brings about punishment.
Line 1 Meeting your equal and lord, Though for ten days, no mistake. Going on brings honour.
Line 2 Feng is screened off. With the sun at its highest, seeing the Dipper. Going on gains doubts and anxieties.
With sincerity and confidence like shooting an arrow,

Good fortune.
Line 3 At Feng is profusion, Sun at noon, seeing the froth of stars Your right arm broken,
Not a mistake.
Line 4 At Feng you are screened Sun at noon, seeing the Dipper. Meeting your hidden lord, Good fortune.
Line 5 A thing of beauty coming. Brings reward and praise, good fortune.
Line 6 At Feng, in his hut, Screening off his dwelling place, Peeping through his door. A solitary one without people, For three years sees no-one. Pitfall.
56, Sojourner
Starting Points Passing through, loyal to your own standard, not expecting to affect or be affected by the place where you stay. But dancing your own dance in a strange land is dangerous.
Oracle Sojourner, creating small success. Sojourning, constancy brings good fortune.
Image Above the mountain is fire: the sojourner. The noble one is enlightened and thoughtful in administering punishments, and doesn't draw out legal proceedings.
Line 1 The sojourner: fragments and bits, Splits off from her place and seizes calamity.
Line 2 Sojourner comes to a resting place, Cherishes his belongings, Gains a young helper. Constancy.
Line 3 Sojourner burns down the rest house. Loses his young helper. Constancy brings danger.
Line 4 Sojourner in a shelter, Gains property and an axe. My heart is not glad.
Line 5 Shooting a pheasant, Gets it with one arrow. And so in the end, praise and a mandate.
Line 6 The bird burns its nest. The sojourner first laughs, afterwards cries out and weeps. Loses cattle in Yi. Pitfall.
57, Subtly Penetrating
Starting Points Tracing your roots in your world, and your worlds roots in you: inwardly penetrating, mutually permeable, at home.
Oracle Subtle penetration, small creating success. Harvest in having a direction to go. Harvest in seeing the great person.
Image Wind follows wind. Subtle penetration. Noble one delegates orders to get things done.
Line 1 Advancing, withdrawing. Harvest in a warrior's constancy.
Line 2 Penetrating under the bed, Using scribes and diviners, a whole mix of them. Good fortune, no mistake.
Line 3 Pressing penetration, shame.
Line 4 Regrets vanish. In the field, getting three kinds of game.
Line 5 Constancy, good fortune: regrets vanish. Nothing that does not bring harvest. With no beginning, there is completion. Before de-husking, three days. After de-husking, three days. Good fortune.
Line 6 Penetrating down under the stand. Losing your property and symbol axe. Constancy, pitfall.
58, Communicating Joy
Starting Points The joy of open communication and expression, sharing and exchange.
Oracle Communicating joy, creating success. Constancy bears fruit.
Image Lakes joined together. Communicating joy. In the same way, the noble one joins with partners and friends to speak and practise together.
Line 1 Harmonious communication, good fortune.
Line 2 Sincere and confident communication, good fortune. Regrets vanish.
Line 3 Coming communication, pitfall.
Line 4 Haggling communication, not yet at rest. Putting limits on the affliction brings rejoicing.
Line 5 Trusting in stripping away, There is danger.
Line 6 Communication that pulls.
59, Dispersing
Starting Points All the boundaries have been swept or dissolved away. You can see so much further only its hard to tell where you are.
Oracle Dispersing, creating success. The king assumes his temple. Harvest in crossing the great riv er, Harvest in constancy.
Image Wind moves above the stream. Dispersing. The ancient kings made offerings to the Highest to establish the temples.
Line 1 Using the help of a horses strength, good fortune.
Line 2 Dispersing, flee to your support. Regrets vanish.
Line 3 Dispersing your body Without regrets.
Line 4 Dispersing your flock, From the source, good fortune.
Dispersing gains the hilltop, No barbarian has occasion to think of it.
Line 5 Dispersing sweat, his great proclamation. Dispersing the kings granaries. No mistake.
Line 6 Dispersing blood. Leave, far away, get out. Not a mistake.
60, Articulating
Starting Points Creating boundaries and agreements that feel right to all concerned, measurements and definitions that enable them to understand.
Oracle Articulating, creating success. Bitter articulation does not allow for constancy.
Image Above the lake is the stream. Articulating. The noble one carves out and calculates the measures, She reflects on power and virtue in action.
Line 1 Not going out of the door to the family rooms. Not a mistake.
Line 2 Not going out of the gate from the courtyard. Pitfall.
Line 3 Not like articulating means it will be like lamenting. Not a mistake.
Line 4 Peaceful articulating. Creating success.
Line 5 Sweet articulating, good fortune. Going on brings honour.
Line 6 Bitter articulating: constancy, pitfall. Regrets vanish.
61, Inner Truth
Starting Points Penetrated to the core by the truth of things; an absolute, unflinching grasp on the present moment; inner connection.
Oracle Inner truth. Pigs and fishes, good fortune. Harvest in crossing the great river. Harvest in constancy.
Image Above the lake is the wind. Inner truth. The noble one deliberates over legal proceedings and delays executions.
Line 1 Guided, good fortune. There is another, no peace.
Line 2 Calling crane in the shadows, Its young one responds in harmony. I have a beloved wine cup, I will share myself, simply pouring it out.
Line 3 Gaining an equal. Maybe beating the drum, maybe ceasing. Maybe weeping, maybe singing.
Line 4 The moon almost full, Team horse goes away. Not a mistake.
Line 5 With truth, hence bound together. No mistake.
Line 6 Cockcrow rises toward heaven. Constancy, pitfall.
62, Small Overstepping
Starting Points Make the transition, cross the line, but with feet firmly on the ground and paying scrupulous attention to your environment: its so much bigger than you are.
Oracle Small overstepping, creating success. Constancy bears fruit. Allows small works, does not allow great works. Flying bird calls as it leaves: The above is not right, below is right. Great good fortune.
Image Above the mountain is thunder. Small overstepping. Noble one in actions exceeds in courtesy, In loss exceeds in mourning, In using resources exceeds in economy.
Line 1 Flying bird means pitfall.
Line 2 Passing your grandfather, meeting your grandmother. Not reaching your chief, meeting your servant. No mistake.
Line 3 Not crossing over, he defends himself. Someone is following behind and may kill him. Pitfall.
Line 4 No mistake. Not crossing over, meeting it. Going on is dangerous, must be on guard. Dont use ever-flowing constancy.
Line 5 Dark clouds, no rain from our western suburbs. Prince with a string arrow gets one dwelling in a cave.
Line 6 Not meeting at all, passing it by. Flying bird leaves. Pitfall, Known as calamity and blunder.
63, Already Across
Starting Points After the crossing, when the transition (or decision) has been made, its vital to keep your momentum. Whats next? How can you begin?
Oracle Already across. Creating success, small. Harvest in constancy. Beginnings, good fortune. Completion, disorder.
Image Stream dwells above fire. Already across. In this way, noble one reflects on distress and is prepared to defend against it.
Line 1 Drag on your wheels, Soaking your tail, No mistake.
Line 2 A wife loses her veil. Dont chase it. On the seventh day, gain.
Line 3 The high ancestor subdues the Demon Country. Three years go round, and he masters it. Small people are of no use.
Line 4 The leak plugged with clothes of silk All day long, on guard.
Line 5 The Eastern people slaughter an ox. This is not the way of the Western peoples sincere Spring offering. Genuinely accepting their blessing.
Line 6 Soaking your head. Danger.
64, Not Yet Across
Starting Points Not quite committed, not quite ready, nothing is quite where it needs to be
Oracle Not yet across, creating success. The small fox, almost across, Soaks its tail, Then no direction brings harvest.
Image Fire dwells above stream. Not yet across. Noble one thoughtfully marks out the places for things in the four directions.
Line 1 Soaking your tail, Shame.
Line 2 A drag on its wheels. Constancy, good fortune.
Line 3 Not yet across. Setting out to bring order: pitfall. Fruitful to cross the great river.
Line 4 Constancy, good fortune, regrets vanish. The Thunderer works to subdue the Demon Country.
Three years go round, and there are rewards in the great city.
Line 5 Constancy, good fortune, no regrets. A noble ones radiance. With sincerity and confidence, good fortune.
Line 6 Sincere and confident in drinking liquor, Not a mistake. Soaking your head, Sincere and confident, losing your grip on it.
Acknowledgements First, Yi itself and what speaks through it: much of the above comes both from reading experience, and from asking Yi how to interpret individual lines. Rudolf Ritsema and Stephen Karcher, who created the first Eranos I Ching, with one English word per Chinese character. It was my starting point with Yi, and its influence is still clearly to be seen in my working translation. (I'd recommend anything that gives you character-by-character access to the Yi: the Ritsema/Sabbadini re-edition of the original Eranos work, for example, and also Bradford Hatcher's free 'Matrix' translation, one of the volumes available for download from www.hermetica.info.) LiSe Heyboer not only for her wonderful in-depth work on the Chinese characters, but also for her personal help. And of course I owe something to every author represented on my well-filled shelves, not least Wilhelm, without whom most likely none of us would have heard of the Yijing, and SJ Marshall, without whom Hexagram 55, for one, would look altogether more opaque.

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Yijing

2007 Hilary J Barrett I Ching with Clarity

Starting Points Inspiration, creativity, drive to achieve and sustain.

Line 1 Submerged dragon, do not use it.

Line 4 Maybe someone dances in the abyss. No mistake.

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Line 5 Dragon flying in heaven. Fruitful to see great people.

Line 6 Arrogant dragon: there are regrets.

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Line 1 Treading on frost, Hard ice in the end.

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Line 4 Tied up in a bag. No mistake, no praise.

Line 5 Yellow skirt. From the source, good fortune.

All lines changing Harvest from ever-flowing constancy.

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Line 3 Dont take this woman. Sees a man of bronze,

Doesnt have a body. No direction bears fruit.

Line 4 Oppressed ignoramus. Shame.

Line 5 Young ignoramus. Good fortune.

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Line 1 Waiting at the outskirts altar, Fruitful to use perseverance. No mistake.

Line 3 Waiting in the bog Invites robbers to come in the end.

Line 4 Waiting in blood.

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Come out of your cave.

Line 5 Waiting with food and drink. Constancy, good fortune.

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Maybe following kings business, No accomplishment.

Line 5 Arguing: good fortune from the source.

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Line 3 Perhaps the army carts corpses. Pitfall.

Line 4 The armys resting place on the left,

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Line 2 Seeking union, beginning inside. Constancy, good fortune.

Line 3 Seeking union with non-people.

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Line 4 Seeking union outside. Constancy, good fortune.

Line 6 Seeking union without a head. Misfortune.

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Line 2 Drawn back, returning. Good fortune.

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2007 Hilary J Barrett I Ching with Clarity

Line 1 Plain treading going on. No mistake.

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Line 5 Decisive treading. Constancy, danger.

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Line 3 Enwrapping and containing shame.

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Line 4 There is a mandate, not a mistake. Work with clarity, fulfilment.

Line 6 Overthrowing obstruction. Before, obstruction. Afterwards, rejoicing.

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13, People in Harmony

Line 1 People in harmony at the gate. Not a mistake.

Line 2 People in harmony at the ancestral temple. Shame.

Line 4 Bestriding your city walls,

2007 Hilary J Barrett I Ching with Clarity

No-one is capable of attack. Good fortune.

Line 6 People in harmony at the outskirts altar. No regrets.

2007 Hilary J Barrett I Ching with Clarity