I Ching Oracle / Hexagrams / 30
The Judgement
Perseverance furthers. It brings success. Care of the cow brings good fortune.
Clarity that depends on what it clings to; shine, but stay attached.
The Image
That which is bright rises twice; the great man, by perpetuating this brightness, illumines the four quarters of the world.
This hexagram on ten matters
- WorkCAREER
- Brightness that clings. Your light needs something to attach to if it is to burn long.
- LoveRELATIONSHIP
- You both depend and are depended upon. Care of the cow brings good fortune — gentle patience outlasts a fierce flame.
- MoneyFINANCE
- Attach to a solid platform or system rather than burning alone. In the light of the setting sun: brightness has a limit; position yourself before noon passes.
- HealthBODY
- A fire hexagram — watch for overstimulation and poor sleep. Perpetuating the brightness is the ideal, but oil runs out.
- StudyLEARNING
- High comprehension. Yellow light, supreme good fortune: hold the middle and avoid extreme methods.
- An examEXAM
- Li is brightness and the eye. On the day, attend to focus and reading: read the question, read the options. Many lost marks are not ignorance but misreading.
- PeopleSOCIAL
- You are the bright one in the group. Its coming is sudden, it flames up warns that too much brightness scorches people.
- A choiceDECISION
- Decide within the existing rules and structure rather than starting your own.
- TravelJOURNEY
- Feasible. But the king marches forth — travel with a clear purpose rather than wandering.
- A lost itemLOST ITEM
- Somewhere bright or conspicuous — you simply have not seen it. Try again under different lighting.
The Six Lines
The footprints run crisscross. If one is seriously intent, no blame.
The footprints run crisscross; if one is seriously intent, no blame. A confused start. The warning comes at the beginning: treat the first steps with gravity.
Yellow light. Supreme good fortune.
Yellow light; supreme good fortune. Central and correct brightness. The best line in the hexagram: luminous, and holding the middle.
In the light of the setting sun, men either beat the pot and sing or loudly bewail the approach of old age. Misfortune.
In the light of the setting sun. Dusk. Either beat the pot and sing, or lament old age. The misfortune is refusing to accept the phase has passed.
Its coming is sudden; it flames up, dies down, is thrown away.
Its coming is sudden; it flames up, dies down, is thrown away. Violent arrival, violent end — the harshest wording in the book.
Tears in floods, sighing and lamenting. Good fortune.
Tears in floods, sighing and lamenting. And yet fortunate: genuine fear is what produces the vigilance that saves.
The king uses him to march forth and chastise. Then it is best to kill the leaders and take captive the followers. No blame.
The king marches forth to chastise; he kills the leaders and spares the followers. The proportion here: punish the principals without sweeping up the rest.
The governing line
Nuclear · Opposite · Reverse
The nuclear hexagram shows the middle stretch of the matter; the opposite is the same situation seen from the reverse position; the reverse is the view from the other party's side.