I Ching Oracle / Hexagrams / 49
The Judgement
On your own day you are believed. Supreme success, furthering through perseverance. Remorse disappears.
Change becomes possible only when trust has been earned first.
The Image
Fire in the lake; the noble one sets the calendar in order and makes the seasons clear.
This hexagram on ten matters
- WorkCAREER
- Change becomes possible only after trust. On your own day you are believed — change before the time and no one follows; change at the time and it accords with both heaven and people.
- LoveRELATIONSHIP
- The mode of relating needs changing. Changing the form of government brings good fortune: change the pattern, not the person.
- MoneyFINANCE
- Strategy needs adjusting. When talk of revolution has gone round three times, men believe him — the same proposal takes three tellings. Do not give up after one.
- HealthBODY
- This hexagram is about reform. Now is when a long habit can be changed — but not all at once, or it rebounds.
- StudyLEARNING
- Time to switch methods. The great man changes like a tiger, believed before he asks the oracle: get it right and the effect needs no explaining.
- An examEXAM
- If the exam format or syllabus has just changed, this hexagram favours you: everyone starts from the same line. On your own day you are believed — in a new system's first years, study the official sample papers first.
- PeopleSOCIAL
- A relationship needs redefining. The inferior man molts in the face — some change only the surface. Tell the difference.
- A choiceDECISION
- Change rather than hold. But starting brings misfortune, perseverance brings danger: change in stages, not by force.
- TravelJOURNEY
- Feasible, and this trip may shift how you think.
- A lost itemLOST ITEM
- Its place has changed; do not look where it used to be. Someone may have moved or reorganised it.
The Six Lines
Wrapped in the hide of a yellow cow.
Wrapped in the hide of a yellow cow. Bound fast; do not move yet. The starting point: before the time, reform is mere agitation.
When one's own day comes, one may create revolution. Starting brings good fortune. No blame.
When one's own day comes, one may create revolution; starting brings good fortune. The fortune hangs entirely on timing — a day early is too early.
Starting brings misfortune. Perseverance brings danger. When talk of revolution has gone the rounds three times, one may commit oneself, and men will believe him.
Starting brings misfortune; perseverance brings danger. When talk of revolution has gone round three times, men believe. The lesson is patience.
Remorse disappears. Men believe him. Changing the form of government brings good fortune.
Remorse disappears; men believe him, and he changes the mandate. The pivot: trust first, then the change.
The great man changes like a tiger. Even before he questions the oracle he is believed.
The great man changes like a tiger; believed before he consults the oracle. Done rightly, it needs no explaining.
The superior man changes like a panther. The inferior man molts in the face. Starting brings misfortune. To remain persevering brings good fortune.
The superior man changes like a panther, the inferior man molts in the face. Some truly change, some only their expression. Reform should stop here.
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.