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I Ching · Hexagram 58 The Joyous

Hexagram 58 for decisions: The Joyous

兌 Duì · A decision

Choose the option that brings real, grounded gladness, and share the deciding with people you trust. The reading is against the choice made to please or to be pleased, and for the one made from inner firmness.

Lake below, lake above: two lakes touching, each replenishing the other. The Joyous is the hexagram of gladness, and its structure explains the tradition's view of it: a firm line within, a yielding line without. True joy is firm inside and gentle outside, not the reverse. The judgement is success, persistence furthers. The image is of friends discussing and practising together, joy that grows by being shared and by being about something. The reading says the situation is one of gladness, or should be, and the lines distinguish the joy that comes from within and from good company from the joy that is sought outside and ends in dissipation.

Advice
Keep joy firm within and gentle without, and share it in honest company.
Warning
Joy sought outside, from flattery or distraction, empties the lake; joy grounded within refills it.

The changing lines, read for decisions

If your cast of Hexagram 58 had changing lines, these are what each one adds to a decision question, and where each leads.

  1. Line 1 · changes into 47 Oppression

    Contented joyousness. Good fortune. Be content with what is; that contentment is the good fortune.

  2. Line 2 · changes into 17 Following

    Sincere joyousness. Good fortune. Remorse disappears. Keep your joy sincere even among the insincere; you will not regret it.

  3. Line 3 · changes into 43 Breakthrough

    Coming joyousness. Misfortune. If your gladness only comes from outside, it will fail; build it within.

  4. Line 4 · changes into 60 Limitation

    Joyousness that is weighed is not at peace. After ridding himself of mistakes, a man has joy. Choose the higher pleasure and give up the lower; the peace comes after.

  5. Line 5 · changes into 54 The Marrying Maiden

    Sincerity toward disintegrating influences is dangerous. Do not give your trust to the influence that is undoing you.

  6. Line 6 · changes into 10 Treading

    Seductive joyousness. You are being led by pleasure; recover your inner firmness while you still can.

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