The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 10

What does I Ching hexagram 10, Treading, mean?

The judgment

履虎尾，不咥人，亨。Treading on the tiger's tail, and it does not bite. Success.Zhou Yi 周易, 履, judgment. Source

The image

上天下澤，履；君子以辨上下，定民志。Heaven above, the lake below. The noble person tells high from low and settles people's aims.Zhou Yi 周易, 履, image. Source

The six lines

Read from the bottom up. In a cast, only the lines that move are read, and they turn the hexagram into another one. Here they are in the original; a reading translates the moving lines and reads them for the question asked.

1. First line初九：素履，往无咎。
2. Second line九二：履道坦坦，幽人貞吉。
3. Third line六三：眇能視，跛能履，履虎尾，咥人，凶。武人為于大君。
4. Fourth line九四：履虎尾，愬愬終吉。
5. Fifth line九五：夬履，貞厲。
6. Top line上九：視履考詳，其旋元吉。

The Chinese is the received text of the Zhou Yi; the English is ours. Lines and images that speak of punishments, prisons, illness or money are left out. For entertainment and self-reflection.

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