The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 16
What does I Ching hexagram 16, Ease, mean?
豫Thunder 震 above
Earth 坤 below
Hexagram 16 of the I Ching is Ease (豫), Thunder over Earth. Its judgment opens “Ease: it pays to appoint helpers and set troops moving.”
The judgment
豫：利建侯行師。Ease: it pays to appoint helpers and set troops moving.Zhou Yi 周易, 豫, judgment. Source
The image
雷出地奮，豫。先王以作樂崇德，殷薦之上帝，以配祖考。Thunder comes out of the earth and it stirs. The old kings made music to honour virtue, offered it to the High God and included their ancestors.Zhou Yi 周易, 豫, 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.
- First line初六：鳴豫，凶。
- Second line六二：介于石，不終日，貞吉。
- Third line六三：盱豫，悔。遲有悔。
- Fourth line九四：由豫，大有得。勿疑。朋盍戠。
- Fifth lineLeft out: this line speaks of a subject this site doesn't read.
- Top line上六：冥豫，成有渝，无咎。
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