The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 17

What does I Ching hexagram 17, Following, mean?

The judgment

隨：元亨。利貞。无咎。Following: great success. It pays to hold firm. No blame.Zhou Yi 周易, 隨, judgment. Source

The image

澤中有雷，隨；君子以嚮晦入宴息。Thunder inside the lake. At nightfall the noble person goes in and rests.Zhou Yi 周易, 隨, 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：官有渝，貞吉。出門交有功。
2. Second line六二：係小子，失丈夫。
3. Third line六三：係丈夫，失小子。隨，有求得利，居貞。
4. Fourth line九四：隨有獲，貞凶。有孚在道，以明，何咎。
5. Fifth line九五：孚于嘉，吉。
6. Top line上六：拘係之，乃從維之。王用亨于西山。

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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