The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 18

What does I Ching hexagram 18, Repairing Decay, mean?

The judgment

蠱：元亨。利涉大川。先甲三日，後甲三日。Repairing decay: great success. It pays to cross the great river. Three days before the start, three days after.Zhou Yi 周易, 蠱, judgment. Source

The image

山下有風，蠱；君子以振民育德。Wind under a mountain. The noble person stirs people up and feeds character.Zhou Yi 周易, 蠱, 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初六：幹父之蠱，有子考，无咎，厲終吉。
2. Second line九二：幹母之蠱，不可貞。
3. Third line九三：幹父之蠱，小有悔，无大咎。
4. Fourth line六四：裕父之蠱，往見吝。
5. Fifth line六五：幹父之蠱，用譽。
6. Top line上九：不事王侯，高尚其事。

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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