The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 22

What does I Ching hexagram 22, Adornment, mean?

The judgment

賁：亨。小利有攸往。Adornment: success. Small gains in setting out.Zhou Yi 周易, 賁, judgment. 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：賁其趾，舍車而徒。
2. Second line六二：賁其須。
3. Third line九三：賁如濡如，永貞吉。
4. Fourth line六四：賁如皤如，白馬翰如，匪寇婚媾。
5. Fifth line六五：賁於丘園，束帛戔戔，吝，終吉。
6. Top line上九：白賁，无咎。

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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