The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 36

What does I Ching hexagram 36, Light Hidden, mean?

The judgment

明夷：利艱貞。Light hidden: it pays to hold firm through hardship.Zhou Yi 周易, 明夷, judgment. Source

The image

明入地中，明夷；君子以蒞眾，用晦而明。Brightness goes into the earth. In dealing with people, the noble person dims the light and still sees.Zhou Yi 周易, 明夷, 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：明夷于飛，垂其翼。君子于行，三日不食，有攸往，主人有言。
2. Second line六二：明夷，夷于左股，用拯馬壯，吉。
3. Third lineLeft out: this line speaks of a subject this site doesn't read.
4. Fourth line六四：入于左腹，獲明夷之心，于出門庭。
5. Fifth line六五：箕子之明夷，利貞。
6. Top line上六：不明晦，初登于天，後入于地。

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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