The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 41

What does I Ching hexagram 41, Less, mean?

The judgment

損：有孚，元吉。无咎，可貞，利有攸往。曷之用？二簋可用享。Less: with trust, great good fortune and no blame. You can hold firm, and it pays to set out. What is to be used? Two plain bowls will do for the offering.Zhou Yi 周易, 損, judgment. Source

The image

山下有澤，損；君子以懲忿窒欲。A lake under a mountain. The noble person curbs anger and holds back desire.Zhou Yi 周易, 損, 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：祀事遄往，无咎，酌損之。
2. Second line九二：利貞，征凶，弗損益之。
3. Third line六三：三人行，則損一人；一人行，則得其友。
4. Fourth lineLeft out: this line speaks of a subject this site doesn't read.
5. Fifth line六五：或益之，十朋之龜弗克違，元吉。
6. Top line上九：弗損益之，无咎，貞吉，利有攸往，得臣无家。

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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