The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 43

What does I Ching hexagram 43, Deciding, mean?

The judgment

夬：揚于王庭，孚號，有厲，告自邑，不利即戎，利有攸往。Deciding: it is announced in the king's court, a sincere call with danger in it. Word comes from one's own town. It doesn't pay to take up arms. It pays to set out.Zhou Yi 周易, 夬, judgment. Source

The image

澤上于天，夬；君子以施祿及下，居德則忌。The lake rises to the sky. The noble person hands rewards down and doesn't sit on their own merit.Zhou Yi 周易, 夬, 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：壯于前趾，往不勝為咎。
2. Second line九二：惕號，莫夜有戎，勿恤。
3. Third line九三：壯于頄，有凶。君子夬夬，獨行遇雨，若濡有慍，无咎。
4. Fourth line九四：臀无膚，其行次且。牽羊悔亡，聞言不信。
5. Fifth line九五：莧陸夬夬，中行无咎。
6. Top line上六：无號，終有凶。

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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