The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 49

What does I Ching hexagram 49, Molting, mean?

The judgment

革：已日乃孚，元亨。利貞。悔亡。Molting: on the day it is done, trust follows. Great success. It pays to hold firm. Regret goes away.Zhou Yi 周易, 革, judgment. Source

The image

澤中有火，革；君子以治歷明時。Fire inside the lake. The noble person orders the calendar and makes the seasons clear.Zhou Yi 周易, 革, 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：鞏用黃牛之革。
2. Second line六二：已日乃革之，征吉，无咎。
3. Third line九三：征凶，貞厲，革言三就，有孚。
4. Fourth line九四：悔亡，有孚改命，吉。
5. Fifth line九五：大人虎變，未占有孚。
6. Top line上六：君子豹變，小人革面，征凶，居貞吉。

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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