The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 50

What does I Ching hexagram 50, The Cauldron, mean?

The judgment

鼎：元吉，亨。The cauldron: great good fortune. Success.Zhou Yi 周易, 鼎, judgment. Source

The image

木上有火，鼎；君子以正位凝命。Fire above wood. The noble person keeps their position upright and firms their mandate.Zhou Yi 周易, 鼎, 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初六：鼎顛趾，利出否，得妾以其子，无咎。
2. Second lineLeft out: this line speaks of a subject this site doesn't read.
3. Third line九三：鼎耳革，其行塞，雉膏不食，方雨虧悔，終吉。
4. Fourth lineLeft out: this line speaks of a subject this site doesn't read.
5. Fifth line六五：鼎黃耳金鉉，利貞。
6. Top line上九：鼎玉鉉，大吉，无不利。

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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