The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 53

What does I Ching hexagram 53, Little by Little, mean?

The judgment

漸：女歸吉，利貞。Little by little: the woman goes to marry, good fortune. It pays to hold firm.Zhou Yi 周易, 漸, judgment. Source

The image

山上有木，漸；君子以居賢德，善俗。A tree on a mountain. The noble person dwells in good character and improves local ways.Zhou Yi 周易, 漸, 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：鴻漸于干，小子厲，有言，无咎。
2. Second line六二：鴻漸于磐，飲食衎衎，吉。
3. Third lineLeft out: this line speaks of a subject this site doesn't read.
4. Fourth line六四：鴻漸于木，或得其桷，无咎。
5. Fifth lineLeft out: this line speaks of a subject this site doesn't read.
6. Top line上九：鴻漸于陸，其羽可用為儀，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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