The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 58
What does I Ching hexagram 58, The Lake, mean?
兌Lake 兌 above
Lake 兌 below
Hexagram 58 of the I Ching is The Lake (兌), Lake doubled. Its judgment opens “The lake: success.”
The judgment
兌：亨。利貞。The lake: success. It pays to hold firm.Zhou Yi 周易, 兌, judgment. Source
The image
麗澤，兌；君子以朋友講習。Two lakes side by side. The noble person talks and practises with friends.Zhou Yi 周易, 兌, 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.
- First line初九：和兌，吉。
- Second line九二：孚兌，吉，悔亡。
- Third line六三：來兌，凶。
- Fourth lineLeft out: this line speaks of a subject this site doesn't read.
- Fifth line九五：孚于剝，有厲。
- Top line上六：引兌。
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