The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 60

What does I Ching hexagram 60, Limits, mean?

The judgment

節：亨。苦節不可貞。Limits: success. Bitter limits can't be held to.Zhou Yi 周易, 節, judgment. Source

The image

澤上有水，節；君子以制數度，議德行。Water above the lake. The noble person sets measures and weighs conduct.Zhou Yi 周易, 節, 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：不出戶庭，无咎。
2. Second line九二：不出門庭，凶。
3. Third line六三：不節若，則嗟若，无咎。
4. Fourth line六四：安節，亨。
5. Fifth line九五：甘節，吉；往有尚。
6. Top line上六：苦節，貞凶，悔亡。

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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