The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 61

What does I Ching hexagram 61, Trust Within, mean?

The judgment

中孚：豚魚吉，利涉大川，利貞。Trust within: good fortune even for pigs and fish. It pays to cross the great river, and to hold firm.Zhou Yi 周易, 中孚, judgment. 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：虞吉，有它不燕。
2. Second line九二：鳴鶴在陰，其子和之，我有好爵，吾與爾靡之。
3. Third line六三：得敵，或鼓或罷，或泣或歌。
4. Fourth line六四：月既望，馬匹亡，无咎。
5. Fifth line九五：有孚攣如，无咎。
6. Top line上九：翰音登于天，貞凶。

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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