Hexagram 16 as yes or no
Hexagram 16 Delight as a yes-or-no answer
To a yes-or-no question Yu answers yes, with the Tuan's qualifier: 'moving in accordance with compliance.' What you ask about has momentum — thunder is out of the ground — and the judgment approves setting out. The hexagram asks whether the movement follows the natural order or runs on excitement alone; the former carries, the latter exhausts itself.
The changing line decides. One is no: you are already too pleased; the will is spent. Two is yes, and now: act on the first sign without waiting out the day. Three is no while you look up for someone else's favour; correct that, then ask again. Four is a strong yes: you are the source, do not doubt. Five is a cautious hold: keep the position, do not grab at what has moved below you. Six is yes to changing course, however late. A lower-trigram changing line means the enthusiasm is another's and the answer rests on your composure; an upper-trigram one means the energy is or was yours, and the answer is whether it still follows the grain.
The hexagram in brief
Thunder bursting out of the earth: music, enthusiasm, movement in harmony with the time. Favourable to appoint helpers and set things in motion.
Let genuine enthusiasm move others — but prepare in advance, and don't let delight slide into complacency.
The judgment
豫：利建侯，行師。Yü indicates that, (in the state which it implies), feudal princes may be set up, and the hosts put in motion, with advantage.
Which line changed?
A changing line sharpens the answer. Each line of 豫 Delight has its own page:
- 初六Six at the beginningcrowing delight · will exhausted · misfortune
- 六二Six in the second placefirm as rock · not waiting a day · seeing the seed
- 六三Six in the third placegazing upward · regret · too late
- 九四Nine in the fourth placesource of delight · do not doubt · friends gather
- 六五Six in the fifth placepersistent ailment · does not die · riding the strong
- 上六Six at the topdarkened delight · change even when complete · no blame
The same hexagram for
Questions
- Does hexagram 16, Delight, mean yes or no?
- To a yes-or-no question Yu answers yes, with the Tuan's qualifier: 'moving in accordance with compliance.' What you ask about has momentum — thunder is out of the ground — and the judgment approves setting out. The hexagram asks whether the movement follows the natural order or runs on excitement alone; the former carries, the latter exhausts itself.
- What does Hexagram 16, 豫 Delight, mean?
- Thunder bursting out of the earth: music, enthusiasm, movement in harmony with the time. Favourable to appoint helpers and set things in motion.
Chinese text: the received Zhouyi (Wuyingdian lineage). English: James Legge, The Yî King, Sacred Books of the East XVI, 1882 (public domain).