Hexagram 16 for love
Hexagram 16 Delight in love and relationships
Yu is thunder breaking out of the earth: energy released after being held, the moment the music starts. In a relationship it is enthusiasm — a courtship that has caught, a partnership newly energised, feeling that moves people because it moves with the time. The Tuan calls it 'moving in accordance with compliance,' and the qualifier matters: delight is good when it follows what is natural and sours when forced or indulged.
The lines are the shapes enthusiasm takes between two people. One crows about being favoured and spoils it; two keeps its stillness and sees the signs early; three gazes upward for a share of the other's glow and regrets it. Four is the source of the delight, told only not to doubt; five holds the formal place while the energy has passed to the other; six has let pleasure run into dullness and can still turn. A changing line in the lower trigram asks how you respond to another's warmth; in the upper trigram, where the energy in the bond really lies and whether it has run too long.
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
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Questions
- Is hexagram 16, Delight, a good sign for love?
- Yu is thunder breaking out of the earth: energy released after being held, the moment the music starts. In a relationship it is enthusiasm — a courtship that has caught, a partnership newly energised, feeling that moves people because it moves with the time. The Tuan calls it 'moving in accordance with compliance,' and the qualifier matters: delight is good when it follows what is natural and sours when forced or indulged.
- 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).