22 - Grace

Contemporary Interpretation

22 - Grace

Clarity and intuition
bear determination

Clarity
And intuition
Bear
Determination:
Determination
To
Disengage.

Follow the Path of the Dao: A Western Approximation

The Hexagram's Inner Trigrams

yang yin yin yang yin yang

Upper Trigram: Gen, Mountain

2nd Core Character: Zhen, Thunder

1st Core Character: Kan, Water

Lower Trigram: Li, Fire

The Hexagram's Inner Trigrams in the Context of Yin and Yang

The hexagram's inner trigrams within the fields of Yin and Yang

Changes and Impulses

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Grace (22) signifies undyed.

The image

Low at the mountain is fire: the image of grace. Thus the superior man proceeds with clarifying current affairs, but then does not dare to decide controversial issues.

The judgement

Grace has success. In small matters it furthers to do something. Full text of Richard Wilhelm's 1924 translation by Cary F. Baynes