The 64 Hexagrams

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A Clear Resolution

Upper trigram: Lake · Lower trigram: Heaven

Judgment

Resolution calls for open declaration and vigilance, not an immediate resort to force.

Image

Lake above Heaven; from bottom to top: yang, yang, yang, yang, yang, yin.

Make evidence, process, and follow-through clearer than anger.

Six lines and their changes

  1. 1 / 6

    An aggressive first step outruns the strength behind it.

    Move this line → A Burden Too Great
  2. 2 / 6

    A timely warning makes unexpected danger less disorganizing.

    Move this line → Changing the Established Order
  3. 3 / 6

    Firm resolve need not advertise itself as anger.

    Move this line → Joy in Exchange
  4. 4 / 6

    Accept guidance when stubborn movement has become painful.

    Move this line → Waiting with Readiness
  5. 5 / 6

    Remove persistent growth without abandoning proportion.

    Move this line → Strength with Limits
  6. 6 / 6

    A final silence removes the warning that might still help.

    Move this line → Heaven in Motion

Library links use the structural middle-four transform. Meihua casting applies its separate Heaven/Earth exception to a moving figure.

A Clear Resolution · Upper trigram / Lower trigram?

Lake / Heaven. Lake above Heaven; from bottom to top: yang, yang, yang, yang, yang, yin.

A Clear Resolution · Move this line?

Change exactly one line, numbered from the bottom. Each of the six links below leads to the resulting figure.

Cast with this figure

Classical source · Traditional symbols offer a perspective for reflection, not a prediction of inevitable events.