Scryway

Hexagram 58

兌 Duì · Joy

Legge: Tui

☱ Lake (Duì) above ☱ Lake (Duì)

Scryway summary

Modern commentary written for Scryway. Not part of the classic text.

Lake upon lake. Openness, conversation and pleasure that keeps faith with what is right.

The judgment

Tui intimates that (under its conditions) there will be progress and attainment. (But) it will be advantageous to be firm and correct.

The image

(Two symbols representing) the waters of a marsh, one over the other, form Tui. The superior man, in accordance with this, (encourages) the conversation of friends and (the stimulus of) their (common) practice.

The lines, bottom to top

  1. Bottom line, solid

    The first line, undivided, shows the pleasure of (inward) harmony. There will be good fortune.

  2. Second line, solid

    The second line, undivided, shows the pleasure arising from (inward) sincerity. There will be good fortune. Occasion for repentance will disappear.

  3. Third line, broken

    The third line, divided, shows its subject bringing round himself whatever can give pleasure. There will be evil.

  4. Fourth line, solid

    The fourth line, undivided, shows its subject deliberating about what to seek his pleasure in, and not at rest. He borders on what would be injurious, but there will be cause for joy.

  5. Fifth line, solid

    The fifth line, undivided, shows its subject trusting in one who would injure him. The situation is perilous.

  6. Top line, broken

    The topmost line, divided, shows the pleasure of its subject in leading and attracting others.

Quoted from James Legge (trans.), The Yi King, Sacred Books of the East vol. XVI, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1882. Public domain. The image is from Legge’s Appendix II. Words in parentheses are Legge’s additions.