Gua 22
☶GenMountain
☲LiFire

— Fu Xi

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Adornment

— King Wen of Zhou

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Ancient Comments on the Image

— Duke of Zhou

Below the mountain there is fire: Adornment.
The exemplary person accordingly clarifies the manifold affairs of government, and does not dare to abruptly decide legal cases.

Judgment

— King Wen of Zhou

Adornment: success. Small advantage to have somewhere to go.

Moving Lines

— Duke of Zhou

1
Adorns its toes; leaves the carriage and goes on foot.
2
Adorns its beard.
3
Adorned as if moist, saturated as if lush; enduring steadfastness is auspicious.
4
Adorned as if pale-white, a white horse galloping as if leaping; not a raider but a marriage partner.
5
Adornment in the hill garden; bundles of silk are meager, meager; constricted, ultimately auspicious.
6
White adornment, no blame.

Ancient Comments on the Moving Lines

— Confucius

1
Leaves the carriage and goes on foot: fittingness does not ride it.
2
Adorns its beard, responding with those above.
3
The auspiciousness of enduring steadfastness: ultimately none shall override it.
4
Six Four occupies its fitting position, yet there is doubt. Not a raider but a marriage partner; ultimately no blame.
5
The auspiciousness of six five is that there is joy.
6
White adornment [is] no blame; the top one attains their intention.

Ancient Comments on the Judgment

— Confucius

Adornment, success; the yielding comes and patterns the firm, therefore success. Dividing the firm above and patterning the yielding, therefore small advantage to have somewhere to go. Firm and yielding interweaving—this is celestial pattern; patterned brightness coming to a stop—this is human pattern. Observing the celestial patterns, one discerns changes of time; observing the human patterns, one transforms and completes all under heaven.

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