Hexagram 16 · Upper canon
Yu · Enthusiasm
When the mood arrives, keep a grain of clear sense.
The figure
- Number
- 16 (Upper canon)
- Upper trigram
- Thunder (Zhen)
- Lower trigram
- Earth (Kun)
- Keywords
- joy · momentum · preparing
- Reversed hexagram
- Xiao Xu · Small Accumulating
- Inverted hexagram
- Qian · Modesty
The meaning
What the name means Yu is gladness and ease, and also preparing ahead.
The picture Thunder coming out of the earth, the first spring thunder waking everything and loosening the heart.
The sense of the whole The whole hexagram is about being glad with the current. When the mood comes give it an outlet, but do not let it run ahead of the preparing. Keep one grain of clear sense in your gladness and it will not turn to grief.
In plain words: what this hexagram says
You are glad and moving with the current. Give your enthusiasm an outlet, but do not let it run ahead of your preparation.
The upper trigram is Thunder and the lower is Earth: Thunder above, Earth below. When you read it, first picture the two together as a scene, then set it against the original below. The plain words speak only of stance and do not foretell.
The judgement
利建侯行師。
The image
雷出地奮，豫；先王以作樂崇德，殷薦之上帝，以配祖考。
The six lines
From the bottom up, the first line is the lowest. When you cast this hexagram and a line is changing, read the matching one. The original is classical Chinese.
- 初六鳴豫，兇。
- 六二介於石，不終日，貞吉。
- 六三盱豫，悔；遲有悔。
- 九四由豫，大有得。勿疑，朋盍簪。
- 六五貞疾，恆不死。
- 上六冥豫，成有渝，無咎。
To learn how to read a hexagram, see "How to read a hexagram"; for changing lines, see "Changing lines and the resulting hexagram".