Bi · Grace

The meaning

What the name means Bi is adorning, dressing something so it looks good.

The picture Fire under a mountain, its light making the mountain beautiful, but only on the surface.

The sense of the whole The whole hexagram is about outside and inside. A fitting touch of adornment is courtesy, but do not let looking good cover over what is real. Make the inside solid first, then talk about the looks.

In plain words: what this hexagram says

Looks are decoration, not the inside. It is a fine time to tidy and dress up, but do not forget what is within.

The upper trigram is Mountain and the lower is Fire: Mountain above, Fire 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

亨。小利有攸往。

The image

山下有火，賁；君子以明庶政，無敢折獄。

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.

1. 初九賁其趾，舍車而徒。
2. 六二賁其須。
3. 九三賁如濡如，永貞吉。
4. 六四賁如皤如，白馬翰如，匪寇婚媾。
5. 六五賁於丘園，束帛戔戔，吝，終吉。
6. 上九白賁，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".