Yu
Enthusiasm
When you receive Hexagram 16, Yu, the I Ching turns your attention to enthusiasm. Enthusiasm. Below is its judgment, its image, and the meaning of each changing line.
The Judgment
Enthusiasm. Princes may be appointed and armies set in motion with advantage.
Classical (Legge)Yu indicates that, (in the state which it implies), feudal princes may be set up, and the hosts put in motion, with advantage.
The Image
Thunder rises from the earth with great force. Yu. The ancient kings composed music to honor virtue, offering it grandly before heaven, joining their highest ancestors in the ceremony.
Classical (Legge)(The trigrams for) the earth and thunder issuing from it with great force form Yu. The ancient kings, in accordance with this, composed their music (and did honour to their virtue), presenting it especially and most grandly before God, when they associated with Him (at the service) their highest ancestor and their father.
The Changing Lines
Proclaiming pleasure and satisfaction. Misfortune.
Classical (Legge)(The subject of the line) proclaims his pleasure and satisfaction. There will be evil.
Firm as a rock. Seeing a thing before it has come to pass. Firm and correct brings good fortune.
Classical (Legge)(He is) firm as a rock. (He sees a thing) without waiting till it has come to pass. With his firm correctness there will be good fortune.
Looking upward for favor while indulging in satisfaction. Delay in acting rightly brings occasion for regret.
Classical (Legge)He looks upwards (for favours), while he indulges the feeling of pleasure and satisfaction. If he be late in doing (what is proper), there will be occasion for repentance.
The source from which harmony and satisfaction flow. Great success. Let no suspicion enter the mind, and friends will gather.
Classical (Legge)(The subject) from whom the harmony and satisfaction come. Great is the success which he obtains. Let him not allow suspicions to enter his mind, and thus friends will gather around him.
Firm and correct, yet afflicted with ailment. Still, one does not die of it.
Classical (Legge)(The subject is) firm and correct, and yet has some ailment. But he will not die (of it).
Devoted to pleasure with a darkened mind, as if it would last forever. A change of course prevents error.
Classical (Legge)With darkened (mind) devoted to the pleasure and satisfaction (of the time), as if it would last long; but if he change (his course), there will be no error.
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