Fu
The Turning Point
When you receive Hexagram 24, Fu, the I Ching turns your attention to the turning point. Return. Below is its judgment, its image, and the meaning of each changing line.
The Judgment
Return. Free course and progress. No one to hinder in exits and entrances. Friends come, and no error is committed. One returns and repeats the proper course. In seven days comes the return. It furthers to whatever direction movement is made.
Classical (Legge)Fu indicates that there will be free course and progress (in what it denotes). (The subject of it) finds no one to distress him in his exits and entrances; friends come to him, and no error is committed. He will return and repeat his (proper) course. In seven days comes his return. There will be advantage in whatever direction movement is made.
The Image
Thunder in the midst of the earth. The ancient kings, on the day of the winter solstice, shut the gates of the mountain passes so that traveling merchants could not pursue their journeys, nor the princes go on with the inspection of their states.
Classical (Legge)(The trigram representing) the earth, and that for thunder in the midst of it, form Fu. The ancient kings, in accordance with this, on the day of the (winter) solstice, shut the gates of the passes (through the mountains), so that the travelling merchants could not (then) pursue their journeys, nor the princes go on with the inspection of their states.
The Changing Lines
One has not gone far away in the return. No occasion for regret. Great good fortune.
Classical (Legge)He has not gone far away in his return. There is no occasion for repentance. There will be great good fortune.
The admirable return. Good fortune.
Classical (Legge)The admirable return (of the subject of this line). There will be good fortune.
Repeated returns. The position is perilous, but there will be no error.
Classical (Legge)He has made repeated returns. The position is perilous, but there will be no error.
Moving right in the center among the others, yet returning alone to the proper path.
Classical (Legge)He is moving right in the centre (among those represented by the other divided lines), and yet returns alone (to his proper path).
The noble return. No ground for regret.
Classical (Legge)The noble return. There will be no ground for repentance.
All astray on the subject of returning. Misfortune. There will be calamities and errors. If with these views the hosts are put in motion, the end will be a great defeat, whose reach extends to the ruler of the state. Even in ten years the disaster cannot be repaired.
Classical (Legge)He is all astray on the subject of returning. There will be evil. There will be calamities and errors. If with his views he put the hosts in motion, the end will be a great defeat, whose issues will extend to the ruler of the state. Even in ten years he will not be able to repair the disaster.
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