Hexagram 58
The Joyous
兌
Upper
Lake · 兌
the joyous, open
Lower
Lake · 兌
the joyous, open
Contemporary judgment
Joy: genuine and shared. The kind of joy that arises naturally when people meet in openness and truth. Express it; multiply it by sharing it. But keep the joy true; joy manufactured for effect is the opposite of this hexagram's blessing.
Image
Lakes resting upon each other. The superior person joins with friends for conversation and practice.
Counsel
Spend time with people who nourish you, and in whose company you nourish them. Do not perform cheerfulness you do not feel; but do not refuse the real delight of being with others either. The joy that arises from honest contact with life is itself a kind of medicine.
The six lines
Numbered from the bottom upward; displayed here from first to sixth.
Line 1
A nine at the beginning means: Contented joy. Good fortune!
Line 2
A nine in the second place means: Sincere joy. Good fortune! Remorse vanishes.
Line 3
A six in the third place means: Coming joy. Misfortune!
Line 4
A nine in the fourth place means: Deliberated joy is not at rest. After laying off the faults, one has joy.
Line 5
A nine in the fifth place means: Truthfulness toward the disintegrating is dangerous.
Line 6
A six at the top means: Seductive joy.
Contemporary sections are original app interpretations. Line text comes from the CC0 translation in jesshewitt/i-ching.