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Meaning and interpretation

30 · Li

Shared clarity needs an explanation others can examine.

Symbols and details in the image

Notice six lines numbered from below: 4 solid and 2 broken. Which detail catches your attention first? Explore the image and connect that detail with your question: gestures, shapes and contrasts open up new associations.

Image order, from bottom to top:

  • Line 1: solid
  • Line 2: broken
  • Line 3: solid
  • Line 4: solid
  • Line 5: broken
  • Line 6: solid

30 · Li: interpretation

Which concrete example would show how you reached a conclusion?

A reading step by step

Try this example with changing lines: enter 9, 8, 7, 7, 8, 7 from bottom to top. Line 1 changes. Nine is changing yang and six is changing yin; seven and eight remain stable. Open the reading to follow the initial hexagram into the relating one.

  • Initial figure · 30 · Li: Shared clarity needs an explanation others can examine.
  • Related figure · 56 · Lu: Travel or a new context calls for learning local rules.

History and inspiration

The sixty-four hexagrams combine six solid or broken lines, read from bottom to top. Each entry presents the figure and a contemporary reading of its themes. In a consultation, stable and changing lines connect the primary and relating hexagrams; your result keeps that sequence.

30 · Li · six lines numbered from below: 4 solid and 2 broken