Hexagram 16

Hexagram 16 (Enthusiasm) - Thunder over Earth - Delight, exuberance, invigoration, skills, channelled energy.

Hexagram 16

Hex16_Simple

16: Enthusiasm

豫 (yù)

 

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20: Contemplation

Themes / Alternate Names / Structure

Delight, exuberance, invigoration, skills, channelled energy

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Thunder over Earth.

Hosts: Line 4 (Yang)

Opposite Hexagram: 9 (Small Taming)
Inverse Hexagram: 15 (Modesty)
Mutual Hexagram: 39 (Obstruction)

Trigram4_Thunder

Thunder Trigram

震 zhèn

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Trigram4_Thunder

Thunder Trigram

Correspondences / Themes

#4
1st Son. Dragon. Birth. Feet. Spring. East. Wood.

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The Arousing, to share, galvanize, provoking movement, impulsive, stimulate, power, revolution.

Trigram8_Earth

Earth Trigram

坤 kūn

Trigram8_Earth

Earth Trigram

Correspondences / Themes

#8
Mother. Cow. Womb. Belly. Early Autumn. SW. Earth. Soil.

The Receptive, to give away, yielding, intuitive, devotional, nurturing and cultivating.

When a particular line of a hexagram changes from Yin to Yang or vice versa, a new "Change Hexagram" is created. The below section details each of the 6 Change Hexagrams for Hexagram 16

The principal line of the hexagram on which the central theme for divination focuses. In most (but not all) cases, the host resides in the second or fifth place (central places within their trigrams), of which the fifth place is most common.  Some hexagrams have more than one hosts. my color adobe mission uses Master Alfred Huang's The Complete I Ching as its reference guide for hexagram hosts.  The hexagram icons below with line detail show the Host line in BOLD outline.

 

When a hexagram is written in reverse order (Line 6 becomes Line 1, Line 5 becomes Line 2, etc), an Inverse Hexagram is created.

A hexagram's opposite is the hexagram where each Yin line is Yang and vice versa.  For example, hexagram 1 (The Creative, all Yang lines) and hexagram 2 (The Receptive, all Yin lines) are opposites.

A mutual hexagram is formed by the "mutual" trigrams formed by Lines 2/3/4 and Lines 3/4/5. 

Line Change Detail

 

This image shows what “change hexagram” results when each line changes from yin to yang (or vice versa).

The 6 flip boxes below show the changing hexagram pair for each line in larger detail.

Hex16_Simple

Line 1

 

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L1_Yin

Hex51_Simple

Line 1

L1_Yang

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Hex16_Simple

Line 2

 

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L2_Yin

Hex40_Simple

Line 2

L2_Yang

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Hex16_Simple

Line 3

 

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Hex62_Simple

Line 3

L3_Yang

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Hex16_Simple

Line 4

 

L4_Yang

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Hex02_Simple

Line 4

 

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L4_Yin

Hex16_Simple

Line 5

 

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L5_Yin

Hex45_Simple

Line 5

 

L5_Yang

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Hex16_Simple

Line 6

 

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Hex35_Simple

Line 6

L6_Yang

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