The word
悔, huǐ, is "regret" in Cambios: something you're sorry for, a mistake you see afterward. In the old language of divination it may also have meant a setback or a minor trouble.
The formulas
- Regret (悔), sometimes "there is regret" (有悔). In the sixth line of Activity: "A dragon that climbs too high. There is regret." It went further than it should.
- Regret vanishes (悔亡). One of the most frequent formulas: what would have given cause for regret is gone, or resolves.
- No regret (无悔): there will be nothing to be sorry for.
A direction
The Great Commentary groups regret with distress and calls them images of worry. Zhu Xi, the great 12th-century commentator, saw them pointing opposite ways: regret moves from bad toward good, because someone who regrets corrects course; distress moves from good toward bad, because someone who doesn't gets stuck. It's a traditional reading, but a useful one.
In a reading
If you get "there is regret," look at where you're overstepping: excess, haste, ambition without measure. If you get "regret vanishes," something weighing on you can be left behind, usually because your attitude shifts. On the scale of good fortune and misfortune, it sits a step below no fault.