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Transformation · lines 1, 2, 4, and 5

Good Manners becomes Lack of Firmness

賁 22 Good Manners 姤 44 Lack of Firmness
Starting hexagram
Resulting hexagram

What this change means

With the first, second, fourth and fifth lines moving, Good Manners turns into 44 Lack of Firmness. The still lines of the resulting hexagram lead. The third says you can recognize adverse people or conditions, yet you're tempted to let them influence you, and setting them aside will take real effort. The top line says that keeping your distance from unsuitable people may make you look proud and aloof, but that's better than getting involved. This is where good manners can turn into a weakness. Being pleasant to everyone can leave the door open to people or habits that do you no good. Courtesy doesn't require closeness. Be polite, be clear, and hold your distance, even if someone reads it as coldness.

What to read, in order

Marked ● is what Zhu Xi's tradition puts at the center for this number of moving lines.

  1. Line 3 of 44 Lack of Firmness, which stays still

    You know adverse conditions or people exist and you can recognize them, but you're tempted to let them influence you. It will take a great effort to set them aside.

    Buttocks without skin; the walk falters. Danger. No great fault.

  2. Line 6 of 44 Lack of Firmness, which stays still

    Your distance from unsuitable people makes you look proud and aloof, but that's better than getting involved with them.

    Meeting with the horns. Distress. No fault.

  3. The judgment of 22 Good Manners

    It's a time to be kind and courteous and to use good manners with others if you want good results in what you undertake. What might seem superficial at another time leads you to success now. It's a time to handle everyday matters, not great undertakings.

    Success. In small things, it is favorable to have somewhere to go.

  4. Line 1 of 22 Good Manners

    Success in everyday matters now depends on using the resources that are yours, and no more.

    Adorning the feet; leaving the carriage and going on foot.

  5. Line 2 of 22 Good Manners

    Pay attention to what is essential; combining it with good manners will bring you achievement.

    Adorning the beard.

  6. Line 4 of 22 Good Manners

    A time of great well-being is coming, and you can allow yourself to enjoy it.

    Adorned and white; a white horse as if on wings. Not a raider: one who comes to ask for marriage.

  7. Line 5 of 22 Good Manners

    Your genuine inner attitude, small as it may seem to you, is welcomed and accepted in higher circles.

    Adornment on the hill and in the garden. The roll of silk is meager. Distress; in the end, good fortune.

  8. The judgment of 44 Lack of Firmness

    You're surrounded by unsuitable people or situations. You know it, but you think you have the power to control them and don't take them very seriously; it may even be a bad habit. If you don't pay attention and set firm limits, they'll take control over you and you won't be able to pull away.

    The woman is strong. Do not take her as a wife.

The trigrams

Below Fire Wind
Above Mountain Heaven

The way back

44 Lack of Firmness → 22 Good Manners
lines 1, 2, 4, and 5

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