Hexagram 16: Enthusiasm雷地豫 · Yù

• Upper trigram　Zhèn, Thunder: arousal, beginnings and sudden change.
• Lower trigram　Kūn, Earth: receptivity, support and going with the flow.

The Judgment

It furthers to appoint helpers and set the troops in motion.

利建侯行師。

Our plain English rendering, with the Zhouyi original

Reading

Thunder bursts from the earth: joy and uplift. Today suits acting in good spirits, and preparing ahead so your enthusiasm has a good direction.

Something to do today

• Do something you look forward to, and schedule it first.

How a hexagram is cast

The three-coin method: toss three coins together, counting heads as 3 and tails as 2. The total, 6, 7, 8 or 9, gives one line; six tosses, recorded from the bottom up, make a hexagram. A 6 (old yin) or 9 (old yang) is a changing line, which turns this hexagram into another and shows where things are heading.