Hexagram 38: Opposition火澤睽 · Kuí

• Upper trigram　Lí, Fire: light, clarity and attachment.
• Lower trigram　Duì, Lake: joy, exchange and open conversation.

The Judgment

In small matters, good fortune.

小事吉。

Our plain English rendering, with the Zhouyi original

Reading

Fire rises and water sinks: divergence and difference. Today suits accepting each other's differences and finding agreement on small things first, without insisting on sameness.

Something to do today

• With someone who sees things differently, first agree on one small thing.

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.