Hexagram 49: Revolution澤火革 · Gé

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

The Judgment

On the day it is complete, there is trust. Supreme success; perseverance furthers; regret disappears.

巳日乃孚，元亨利貞，悔亡。

Our plain English rendering, with the Zhouyi original

Reading

Change and renewal. Today suits reviewing what needs to change, adjusting decisively when the time is right, and helping the people involved understand why.

Something to do today

• Write down one way of doing things you want to change, and the reason for it.

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.