Hexagram 50: The Cauldron火風鼎 · Dǐng

• Upper trigram　Lí, Fire: light, clarity and attachment.
• Lower trigram　Xùn, Wind: gentleness, penetration and steady influence.

The Judgment

Supreme good fortune. Success.

元吉，亨。

Our plain English rendering, with the Zhouyi original

Reading

The cauldron cooks and nourishes: stability and achievement after renewal. Today suits bringing resources together and steadying new ways of working, so the results can last.

Something to do today

• Write up a recent new way of doing something as a few simple steps.

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.