Hexagram 60: Limitation水澤節 · Jié

• Upper trigram　Kǎn, Water: danger, flow and keeping faith through difficulty.
• Lower trigram　Duì, Lake: joy, exchange and open conversation.

The Judgment

Success. Limitation that is bitter cannot be kept up.

亨。苦節不可貞。

Our plain English rendering, with the Zhouyi original

Reading

Restraint and a sense of measure. Today suits setting reasonable limits on time, spending or emotions, without being too harsh on yourself.

Something to do today

• Set a reasonable cap on today's phone or entertainment time.

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.