| Name | 兑 Duì, “The Joyous” |
|---|---|
| Upper trigram | ☱ 兑 Lake: openness and exchange |
| Lower trigram | ☱ 兑 Lake: openness and exchange |
The Judgment
亨，利贞。
Success. Wise to stay true.
Real joy lands when it's honest. Stay grounded in it — don't perform happiness.
The Image
丽泽，兑；君子以朋友讲习。
Lakes resting on each other — The Joyous. The wise join with their friends in discussion and practice.
Joy multiplies through honest conversation. Find your people, talk it through, sharpen each other.
The six lines
If a line changes in your cast, read its text below. Lines are numbered from the bottom.
Line 1 · first (bottom) · Yang
和兑，吉。
Inner joy. Fortune.
The kind of happy that doesn't need a witness. Most stable form of joy.
Line 2 · second · Yang
孚兑，吉，悔亡。
Sincere joy. Fortune. Regret vanishes.
Joy that's real, not curated. Whatever you doubted about feeling it dissolves.
Line 3 · third · Yin
来兑，凶。
Coming joy. Misfortune.
Looking outside yourself for something to make you happy. That kind of joy doesn't stick — and bringing it home costs you.
Line 4 · fourth · Yang
商兑，未宁，介疾有喜。
Joy weighed. There is no peace. After an illness — joy.
Stuck calculating whether you're allowed to be happy. Once you stop measuring, the joy actually comes — like a fever breaking.
Line 5 · fifth · Yang
孚于剥，有厉。
Sincere — but toward something corrosive. Danger.
Real about the wrong thing. Genuine investment in something that's eating you. Wake up.
Line 6 · top · Yin
引兑。
Seductive joy.
The kind of happy designed to pull you in. Beautiful — and not yours. See it clearly.
Related hexagrams
- Inverted (turned upside down): Hexagram 57, The Gentle
- Complement (every line reversed): Hexagram 52, Keeping Still