I Ching: Friday, October 2

One of the sixty-four hexagrams

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The Joyous

Hexagram 58 is two lakes lying alongside one another, feeding each other. It is about joy, speech and exchange, and its Judgment is brief: success, it rewards holding to the course. The Image is the closest thing in the book to a seminar: the noble person joins with friends for discussion and practice. The classic's model of learning is conversation between people who keep at it together. Today, talk. Find the person whose thinking refills yours and spend an hour on the thing you are both working on. The joy is real and it is a by-product. The course is the practice, kept together.

For your star sign

The same reading, taken through each sign of the zodiac.

Aries

You will win the discussion. Today join it. The two lakes feed each other, and the one that wins drains the other and is left standing alone.

Taurus

You practise alone. Today practise with a friend. The Joyous is exchange, and the lake with nobody beside it does not refill.

Gemini

This is your hexagram and the Judgment adds the course. Today talk, and keep to the thing you are practising rather than every thing you could discuss.

Cancer

You join for company and skip the practice. Today the Image is both. Discussion and practice, with a friend, on the work; the joy comes from the second half.

Leo

You will hold the seminar. Today attend one. The two lakes are level, and the one that rises above the other stops being fed.

Virgo

You discuss and correct. Today discuss and practise. The Joyous is exchange without the grading, and the practice is where the correction lives.

Libra

Conversation is your medium and the course is the addition. Today talk with one friend about one thing until it advances. Joy is the by-product of the holding.

Scorpio

You do not discuss your work. Today discuss it with one person. The lake that feeds nobody is not replenished, and yours has been low.

Sagittarius

You will discuss the large thing and practise nothing. Today the seminar has a subject. Talk about the actual work and then do some of it, together.

Capricorn

You work alone and call it discipline. Today the discipline is shared. Join with a friend for practice, and the course is held better by two.

Aquarius

You discuss ideas and skip the friend. Today the friend is the point. Two lakes, feeding each other, on something you are both practising.

Pisces

You will drift through the conversation joyfully. Today hold the course through it. The Joyous rewards the steadiness, and the drift is joy becoming its own object.

For your Chinese animal

The same reading, taken through each animal of the Chinese zodiac.

Rat

You will discuss to gain and practise to win. Today exchange. The two lakes feed each other, and the one that only takes runs dry.

Ox

You practise steadily and say nothing. Today say something, to a friend, about the practice. The Joyous is the conversation, and yours is unspoken.

Tiger

You will dominate the discussion. Today share it. The Joyous is two lakes level with each other, and the louder one is not fed.

Rabbit

You listen in the seminar and rarely speak. Today speak. The exchange needs your lake to overflow into theirs as well.

Dragon

You will lecture. Today discuss. The Image is friends, level, and the lecture is one lake trying to be a mountain.

Snake

You keep the practice private. Today join with one friend for it. The lake alone holds; the two lakes grow, and growing is the hexagram.

Horse

You will join the discussion and leave for another. Today stay in one. The course is held by staying, and the joy is in the second hour.

Goat

You join gladly and practise little. Today practise. The Joyous has two halves, and the discussion without the work is a lake without a source.

Monkey

You will make the seminar funny. Today make it useful. Discussion and practice, on the actual thing; the wit can feed the lake afterwards.

Rooster

You will discuss and find fault. Today discuss and refill. The Joyous is exchange between friends, and the fault-finding empties the other lake.

Dog

You join with friends loyally and defer to them. Today contribute. Your lake feeds theirs too, and deference is a way of withholding the water.

Pig

This is your hexagram: joy, friends, exchange. Today the addition is the course. Keep to the practice while you enjoy the company, and the joy lasts past the meal.

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