49 story

The image of hexagram 49
Gé, revolution

Hexagram 49 has trigram Lí, Fire, below or inside, Duì, Marsh, above or outside. Lí shows inner order, clear ideas, insight. Duì is openness and the art of persuasion. The two can fight each other or create a perfect balance of movement.

What does it mean, 'inner' and 'outer trigram' (popup)

When trigram Lí is below (popup

When trigram Duì is above (popup)

Lí below Duì: the inner fire has a vision how things should be, and to the outside there is the community of people, then this vision can grow into a common wish to change things for the better. "Regulating the times" is making everything in accord with the will of Heaven. It means not only regulating people's affairs such that they are in harmony with the seasons, but also imitating the laws of heaven here down on earth, so the spirits will bless man's actions.

The old diviners gave this combination of trigrams a name: Gé, molting. It is the ability to change with times or visions, to find, follow or create the transitions from one situation to another, and to compromise and balance instead of fighting and dividing.

Ideogram of the hexagram name: an animal skin, mounted on a frame of tied-together branches so it can be scraped clean. It is also the skinning of reptiles and insects or the molting of furry animals.

The Image says: In the middle of the lake is fire: skinning. A noble one, by regulating the times, makes the seasons clear.

Hex.49 is the contrast of 4, which is about a clouded mind or ignorance.
Hex.49 is about knowing or showing what should be changed because it is not right anymore. Streetwise versus the gullability of hex.4.

  Story:
  Cast off what is obsolete or wrong, or not right for the coming times. Take away a skin or other outside that hinders life. Not all skins can grow, the ones who cannot have to be renewed when the time has come.
  It has to be done at the right time, when the old is on the point of breaking, and the new has the possibility to grow. Like the snake sheds his skin at the exact right moment. Sì-day is the day of the snake, the best possible day for skinning.

The image of hexagram 49 Gé, revolution

The image of hexagram 49
Gé, revolution