Hexagram 16 · King Wen sequence

Hexagram 16: Enthusiasm

豫 · Yu

motivationmomentumreadiness

Energy is rising and can mobilize people, but enthusiasm needs direction to avoid becoming noise.

Upper and lower trigrams

Upper: Thunder震 · Zhen · arousing movementLower: Earth坤 · Kun · receptive support

Reflection meaning

Energy is rising and can mobilize people, but enthusiasm needs direction to avoid becoming noise.

Channel excitement into a plan, create rhythm, and make sure momentum serves a real aim.

If this hexagram appears in a changing reading

Changing lines mark the parts of the six-line figure that move from yin to yang or yang to yin. Those changes generate a second hexagram. Oracle Mirror presents the first hexagram as the current symbolic pattern and the transformed hexagram as a second lens on the direction of change; it does not treat the second figure as a guaranteed future event.

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