Hexagram 50 · King Wen sequence
Hexagram 50: The Cauldron
鼎 · Ding
Raw material can be transformed into something that feeds a larger purpose.
Upper and lower trigrams
Reflection meaning
Raw material can be transformed into something that feeds a larger purpose.
Improve the vessel, refine what goes into it, and build conditions where transformation can be repeated.
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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