Revolution · Ze Huo Ge
Revolution — the change that arrives only after the old has failed.
The traditional reading
Hexagram 49 is the molting of a skin — a change so complete it deserves the name revolution. But it is not a whim: the old order must already have failed before the new is justified. Time the change to trust, make it clean and public, and then do not look back. You are renewing the seasons, not just the surface.
Structure of the hexagram
- Lower trigram: Fire (Li) · Fire
- Upper trigram: Lake (Dui) · Metal
- House: Water (Kan) · Water
- Text in the original Chinese: 泽火革