I Ching · Hexagram 10
Lǚ: Treading
The image is of stepping on a tiger's tail without being bitten: moving through a delicate situation with good manners and awareness. How you behave decides how safely you pass.
- Keywords
- Conduct, care, courtesy, risk
- Upper trigram
- Heaven (Qian)
- Lower trigram
- Lake (Dui)
- Advice
- Stay courteous and alert, and know your place in the situation.
Changing lines
When you cast this hexagram, any changing line is turning into its opposite: yang into yin, or yin into yang. Changing them gives a second hexagram that suggests where things are heading. Hexagram meanings are a starting point for reflection, not predictions.