I Ching · Hexagram 22
Bì: Grace
Fire lights the foot of the mountain and makes it beautiful. Bi is the grace of form and appearance, which helps in small matters but cannot replace substance.
- Keywords
- Beauty, form, presentation, sincerity
- Upper trigram
- Mountain (Gen)
- Lower trigram
- Fire (Li)
- Advice
- Present things well, but make sure there is something real beneath the polish.
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.