I Ching · Hexagram 36
Míng Yí: Darkening of the Light
The sun has sunk beneath the earth. Ming Yi is a dark time when your light is not welcome, and it is wiser to keep it burning inside than to show it.
- Keywords
- Adversity, hidden light, resilience, discretion
- Upper trigram
- Earth (Kun)
- Lower trigram
- Fire (Li)
- Advice
- Stay true inwardly, be discreet outwardly, and endure.
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.