I Ching · Hexagram 43
Guài: Breakthrough
The lake has risen up to heaven and is about to burst its banks. Guai is the moment to resolve something openly, with firmness but without violence.
- Keywords
- Resolution, breakthrough, honesty, decisiveness
- Upper trigram
- Lake (Dui)
- Lower trigram
- Heaven (Qian)
- Advice
- Speak the truth plainly and act decisively, without anger.
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.