I Ching · Hexagram 50
Dǐng: The Cauldron
Wood feeds the fire under a cauldron, cooking raw food into nourishment. Ding is transformation into something of value, and the care given to what is worth keeping.
- Keywords
- Transformation, nourishment, culture, refinement
- Upper trigram
- Fire (Li)
- Lower trigram
- Wind (Xun)
- Advice
- Refine your gifts and offer them where they can nourish others.
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.