I Ching · Hexagram 60
Jié: Limitation
A lake holds only so much water; beyond that it overflows. Jie is setting healthy limits, sensible ones, neither too loose nor too harsh.
- Keywords
- Limits, moderation, boundaries, structure
- Upper trigram
- Water (Kan)
- Lower trigram
- Lake (Dui)
- Advice
- Set limits you can keep; rules that are too strict break.
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.