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易 · #41

損

Decrease

Hexagram 41

Hexagram 41 Decrease (損)

Upper

艮Mountain山

Lower

兌Lake澤

Meaning · modern paraphrase

Decrease; take from below to give above, and the great way opens.

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Related hexagrams

Opposite (錯卦)咸Influence

Inverted (綜卦)益Increase

Same upper trigram

蒙Youthful Folly 蠱Work on the Decayed 賁Grace 剝Splitting Apart 大畜Great Taming 頤Nourishment 艮Keeping Still

Same lower trigram

履Treading 臨Approach 睽Opposition 歸妹The Marrying Maiden 兌The Joyous 節Limitation 中孚Inner Truth

The I Ching is a traditional divination classic, for reflection and reference.