䷏ Hexagram 16: Providing-For

Judgment

ENTHUSIASM. It furthers one to install helpers and to set armies marching.

Image

Thunder comes resounding out of the earth: The image of ENTHUSIASM. Thus the ancient kings made music in order to honour virtue, and offered it with splendour to the Supreme Deity, inviting their ancestors to be present.

Description
Hexagram 16 is named 豫 (yù), “Providing-For”. Other variations include “enthusiasm” and “excess”. Its inner (lower) trigram is ☷ (坤 kūn) field = (地) earth, and its outer (upper) trigram is ☳ (震 zhèn) shake = (雷) thunder.