The Joyous: success. Perseverance is favourable. Two lakes joined replenish each other — the hexagram of joy: gladness that rests on inner strength and therefore shows outwardly as gentleness. True joy, says the judgment, is not amusement but power — the people forget their toil and even their death when led in joy — yet it must stand on firmness within, or it degrades into mere pleasure-seeking that ends in dissipation.
Lakes resting one on the other: the superior person joins with friends for discussion and practice. Joy is social and it multiplies in exchange — the wise refresh each other like connected waters, learning in glad company what solitude cannot teach.
Joy is the power at work in your situation — and the oracle takes joy seriously: cultivate it, share it, lead with it, because people will do for gladness what no pressure could extract from them. Join with friends; talk, learn and practise together — this hexagram specifically blesses the study circle, the true conversation, the fellowship of exchange where each replenishes each. One calibration: keep the firm core under the soft surface — joy anchored in principle gladdens and endures, while pleasure without an anchor drains the lake it plays in. Enjoy openly and steadfastly: this is strength wearing its brightest form.
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