Hexagram 22 of 64

    ䷕

    Grace and Beauty

    Form that serves substance.

    Adornment, beauty, elegance, cultivation, refinement, embellishment, form

    ☶Mountain Above
    ☲Fire Below

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    Fire at the foot of the mountain — the peak illuminated from below. Beauty that reveals, rather than decorates.

    Something in your situation needs its form refined — the way you present it, the way you hold it, the aesthetic of it. But the hexagram is strict: form has to serve substance. Beautify nothing that isn't already true.

    Fire on the hillside

    the mountain's shape in the light

    becomes what it is.