Trigram ☱

兑 Duì

Lake and mist · Joyous openness

One yin line above two yang lines: a lake, calm on the surface and deep below. Its quality is joy (说), the open ease of shared talk, and its organ is the mouth. The Image of hexagram 58 turns it into practice: friends studying and practising together.

Image
泽Lake and mist
Quality
说Joyous openness
Family
Youngest daughter
Five Phase
金Metal
Body
口the mouth
Animal
羊the sheep
Early Heaven
southeast
Later Heaven
west · autumn, at the equinox

Body, animal and quality: the Shuo Gua (说卦传), the Ten Wings commentary on the trigrams.

Its solar term

In the Later Heaven circle the eight trigrams mark the eight turning points of the year. 兑 ☱ opens Autumn Equinox.

秋分Qiūfēn · Autumn Equinox

The 15 hexagrams that contain it

兑 above (outer)

兑 below (inner)