I Ching Oracle Lookup - Hexagram 50: The Cauldron

Yin-Yang symbol

Welcome to Hexagram 50, The Cauldron. The table below maps every combination of changing lines to its resulting hexagram — 63 transformations plus the unchanging reading. The notation reads from the bottom line upward: 50.1.5 means Hexagram 50 with lines 1 and 5 changing.

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50
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50.1
14		 ䷱
50.2
56		 ䷱
50.3
64		 ䷱
50.4
18		 ䷱
50.5
44		 ䷱
50.6
32		 ䷱
50.1.2
30
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50.1.3
38		 ䷱
50.1.4
26		 ䷱
50.1.5
1		 ䷱
50.1.6
34		 ䷱
50.2.3
35		 ䷱
50.2.4
52		 ䷱
50.2.5
33		 ䷱
50.2.6
62
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50.3.4
4		 ䷱
50.3.5
6		 ䷱
50.3.6
40		 ䷱
50.4.5
57		 ䷱
50.4.6
46		 ䷱
50.5.6
28		 ䷱
50.1.2.3
21		 ䷱
50.1.2.4
22
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50.1.2.5
13		 ䷱
50.1.2.6
55		 ䷱
50.1.3.4
41		 ䷱
50.1.3.5
10		 ䷱
50.1.3.6
54		 ䷱
50.1.4.5
9		 ䷱
50.1.4.6
11		 ䷱
50.1.5.6
43
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50.2.3.4
23		 ䷱
50.2.3.5
12		 ䷱
50.2.3.6
16		 ䷱
50.2.4.5
53		 ䷱
50.2.4.6
15		 ䷱
50.2.5.6
31		 ䷱
50.3.4.5
59		 ䷱
50.3.4.6
7
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50.3.5.6
47		 ䷱
50.4.5.6
48		 ䷱
50.1.2.3.4
27		 ䷱
50.1.2.3.5
25		 ䷱
50.1.2.3.6
51		 ䷱
50.1.2.4.5
37		 ䷱
50.1.2.4.6
36		 ䷱
50.1.2.5.6
49
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50.1.3.4.5
61		 ䷱
50.1.3.4.6
19		 ䷱
50.1.3.5.6
58		 ䷱
50.1.4.5.6
5		 ䷱
50.2.3.4.5
20		 ䷱
50.2.3.4.6
2		 ䷱
50.2.3.5.6
45		 ䷱
50.2.4.5.6
39
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50.3.4.5.6
29		 ䷱
50.1.2.3.4.5
42		 ䷱
50.1.2.3.4.6
24		 ䷱
50.1.2.3.5.6
17		 ䷱
50.1.2.4.5.6
63		 ䷱
50.1.3.4.5.6
60		 ䷱
50.2.3.4.5.6
8		 ䷱
50.1.2.3.4.5.6
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About the Transformations of Hexagram 50

Hexagram 50, The Cauldron (鼎 Dǐng), places Wind below Fire. Wind supplies gradual penetration in the lower trigram, and Fire provides an articulated upper structure centered on yin. Changes among lines 1–3 modify Wind and the figure's base; changes among lines 4–6 reconstruct Fire. Multi-line movement spanning the midpoint revises how entry and transformation are organized across the full six-line configuration.

The table derives each transformed figure by inverting every line marked as changing and matching the completed pattern to another hexagram. It contains six single-line transformations and fifty-seven multi-line combinations. Alongside them stands the unchanging reading, in which all line values remain fixed, no secondary hexagram appears, and the Judgment of Hexagram 50 alone governs.

When all six lines change, The Cauldron resolves into Hexagram 3, Difficulty at the Beginning, its exact complement. Its received King Wen partner is Hexagram 49, Recasting, generated by inversion rather than complementation. Rotation from top to bottom turns The Cauldron into Recasting. Thus complete polarity change reaches an early figure in the sequence, while vertical inversion links it to the neighboring transformation pair.

For the full Judgment, Image, and line texts, see Hexagram 50: The Cauldron →