I Ching hexagram 53

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I Ching hexagram 53, depicted ::|:|| is named 漸 (jian4), Infiltrating. Other translations: R. Wilhelm/C. Baynes, Development (Gradual Progress); E. Shaughnessy (Mawangdui), Advancing.

• Inner (lower) trigram is ☶ (::| 艮 gen4) Bound = (山) mountain
• Outer (upper) trigram is ☴ (:|| 巽 xun4) Ground = (風) wind
• The trigrams can be read bottom to top as "With self-restraint (mountain in lower) comes becoming influential (wind in upper)"

I Ching hexagrams
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64

[edit] The Self-Referencing I Ching : using the I Ching to describe itself

The following material is drawn from analysis of the binary sequence of the hexagrams where the hexagrams are derived from recursion of yin/yang and so showing a property of the method - the hexagrams are all linked together and contribute to the expression of, the description of, each hexagram.

• The skeletal form of hexagram 53 is described by analogy to the under-exaggerated properties of hexagram 63 where we have a generic focus on completion, getting a sequence 'correct'. As such, 53 reflects a focus on maturing (as its opposite, 54, covers the immature).