[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":547},["ShallowReactive",2],{"yijing-article-en-gu":3,"yijing-articles-list-en":232},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"category":218,"date":219,"description":13,"extension":220,"image":6,"imageAlt":6,"meta":221,"navigation":222,"order":223,"palaces":6,"path":224,"seo":225,"series":6,"sitemap":226,"star":6,"stem":227,"tags":228,"__hash__":231},"content\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fgu.md","I Ching Gu Meaning: Hexagram 18 Explained",null,{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":206},"minimark",[10,14,17,20,25,33,36,39,45,51,55,58,61,64,67,71,74,77,80,83,87,90,97,103,109,115,121,125,128,131,134,137,140,143,162,166,171,174,179,182,187,190,195,198],[11,12,13],"p",{},"Draw Gu 蠱 and students often wrinkle the face. The character looks like insects, poison, something dirty in the house. Some people say straight: bad luck.",[11,15,16],{},"Those two words, bad luck, finish this hexagram and also waste it. Gu is decay, affairs, a stall a predecessor left, a pile no one managed for too long. The judgment still writes great opening, beneficial to cross a great stream. Meaning hard: this stall can be put in order, and after putting it in order you can still cross a river. It is not telling you to burn incense to invite the insects away.",[11,18,19],{},"First get the image right. Gu is Mountain over Wind, Work on the Spoiled. Gen 艮 above, Xun 巽 below. Mountain above, Wind below. Wind under the mountain cannot blow; qi sits; things rot; insects are born. So it is called Gu. It is not Wind over Mountain, Jian (Gradual) 漸. Jian is Xun above, Gen below, wind on the mountain: advancing slowly. Gu is wind under the mountain: accumulated ill, decay, having to put a hand to order. Reverse above and below and you misread “a rotten stall that should be repaired” as “slowly will do.” Slowly, and Gu is deeper.",[21,22,24],"h2",{"id":23},"why-after-following-people-there-are-affairs","Why after following people there are affairs",[11,26,27,28,32],{},"The ",[29,30,31],"em",{},"Xugua"," says: 「以喜隨人者必有事，故受之以蠱。蠱者，事也。」 Those who follow people with joy must have affairs; therefore Gu follows. Gu is affairs. Memorize this sentence. Gu is not putting a curse in some occult sense. It is personnel gone to waste, things rotten, rules decayed, become affairs that must be handled.",[11,34,35],{},"People who draw Gu, common scenes: taking over a family business, an old team, finding the books wrong, finding a habit an elder left already harming people, finding three years of unspoken words piled in a relationship. Not that you are unlucky. The stall has arrived in front of you. There is a son, the deceased father has no blame. Someone comes out to work it, and the predecessor can also get out of the excess. No one works it, and Gu keeps being Gu.",[11,37,38],{},"The judgment: 「蠱，元亨。利涉大川。先甲三日，後甲三日。」 Great opening: putting this matter in order itself can open. Beneficial to cross a great stream: putting in order is not sweeping the floor. It is crossing a great river, having to move out. Three days before jia, three days after jia. Jia is the first of the ten stems, the day of beginning again. Three days before the start, prepare; three days after the start, watch. End, then there is a beginning. What Gu most fears is a burst of blood working one day, then putting it back.",[11,40,27,41,44],{},[29,42,43],{},"Tuan"," says: 「蠱，剛上而柔下，巽而止，蠱。」 The firm above, the yielding below; Xun and stopping: Gu. Stop under the mountain, follow in the wind; follow and stop, and it rots. What then? 「先甲三日，後甲三日，終則有始，天行也。」 Heaven’s motion is ending then beginning. The stall you take over is an end for the predecessor, a beginning for you.",[11,46,27,47,50],{},[29,48,49],{},"Xiang"," says: 「山下有風，蠱。君子以振民育德。」 Wind under the mountain, Gu. The superior person stirs the people and nourishes virtue. Stir is shaking awake; nourish virtue is filling a person’s bottom. Putting in order is not only scolding, only changing people, only putting up new slogans. After stirring, still nourish. Draw Gu and only know how to tear down, not nourish: in a season insects are born again.",[21,52,54],{"id":53},"career-and-wealth-first-clear-the-insects-then-talk-of-a-great-river","Career and wealth: first clear the insects, then talk of a great river",[11,56,57],{},"Ask about career and draw Gu: overall not a lucky hexagram for opening a new game. It is a lucky hexagram for putting an old game in order. Great opening is in working on Gu, not in opening a shop. Good for taking stock, checking books, changing a process, drying a rotten-tailed project, asking for an account of what was not written clearly in a handover. Not good for expanding greatly then, using a new project to cover an old sore.",[11,59,60],{},"For wealth, Gu often first shows leaks: bad debts, guarantees, family siphoning, unwritten company rules, insurance not renewed, a contract expired. Looks like losing money; actually insects being turned up. Turned up, then you can work. Three days before jia is checking; three days after is filling. Check and not fill: watching insects. Fill and not check: covering insects.",[11,62,63],{},"Beneficial to cross a great stream: putting in order can move the large — restructure, move, change the responsible person, cut a product line. Large, because Gu is already large. Not large for stimulation. Nine in the third, work on the father’s Gu, small regret, no great blame. Putting a predecessor’s stall in order, the move a little large, there will be small regret, not a great excess. What you fear is six in the fourth’s making the father’s Gu ample: too lenient, going forward along the old fault, and you will see cause for regret.",[11,65,66],{},"The upper nine, not serving kings and lords, holding the affair high. Put in order to a stage, you can withdraw from the system, do a matter you yourself think high. Draw the upper nine: not necessarily resigning to be a hermit. This time’s working on Gu need not be done to please those above. The affair itself should be higher than a king or lord’s face. Of course, going high before you have finished working: that is fleeing, not the upper nine.",[21,68,70],{"id":69},"love-and-people-gu-in-the-house-is-harder-to-speak-than-insects-outside","Love and people: Gu in the house is harder to speak than insects outside",[11,72,73],{},"Ask about love and draw Gu: there is accumulated ill in the relationship. Not only rotten today. Rotten a while and no one managed. Cold violence piled, money not clear, the boundary with the family of origin rotten, promises expired. Gu at home is often called “personalities do not match.” Those four words, like bad luck, work nothing.",[11,75,76],{},"Work on the father’s Gu, work on the mother’s Gu: not necessarily truly parents. Father images the hard stall: rules, career, face, hard errors. Mother images the yielding stall: mood, habit, entanglement that cannot be spoken. Nine in the second, work on the mother’s Gu, must not stay rigidly correct. Putting a yielding problem in order, you cannot be too hard, cannot dead-hold one word, correct, and push. Draw nine in the second: with an elder, with a partner’s emotional account, put it in order by turning, not by talking principle until they shut the door. Must not stay rigidly correct: not that you may be incorrect. That you cannot be hard-correct.",[11,78,79],{},"If you are single and draw Gu, first see whether you have an old stall: an ex not cut clean, family matters dragging, a corner of your own life already decayed. Take Gu to meet people and a new connection becomes a nest for the next insect. Work first, then go out the door. Sui is going out to meet; Gu is sweeping before you go out.",[11,81,82],{},"Workplace people and Gu: watch whose stall you are taking. There is a son, the deceased father has no blame: you took it, the predecessor’s excess can be finished, and your danger is just starting. Dangerous, luck in the end. The process will be fierce, will offend people, will be told you do not respect tradition. Luck in the end is luck after working, not luck the moment you take over.",[21,84,86],{"id":85},"lines-the-object-of-working-differs-so-the-method-differs","Lines: the object of working differs, so the method differs",[11,88,89],{},"Gu’s luck is almost all written after the word “work.” Do not work, and those lucks are not there.",[11,91,92,96],{},[93,94,95],"strong",{},"Initial six: 幹父之蠱，有子，考無咎，厲終吉."," Work on the father’s ill; there is such a son, the father can have no blame. The process is dangerous; the result lucky. Draw the initial six: you may have just taken over, qualifications still shallow. Shallow can still work. Danger is normal; do not stop because of danger. Someone comes out to do it, and the old generation can come out of the excess.",[11,98,99,102],{},[93,100,101],{},"Nine in the second: 幹母之蠱，不可貞."," Work on the mother’s ill; must not stay rigidly correct. Draw nine in the second: the object leans yielding, feeling, habit. Hard pushing will split Gu; people scatter, insects still there. This line is most used on: a mother, a female manager, a relationship bound by mood. The method must be Xun, entering, not only Gen.",[11,104,105,108],{},[93,106,107],{},"Nine in the third: 幹父之蠱，小有悔，無大咎."," Work on the father’s ill; there will be small regret, no great excess. Nine in the third over-hard, the move easily heavy. Draw this line: changing a system, changing people, saying the words once through: afterward you will regret being too rushing. Let small regret regret. Need not, for perfection, not work. No great blame is the door this hexagram leaves for over-hard people.",[11,110,111,114],{},[93,112,113],{},"Six in the fifth: 幹父之蠱，用譽."," Work on the father’s ill, using reputation, a good method that is seen. Six in the fifth in the honored place, yielding: working beautifully, people submit. Draw six in the fifth: you may already have a place. Working on Gu then relies on example and system, not on anger. Using reputation is letting people be willing to repair with you, not letting people fear your repairing.",[11,116,117,120],{},[93,118,119],{},"Upper nine: 不事王侯，高尚其事."," Not serving kings and lords, holding what you do as high. Draw the upper nine: putting in order can come to a pause, or turn into work not done to please power. Good for closing, withdrawing, doing a clean matter. The premise is those workings below have already been done. High without working, and Gu is still blowing under the mountain.",[21,122,124],{"id":123},"in-class-how-to-put-a-hand-to-it-do-not-only-shout-reform","In class, how to put a hand to it: do not only shout reform",[11,126,127],{},"Draw Gu and I have students split the stall in three piles: the father’s, the mother’s, your own. The father’s is hard rules rotten; the mother’s is soft habits rotten; your own is insects born after you took the stall. Cannot tell them apart, and you will use nine in the third’s hardness on nine in the second’s yielding: the house blows first.",[11,129,130],{},"Then do it by before jia, after jia.",[11,132,133],{},"Three days before jia: check. Books, contracts, the body, unspoken words: list them. Work without checking is blind work.",[11,135,136],{},"Jia day: put a hand to it. Move one that can be moved. Do not open ten fronts at once. Crossing a great stream is direction; crossing a river is still one step into the water.",[11,138,139],{},"Three days after jia: watch. The first three days of a new system most easily slide back. Stir the people and nourish virtue: virtue has to be nourished, not putting up a notice and ending.",[11,141,142],{},"After Gu is Lin 臨. After there are affairs, then it can be great. The stall put in order, then the situation can become large. If you refuse to work on Gu now, the Lin later is empty: opportunity comes carrying insects too.",[11,144,145,146,151,152,156,157,161],{},"Compare: ",[147,148,150],"a",{"href":149},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fsui","I Ching Sui Meaning | Hexagram 17 How to Read: Following, Whom You Tie To",". Follow too gladly, there must be affairs. After Gu, opportunity becomes large: ",[147,153,155],{"href":154},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Flin","I Ching Lin Meaning | Hexagram 19 How to Read: Approach, How to Receive a Rising Tide",". When closed, be thrifty; when decayed, stir. Pi 否 can be compared: ",[147,158,160],{"href":159},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fpi","I Ching Pi Meaning | Hexagram 12 How to Read: Getting Through Standstill",".",[21,163,165],{"id":164},"i-ching-gu-faq","I Ching Gu FAQ",[11,167,168],{},[93,169,170],{},"Does drawing Gu mean someone is harming me, there is something dirty?",[11,172,173],{},"Most of the time it is not a curse. Personnel have gone to waste. First check books, habits, who has long managed nothing. If there truly is harm from outside, you still have to work. You cannot only change a date, change feng shui. What the judgment gives is great opening, putting a hand to it — not scaring yourself.",[11,175,176],{},[93,177,178],{},"Work on the father’s Gu: should I turn against my father?",[11,180,181],{},"What you work on is Gu, not the father as a person. There is a son, the deceased father has no blame: letting the predecessor have no blame, not pressing the predecessor on the ground. The attitude can be dangerous; the goal is luck in the end, repairing the stall. Turning against is easy. Repairing well is hard.",[11,183,184],{},[93,185,186],{},"Nine in the second, must not stay rigidly correct: am I being told not to hold principle?",[11,188,189],{},"You are being told not to use one stick to put a soft problem in order. Principle is still there; the method must enter. With mood, elders, habit, turning is more effective than colliding. Must not stay rigidly correct is not that you may be crooked.",[11,191,192],{},[93,193,194],{},"The company is a mess, I drew Gu. Should I leave?",[11,196,197],{},"You can prepare to go. More often you were called to work this stall. The initial six, nine in the third, six in the fifth are all working, not all fleeing. The upper nine is holding the affair high. Leave without having worked, and Gu will follow you to the next place, because you have not practiced stirring and nourishing.",[11,199,200,201,205],{},"For an online hexagram, try ",[147,202,204],{"href":203},"\u002Fen\u002Flove\u002Fdivination","free love divination"," and match both birthdays with this reading.",{"title":207,"searchDepth":208,"depth":209,"links":210},"",4,3,[211,213,214,215,216,217],{"id":23,"depth":212,"text":24},2,{"id":53,"depth":212,"text":54},{"id":69,"depth":212,"text":70},{"id":85,"depth":212,"text":86},{"id":123,"depth":212,"text":124},{"id":164,"depth":212,"text":165},"I Ching","2026-08-25","md",{},true,18,"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fgu",{"title":5,"description":13},{"loc":224},"en\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fgu",[229,230],"Upper Canon","Xun palace","_ixWPOqeaQtVBXCGMXBaFk9I0Hp9QRoyce3Ok1xbFY8",[233,238,243,248,253,258,263,268,273,278,283,288,293,298,303,308,313,315,320,325,330,335,340,345,350,355,360,365,370,375,380,385,390,395,400,404,409,414,419,424,428,433,438,443,448,453,458,462,467,472,477,482,487,492,497,502,507,512,517,522,527,532,537,542],{"path":234,"title":235,"description":236,"meta":237},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fbi","I Ching Bi Meaning: Hexagram 8 Explained","Draw Bi 比 and students easily brighten: there is a patron, someone covering me, I can lean. 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Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":224,"title":5,"description":13,"meta":314},{},{"path":316,"title":317,"description":318,"meta":319},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fguai","I Ching Guai Meaning: Hexagram 43 Explained","Yi 益 added to a point must break. Breaking is Guai 夬. Students drawing Guai easily hear war: cut that person, tear that matter, lay it out tonight.",{},{"path":321,"title":322,"description":323,"meta":324},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fguan","I Ching Guan Meaning: Hexagram 20 Explained","Draw Guan 觀 and students often say: I will look again. Those three words, look again, are sometimes right, sometimes hiding.",{},{"path":326,"title":327,"description":328,"meta":329},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fguimei","I Ching Gui Mei Meaning: Hexagram 54","Draw Gui Mei 歸妹 and the most dangerous classroom reaction is a smile: Gui Mei, a younger sister is to marry — is that not joy.",{},{"path":331,"title":332,"description":333,"meta":334},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fheng","I Ching Heng Meaning: Hexagram 32 Explained","Draw Heng 恆 and some people exhale: it can last. Some are tense: am I bound dead, cannot change? Apply the lines to love, career, and decisions.",{},{"path":336,"title":337,"description":338,"meta":339},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fhuan","I Ching Huan Meaning: Hexagram 59 Explained","Huan 渙 is most easily heard as one sentence: it is over, we will scatter. Use it to interpret an online hexagram reading.",{},{"path":341,"title":342,"description":343,"meta":344},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fjian","I Ching Jian Meaning: Hexagram 39 Explained","Draw Jian 蹇 and students’ first reaction is often: it is over, I cannot walk. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":346,"title":347,"description":348,"meta":349},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fjian_gradual","I Ching Jian (Gradual) Meaning: Hexagram 53","Draw Jian (Gradual) 漸 and students are sometimes disappointed: neither great fortune nor great misfortune — what am I to do.",{},{"path":351,"title":352,"description":353,"meta":354},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fjiaren","I Ching Jia Ren Meaning: Hexagram 37","Jia Ren 家人, as the name says, asks about the people of the house and the matters of the house. 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Use it to interpret an online hexagram reading.",{},{"path":371,"title":372,"description":373,"meta":374},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fjing","I Ching Jing Meaning: Hexagram 48 Explained","Jing 井 appears, and I first ask students: what do you rely on to feed people, and to feed yourself? Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":376,"title":377,"description":378,"meta":379},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fkan","I Ching Kan Meaning: Hexagram 29 Explained","Draw Kan 坎 and in class someone often says straight: water, danger, bad luck. Then asks whether they can change the day and ask again.",{},{"path":381,"title":382,"description":383,"meta":384},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fkui","I Ching Kui Meaning: Hexagram 38 Explained","Get the hexagram right first. Kui is Fire over Lake, Li above Dui. Fire above, lake below. 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Then they start reading: breakup, resign, things to throw away.",{},{"path":154,"title":401,"description":402,"meta":403},"I Ching Lin Meaning: Hexagram 19 Explained","Draw Lin 臨 and students easily hear: a patron has come, opportunity has come, those above will lift me. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":405,"title":406,"description":407,"meta":408},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Flv","I Ching Lü Meaning: Hexagram 10 Explained","Draw Lü 履 and students often hear two things. One: Lü is shoes, I will go charge. The other: there is a tiger ahead, I will do nothing.",{},{"path":410,"title":411,"description":412,"meta":413},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Flv_wanderer","I Ching Lü (Wanderer) Meaning: Hexagram 56","Lü (Wanderer) 旅 appears, and a person is usually not on their own kang. Use it to interpret an online hexagram reading. Read the lines for the next move.",{},{"path":415,"title":416,"description":417,"meta":418},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fmeng","I Ching Meng Meaning: Hexagram 4 Explained","Draw Meng 蒙 and students love to hear two sentences. One: I am stupid. The other: I am not ready, so I should learn nothing.",{},{"path":420,"title":421,"description":422,"meta":423},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fmingyi","I Ching Ming Yi Meaning: Hexagram 36","Draw Ming Yi 明夷 and the room often goes quiet for half a second. Not to paint darkness. The picture is very straight: light has been buried.",{},{"path":159,"title":425,"description":426,"meta":427},"I Ching Pi Meaning: Hexagram 12 Explained","Draw Pi 否 and class often goes quiet for half a second. Not to paint tragedy. Because this hexagram is straight: not open.",{},{"path":429,"title":430,"description":431,"meta":432},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fqian","I Ching Qian Meaning: Hexagram 1 Explained","Draw Qian 乾 and the first sentence people say is: great luck, go for it. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":434,"title":435,"description":436,"meta":437},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fqian_modesty","I Ching Qian (Modesty) Meaning: Hexagram 15","Among the sixty-four hexagrams, the one that truly deserves “every line still gets through” is Qian (Modesty) 謙, the most famous.",{},{"path":439,"title":440,"description":441,"meta":442},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fsheng","I Ching Sheng Meaning: Hexagram 46 Explained","Cui 萃 is gathering. Gathered, things go up. Going up is Sheng 升. Students drawing Sheng easily hear promotion, a flying dragon. Too early.",{},{"path":444,"title":445,"description":446,"meta":447},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fshi","I Ching Shi Meaning: Hexagram 7 Explained","Draw Shi 師 and students often hear it as war, as unlucky, as “who do I have to fight.” Shi does have the image of troops.",{},{"path":449,"title":450,"description":451,"meta":452},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fshihe","I Ching Shi He Meaning: Hexagram 21","Draw Shi He 噬嗑 and some think it is a hexagram of eating, some a hexagram of quarreling. Both touch it; both are not accurate.",{},{"path":454,"title":455,"description":456,"meta":457},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fsong","I Ching Song Meaning: Hexagram 6 Explained","Draw Song 訟 and some people are excited: at last I can get justice. Some are afraid: am I going to court. Both feelings are too full.",{},{"path":149,"title":459,"description":460,"meta":461},"I Ching Sui Meaning: Hexagram 17 Explained","Draw Sui 隨 and students often take it as: following along is right, go with the flow, go with fate. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":463,"title":464,"description":465,"meta":466},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fsun","I Ching Sun Meaning: Hexagram 41 Explained","Hear Sun 損 and students wrinkle the face. The character looks like taking a loss, broken wealth, being shaved. Apply the lines to love, career, and decisions.",{},{"path":468,"title":469,"description":470,"meta":471},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Ftai","I Ching Tai Meaning: Hexagram 11 Explained","Tai 泰 is the hexagram in a reading that lets people exhale. Not because it is mysterious. Because the picture is clear: Earth above, Heaven below — Peace.",{},{"path":473,"title":474,"description":475,"meta":476},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Ftongren","I Ching Tong Ren Meaning: Hexagram 13","Draw Tong Ren 同人 and students often automatically translate: there is a patron, there are partners, this time we can do it together.",{},{"path":478,"title":479,"description":480,"meta":481},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fweiji","I Ching Wei Ji Meaning: Hexagram 64","Wei Ji 未濟 is the last of the sixty-four hexagrams. Fire above, water below: Fire over Water, Wei Ji. Apply the lines to love, career, and decisions.",{},{"path":483,"title":484,"description":485,"meta":486},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fwuwang","I Ching Wu Wang Meaning: Hexagram 25","Draw Wu Wang 無妄 and students often split in two camps. Use it to interpret an online hexagram reading. Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":488,"title":489,"description":490,"meta":491},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxian","I Ching Xian Meaning: Hexagram 31 Explained","Draw Xian 咸 and in class someone’s eyes often light: love is coming. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines. Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":493,"title":494,"description":495,"meta":496},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxiaoguo","I Ching Xiao Guo Meaning: Hexagram 62","Xiao Guo 小過 is not as simple as a small fault, and still less “the sin is small, it does not matter.” Guo 過 is going beyond, slightly past the usual line.",{},{"path":498,"title":499,"description":500,"meta":501},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxiaoxu","I Ching Xiao Xu Meaning: Hexagram 9","Draw Xiao Xu 小畜 and students often have two kinds of haste. One: store means save, I will save hugely and do something huge.",{},{"path":503,"title":504,"description":505,"meta":506},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxie","I Ching Xie Meaning: Hexagram 40 Explained","Jian 蹇 is difficulty. Xie 解 is difficulty beginning to loosen. Students drawing Xie easily breathe out, as if they can celebrate. Too early.",{},{"path":508,"title":509,"description":510,"meta":511},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxu","I Ching Xu Meaning: Hexagram 5 Explained","Draw Xu 需 and students most often hear “wait” as two extremes. One: then I lie down and wait for luck. Apply the lines to love, career, and decisions.",{},{"path":513,"title":514,"description":515,"meta":516},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxun","I Ching Xun Meaning: Hexagram 57 Explained","Xun 巽 does not sound like Qian 乾, with force at the first hearing. It is wind, entering, going in through a crack. Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":518,"title":519,"description":520,"meta":521},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fyi","I Ching Yi (Nourishment) Meaning: Hexagram 27","Draw Yi (Nourishment) 頤 and students often first think of the mouth. What to eat, can I lose weight, does this job feed me. The mouth is not wrong.",{},{"path":523,"title":524,"description":525,"meta":526},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fyi_increase","I Ching Yi (Increase) Meaning: Hexagram 42","After Sun 損 comes Yi 益. Students drawing Yi light up: finally it is my turn to receive. This hexagram does have receiving.",{},{"path":528,"title":529,"description":530,"meta":531},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fyu","I Ching Yu Meaning: Hexagram 16 Explained","Draw Yu 豫 and a student’s face lights. Yu is joy, smoothness, the matter finally going smoothly, a chance to breathe. Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":533,"title":534,"description":535,"meta":536},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fzhen","I Ching Zhen Meaning: Hexagram 51 Explained","Zhen 震 appears, and the matter is rarely still. It is thunder, movement, that sudden strike. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":538,"title":539,"description":540,"meta":541},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fzhongfu","I Ching Zhong Fu Meaning: Hexagram 61","Zhong Fu 中孚, split, is easy: in the middle there is fu 孚. Fu is trust, something like an egg, inside and outside one, that can hatch.",{},{"path":543,"title":544,"description":545,"meta":546},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fzhun","I Ching Zhun Meaning: Hexagram 3 Explained","Students who draw Zhun 屯 often react in one of two ways: it is over, I cannot start — or beginnings are hard, so I will do it another day.",{},1787715768897]