[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":523},["ShallowReactive",2],{"yijing-article-en-jiaren":3,"yijing-articles-list-en":209},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"category":194,"date":195,"description":196,"extension":197,"image":6,"imageAlt":6,"meta":198,"navigation":199,"order":200,"palaces":6,"path":201,"seo":202,"series":6,"sitemap":203,"star":6,"stem":204,"tags":205,"__hash__":208},"content\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fjiaren.md","I Ching Jia Ren Meaning: Hexagram 37",null,{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":179},"minimark",[10,14,17,20,25,33,36,42,46,49,54,57,60,64,67,70,74,77,81,87,90,93,97,100,103,106,134,138,144,147,152,155,160,163,168,171],[11,12,13],"p",{},"Jia Ren 家人, as the name says, asks about the people of the house and the matters of the house. Order the family, then govern the state, then bring peace to the world: the sequence cannot be reversed. If the house is not in order, a handsome career outside is a building without a beam.",[11,15,16],{},"Correct a place often written wrong: Jia Ren is not Huo Feng Ding 火風鼎. Ding is Fire over Wind, Li above Xun. Jia Ren is Wind over Fire, Xun above Li. Wind above, fire below. Wind fans the fire; the house has warmth, and it has rules. Get the picture wrong and the whole explanation that follows goes wrong with it.",[11,18,19],{},"Wind is the eldest daughter; fire is the middle daughter. Two feminine trigrams stacked is not “only women in the house.” It is that the inner atmosphere, the teaching by words, the daily order, matter extremely for the whole hexagram. The reverse is Kui 睽: two women living together, hearts not going one way. Jia Ren is harmony; Kui is division. Ask about family, and these two hexagrams often arrive as a pair.",[21,22,24],"h2",{"id":23},"why-ming-yi-is-followed-by-jia-ren","Why Ming Yi is followed by Jia Ren",[11,26,27,28,32],{},"The ",[29,30,31],"em",{},"Xu Gua"," says: 「傷於外者必反於家，故受之以家人。」 What is wounded outside must return home, so Jia Ren follows. Ming Yi 明夷 is dark outside, injury outside. After injury there must be a place that receives the person. That place is the house.",[11,34,35],{},"So drawing Jia Ren is not necessarily as sweet as “the family has been complete lately.” It may also be: you are not smooth outside, and the hexagram pulls your attention home. Light the lamp in the house first, then talk about the battlefield outside.",[11,37,27,38,41],{},[29,39,40],{},"Tuan"," says: 「家人，女正位乎內，男正位乎外，男女正，天地之大義也。」 The woman correct in position inside, the man correct in position outside; man and woman correct: the great righteousness of Heaven and Earth. Later ages made this rigid. The original sense is a clear division of labor. Someone inside holds the life up; someone outside gets the work done; both sides correct, and the house can stand. Today you need not lock “women only inside, men only outside.” What you ask is: in this house, is anyone actually in charge of both ends? Neither end managed, or one end crushing the other, is not correct position.",[21,43,45],{"id":44},"drawing-jia-ren-is-not-great-fortune-in-all-things-first-treat-the-house-as-a-matter","Drawing Jia Ren is not great fortune in all things — first treat the house as a matter",[11,47,48],{},"Old notes often write: a woman drawing Jia Ren is greatly fortunate. As encouragement, that can stand. As a verdict, it is too full. Jia Ren’s fortune sits on “the order of the house is still there.” If the house is already shouting, already living apart, already in court over money, drawing Jia Ren is more like a reminder to return to the proper work: do what is in your part, and say the rules that should be said.",[50,51,53],"h3",{"id":52},"marriage-and-feeling","Marriage and feeling",[11,55,56],{},"Jia Ren is a hexagram of making a home. Ask about marrying, moving in together, whether to meet the parents: the direction is affirmative. What it values is not romance. It is whether you can live a life. Dates can be very sweet. Jia Ren asks: who cooks, who stays up to care, who keeps the books, who appears when the child is ill.",[11,58,59],{},"A man drawing Jia Ren: a hard problem outside often has to find its answer at home. Wife, mother, sister, girlfriend may be this time’s helper. Not an order to dump the duty on her. An order not to look for methods only at the office. A woman drawing Jia Ren: her judgment and steering in the house will directly brighten the work outside. That is the practical layer under the old phrase “a capable wife prospers the husband”: once the house is steady, the outside can concentrate.",[50,61,63],{"id":62},"career-and-wealth","Career and wealth",[11,65,66],{},"Jia Ren is not a typical hexagram of opening a shop and exploding into profit. It looks more like a family business, a couple’s shop, work that can also run at home — or you must settle the house first, or the work will not move. The house is leaking and you go to talk a large project: the hexagram thinks you have the sequence wrong.",[11,68,69],{},"In wealth, Jia Ren leans toward “the house’s wealth”: a joint account, a home, family support, an opportunity that comes because of the family. Spending wildly in private, keeping an unclear relationship outside: both walk against this hexagram’s qi.",[50,71,73],{"id":72},"moving-buying-a-home-returning-to-the-hometown","Moving, buying a home, returning to the hometown",[11,75,76],{},"These questions sit very well on Jia Ren. Wind and fire are warmth and circulation. What a house wants is that you can live in it and live through it. Draw Jia Ren, and moving, reunion, bringing parents over, settling the household registration: all are inside the topic.",[21,78,80],{"id":79},"what-jia-ren-fears-most-fake-division-of-labor-real-hands-off","What Jia Ren fears most: fake division of labor, real hands-off",[11,82,83,84,86],{},"Fake division of labor is saying who manages inside and who manages outside, while in fact no one manages, and when something happens you blame each other. Real hands-off is one side reading “correct position” as “I decide,” and the other not even having room to ask a question. The ",[29,85,40],{}," speaks of man and woman being correct: what is correct is the seat, not domination.",[11,88,89],{},"The first line: 「閑有家」— from the start the house has a fence, a rule. Wait until the children are grown and the debts are owed, then set rules, and the cost is much higher. This line is especially useful for the newly married, for people newly moved in together: how money is used, how chores are split, where the boundary with the family of origin sits. Saying it early is cheaper than shouting it late.",[11,91,92],{},"The middle lines speak of severity and leniency, words and deeds. Only severity, no leniency, and the house goes toward Kui. Only leniency, no severity, and it scatters. The upper line: 「有孚威如」— there is sincerity, and something like dignity. Dignity is not shouting. It is doing it yourself first, so the family can trust. Draw Jia Ren while the house is shouting, and I often advise not “you yield to him,” but “finish your own item first.” Once what is in your part stands, the qi is more correct.",[21,94,96],{"id":95},"using-jia-ren-today-without-turning-it-into-an-old-moral-slogan","Using Jia Ren today, without turning it into an old moral slogan",[11,98,99],{},"In a modern family both people often work. Jia Ren is not outdated. It only asks the question more precisely: does this house still have an inner order both of you recognize?",[11,101,102],{},"You can have no one home full-time. You cannot have no one keeping the books, the children’s schedule, the elders’ appointments. You need not use the old male-female split. You cannot have no split. Draw Jia Ren, write down the matters in the house that are drifting, and claim them item by item. That is much more useful than discussing “what a traditional woman should be.”",[11,104,105],{},"If you ask about a broader virtue of carrying, read Kun 坤. If you ask about dropping the posture so the house can live, read Qian (Modesty) 謙. Jia Ren is the hexagram that pulls the range back under this eaves.",[11,107,108,109,114,115,114,119,123,124,128,129,133],{},"Compare: ",[110,111,113],"a",{"href":112},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fmingyi","I Ching Ming Yi Meaning | Hexagram 36 How to Read: Darkening of the Light, How to Hide Brightness",", ",[110,116,118],{"href":117},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fkui","I Ching Kui Meaning | Hexagram 38 How to Read: Opposition, How to Live with Division",[110,120,122],{"href":121},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fkun","I Ching Kun Meaning | Hexagram 2 How to Read: Receptive Earth, Lost First Then Gained",". Ding and Jia Ren reverse above and below: ",[110,125,127],{"href":126},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fding","I Ching Ding Meaning | Hexagram 50 How to Read: The Cauldron, How to Found Anew and Nourish Worth",". If Hurting Officer seeing Officer also appears in the BaZi of the relationship: ",[110,130,132],{"href":131},"\u002Fen\u002Fbazi\u002Farticles\u002Fbazi_shang_guan_jian_guan","Hurting Officer Seeing Officer and Marriage",".",[21,135,137],{"id":136},"i-ching-jia-ren-faq","I Ching Jia Ren FAQ",[11,139,140],{},[141,142,143],"strong",{},"Is Jia Ren only for women?",[11,145,146],{},"No. A man asking about the house, a wife, whether to return to the family, draws this hexagram just as often. Old notes do emphasize a woman’s relation to “the inner.” Divination follows the question. It does not cut by gender with one knife.",[11,148,149],{},[141,150,151],{},"If I draw Jia Ren, should I resign and go home?",[11,153,154],{},"Unless that is the question, do not jump automatically to resigning. Jia Ren often only says: first patch the home end. The method of patching can be going home, or renegotiating hours, boundaries, and chores. Resigning is the largest cut. The hexagram does not tell you to swing it on the first move.",[11,156,157],{},[141,158,159],{},"Jia Ren and Kui appearing together: how do I read it?",[11,161,162],{},"Original Jia Ren, resulting Kui: the house’s harmony is walking toward division. Check which item of labor, or which sentence, split the heart. Original Kui, resulting Jia Ren: from not matching toward gathering in. Worth talking. Worth giving a common aim.",[11,164,165],{},[141,166,167],{},"Why is the picture so easily mixed with Ding?",[11,169,170],{},"Because both are Xun and Li, only reversed above and below. Ding is cooking with fire, founding anew with a vessel. Jia Ren is wind coming out of fire, teaching by words from inside outward. One leans toward career and founding. One leans toward the house and order. 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Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":290,"title":291,"description":292,"meta":293},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fgu","I Ching Gu Meaning: Hexagram 18 Explained","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.",{},{"path":295,"title":296,"description":297,"meta":298},"\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":300,"title":301,"description":302,"meta":303},"\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":305,"title":306,"description":307,"meta":308},"\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":310,"title":311,"description":312,"meta":313},"\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":315,"title":316,"description":317,"meta":318},"\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":320,"title":321,"description":322,"meta":323},"\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":325,"title":326,"description":327,"meta":328},"\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":201,"title":5,"description":196,"meta":330},{},{"path":332,"title":333,"description":334,"meta":335},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fjie","I Ching Jie Meaning: Hexagram 60 Explained","Jie 節 is popular with modern people. Hear limitation, a system, measure, and it seems at last a hexagram helping you manage self-discipline.",{},{"path":337,"title":338,"description":339,"meta":340},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fjiji","I Ching Ji Ji Meaning: Hexagram 63 Explained","Ji Ji 既濟 is the hexagram among the sixty-four that looks most orderly. Apply the lines to love, career, and decisions. Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":342,"title":343,"description":344,"meta":345},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fjin","I Ching Jin Meaning: Hexagram 35 Explained","Draw Jin 晉 and the room brightens a little. It is a hexagram of going up. Bright is not the same as grabbing. Use it to interpret an online hexagram reading.",{},{"path":347,"title":348,"description":349,"meta":350},"\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":352,"title":353,"description":354,"meta":355},"\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":117,"title":357,"description":358,"meta":359},"I Ching Kui Meaning: Hexagram 38 Explained","Get the hexagram right first. Kui is Fire over Lake, Li above Dui. Fire above, lake below. Fire burns upward; water seeps down: the two run opposite ways.",{},{"path":121,"title":361,"description":362,"meta":363},"I Ching Kun Meaning: Hexagram 2 Explained","Draw Kun 坤 and some people are disappointed: it is not Qian 乾, so I cannot charge. 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Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":380,"title":381,"description":382,"meta":383},"\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":385,"title":386,"description":387,"meta":388},"\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":390,"title":391,"description":392,"meta":393},"\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. 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Too early.",{},{"path":419,"title":420,"description":421,"meta":422},"\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":424,"title":425,"description":426,"meta":427},"\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":429,"title":430,"description":431,"meta":432},"\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":434,"title":435,"description":436,"meta":437},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fsui","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":439,"title":440,"description":441,"meta":442},"\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":444,"title":445,"description":446,"meta":447},"\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":449,"title":450,"description":451,"meta":452},"\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":454,"title":455,"description":456,"meta":457},"\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":459,"title":460,"description":461,"meta":462},"\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":464,"title":465,"description":466,"meta":467},"\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":469,"title":470,"description":471,"meta":472},"\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":474,"title":475,"description":476,"meta":477},"\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":479,"title":480,"description":481,"meta":482},"\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":484,"title":485,"description":486,"meta":487},"\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":489,"title":490,"description":491,"meta":492},"\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":494,"title":495,"description":496,"meta":497},"\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":499,"title":500,"description":501,"meta":502},"\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":504,"title":505,"description":506,"meta":507},"\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":509,"title":510,"description":511,"meta":512},"\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":514,"title":515,"description":516,"meta":517},"\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":519,"title":520,"description":521,"meta":522},"\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.",{},1787715769459]