[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":549},["ShallowReactive",2],{"yijing-article-en-sheng":3,"yijing-articles-list-en":235},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"category":220,"date":221,"description":222,"extension":223,"image":6,"imageAlt":6,"meta":224,"navigation":225,"order":226,"palaces":6,"path":227,"seo":228,"series":6,"sitemap":229,"star":6,"stem":230,"tags":231,"__hash__":234},"content\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fsheng.md","I Ching Sheng Meaning: Hexagram 46 Explained",null,{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":208},"minimark",[10,14,17,20,25,33,39,42,48,52,55,58,61,64,67,71,74,77,80,83,87,94,100,106,112,118,121,125,128,131,134,137,140,164,168,173,176,181,184,189,192,197,200],[11,12,13],"p",{},"Cui 萃 is gathering. Gathered, things go up. Going up is Sheng 升. Students drawing Sheng easily hear promotion, a flying dragon. Too early. Sheng is not suddenly being lit. It is a tree in the earth, growing up with the time. Slow, and it must be correct.",[11,15,16],{},"The picture is Earth over Wind, Kun above Xun. Earth above; wind below — wood, entering. Wind in the earth, wood drilling out of the soil: wood born in the earth. Many people write it as Guan 觀, Wind over Earth. Guan is Xun above Kun: wind over the earth, contemplating, being seen. Reverse above and below and when you should accumulate you go to talk exposure: the root is not deep, and you first ask people to look.",[11,18,19],{},"Jin 晉 is light coming out over the earth, the sun rising to ground level, more public. Sheng is the yielding rising with the time, more accumulation. Both go up; the temper differs. If the question is being seen, being cited, Jin is nearer. If the question is growing step by step, being permitted to rise, Sheng is nearer. This article only finishes Sheng.",[21,22,24],"h2",{"id":23},"sheng-what-gathers-and-goes-up-is-called-sheng","Sheng: what gathers and goes up is called Sheng",[11,26,27,28,32],{},"The ",[29,30,31],"em",{},"Xu Gua"," says: 「聚而上者謂之升，故受之以升。」 What gathers and goes up is called Sheng, so Sheng follows. People gathered, resources gathered: the next stretch is walking up. Sheng without Cui is sometimes empty rising: no crowd below, and you are still climbing. Draw Sheng and first ask: has the layer under you gathered? If not, go back and gather. If it has, then rise.",[11,34,27,35,38],{},[29,36,37],{},"Tuan"," says: 「柔以時升。巽而順，剛中而應，是以大亨。」 The yielding rises with the time. Xun and yielding; the firm in the center and answering: therefore great opening. The yielding rising with the time: four characters are the hexagram’s key. Yielding is not soft to the point of no bone. It is not forcing through. With the time: not rising whenever you feel like it. Rising is truly going up, not turning in place.",[11,40,41],{},"The judgment: 「元亨。用見大人，勿恤。南征吉。」 Great opening. Use seeing a great person; do not worry. A southern campaign is fortunate. South in the later heaven is brightness, the side that opens forward. Sheng’s southwest and northeast are not as dangerous as Jian 蹇. It gives you a positive: go see the person who can promote and recognize you, walk toward the light, need not fear that you are still small.",[11,43,27,44,47],{},[29,45,46],{},"Xiang"," says: 「地中生木，升。君子以順德，積小以高大。」 Wood born in the earth, Sheng. The superior person follows virtue, accumulating the small into the high and great. I copy this almost every time. What Sheng hates most is looking down on the small. Look down on the small, and there is no high and great to reach.",[21,49,51],{"id":50},"career-and-wealth-rising-because-you-are-permitted-not-because-you-crown-yourself","Career and wealth: rising because you are permitted, not because you crown yourself",[11,53,54],{},"Ask about career and draw Sheng: as a whole you can go up. Promotion, upgrade, bringing a product from underground to the surface, opening a base outward: all on topic. The initial six: 「允升，大吉。」 Allowed to rise; great fortune. Yun 允 is being recognized, permitted. Not announcing I have risen. A lower place can be greatly fortunate because someone allows. Draw the initial six: go find the great person who can allow you. More useful than writing a manifesto at home.",[11,56,57],{},"Six in the fifth: 「貞吉，升階。」 Persistence fortunate; rising by steps. The step is a stair. Ask “can I jump three grades at once”: six in the fifth says rising by steps. You can go up, and you must step. Stepped solid, then persistence is fortunate. Jumping grades looks more like Jin’s hurry, or Qian’s arrogance — not this hexagram’s gait.",[11,59,60],{},"Nine in the third: 「升虛邑。」 Rising into an empty town. You can enter; inside it is empty. Common in career: the seat is given, people are not there, resources are not there, the name is there and the substance is not. Draw nine in the third: you can go up, and once up you must fill the town yourself. Do not think entering an empty town is success. An empty town is not a trap you cannot enter. It reminds you: the town is empty. Do not celebrate too early.",[11,62,63],{},"In wealth, Sheng looks like a tree growing: receipts add layer by layer, not a night of windfall. Accumulate the small into the high and great: it suits deposits, thickening small clients, using time to exchange for scale. A southern campaign is fortunate: you can develop outward, and it is still a campaign, not a gamble. Use seeing a great person, do not worry: patrons, a bank, someone who can stamp — go see them now, need not fear you are not yet qualified. Fear, and you cannot rise.",[11,65,66],{},"Six in the fourth: 「王用亨于岐山，吉，無咎。」 The king offers at Mount Qi; fortunate, no blame. Rising near the ruler, near brightness: use ritual, public reverence, to make this rise sit real. In career: having risen, give thanks, announce at the temple, finish the title. Do not privately feel you ought to hold it. Mount Qi is where the Zhou people began: a founding flavor, and still a sacrifice, not a shout.",[21,68,70],{"id":69},"sheng-in-love-the-relationship-can-go-up-still-one-step-at-a-time","Sheng in love: the relationship can go up, still one step at a time",[11,72,73],{},"Ask about love and draw Sheng: the relationship has qi of walking up. It suits meeting parents, raising ambiguity into certainty, moving two lives toward a common height. Not a lightning marriage. The yielding rises with the time: if the time has not arrived, forcing a rise is pulling a sapling taller.",[11,75,76],{},"If you are single and draw Sheng, often your state in this stretch is growing: work, name, stability. People will come close because of it. Allowed to rise: the other person or the elders allow you in the door. You feel good enough, the other has not yet allowed: that is still your Sheng, not this relationship’s Sheng. Go see a great person, do not worry: meeting the parents, Sheng does not oppose. It even encourages.",[11,78,79],{},"If you are already together, rising by steps is making the relationship real one step at a time: from hidden to visible, from visible to the house, from the house to lasting. Each step is small; stacked, they are high. Six in the second: 「孚乃利用禴，無咎。」 Sincerity, then a thin sacrifice is useful; no blame. In love you need not use a large scene to prove you have risen. Sincerity arrived, a home meal is enough.",[11,81,82],{},"Upper six: 「冥升，利于不息之貞。」 Dark rising; beneficial to unceasing persistence. Still rising in the dark. Beneficial, on the condition of unceasing correctness. Ming 冥 is dark, hard to see. The person has already risen high, the outside cannot quite see, and the self is still climbing. Persist in what is correct: accumulating virtue. Do not persist in what is correct: blindness. Dark rising in love: still wanting higher, more bound, more making the other person into your achievement. Unceasing persistence: the point is persistence, not unceasing taking.",[21,84,86],{"id":85},"the-lines-of-sheng-fortune-in-being-allowed-in-steps-danger-in-empty-in-dark","The lines of Sheng: fortune in being allowed, in steps; danger in empty, in dark",[11,88,89,93],{},[90,91,92],"strong",{},"Initial six: 允升，大吉."," Rising because allowed. Go seek permission, go see a great person. Crowning yourself is not yun.",[11,95,96,99],{},[90,97,98],{},"Nine in the second: 孚乃利用禴，無咎."," Sincerity larger than the scene. Mid-Sheng, thin and true is safer than a fake great ritual.",[11,101,102,105],{},[90,103,104],{},"Nine in the third: 升虛邑."," You can go up; inside is empty. Treat empty as real, and you will fall later. Treat empty as a work list, and you can do.",[11,107,108,111],{},[90,109,110],{},"Six in the fourth: 王用亨于岐山."," Having risen, use ritual to make it sit. Public reverence beats private pride.",[11,113,114,117],{},[90,115,116],{},"Six in the fifth: 貞吉，升階."," One step at a time. Ask about jumping grades, overnight fame: six in the fifth will not cheer you on. It helps people who can walk it through.",[11,119,120],{},"The upper six as above. Dark rising, still rising in the dark: persist. Draw the upper six: check whether you cannot see you are already high enough, still using Sheng’s method on a place that should already be kept. Unceasing is virtue unceasing, not desire unceasing.",[21,122,124],{"id":123},"in-class-i-most-guard-two-kinds-of-fast-in-sheng","In class I most guard two kinds of fast in Sheng",[11,126,127],{},"One is the fast of seeking to be seen. The picture has not yet grown out of the ground, and you already seek Guan, exposure, Jin’s light over the earth. The root shakes in wind; the earth has not held it.",[11,129,130],{},"One is dark fast. Already above, still adding in the dark, calling it drive. The upper six allows rising, on the condition of persistence. Unceasing that is not correct is climbing blind.",[11,132,133],{},"The yielding rises with the time. I have students look at a calendar, not at ambition. What small things can be accumulated this month? Who is the great person? What is the next step? If they can say it, Sheng is great opening. If they cannot, only “I want to go up”: that is a toe, not wood.",[11,135,136],{},"Accumulate the small into the high and great: small is not pitiful. A daily report, a monthly close, one client, one small thing that was allowed: all are growth rings. When the rings cannot be seen, the wood is actually growing. People hurry, seek Guan, seek brightness, and make Sheng into Jin. Jin has Jin’s use: light over the earth. If this time is Sheng, first finish what is in the soil.",[11,138,139],{},"In divination Sheng often appears when asking: promotion, advancing in study, taking a shop from an alley to the street, taking a skill from raw to ripe. Great opening: the large direction opens. Do not worry: when you go see a great person, do not scare yourself back first. A southern campaign is fortunate: walk toward the side that can open, can be bright. Ask about an exam and draw Sheng: more like accumulating until allowed, not a sudden lighting. That kind of brightness is nearer Jin.",[11,141,142,143,148,149,153,154,158,159,163],{},"Gathering is the previous hexagram. No crowd, no temple, and Sheng rises as a lone tree. Read together: ",[144,145,147],"a",{"href":146},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fcui","I Ching Cui Meaning | Hexagram 45 How to Read: Gathering Together, How Crowds Hold",". Jin is light over the earth, more public; Sheng is the yielding rising with the time, more accumulation. Both go up, different tempers: ",[144,150,152],{"href":151},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fjin","I Ching Jin Meaning | Hexagram 35 How to Read: Progress, How to Advance and Be Received",". Yielding, following, carrying: Kun is useful: ",[144,155,157],{"href":156},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fkun","I Ching Kun Meaning | Hexagram 2 How to Read: Receptive Earth, Lost First Then Gained",". 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When the question is career strategy, south is toward the light, the side that can open — not that everyone must buy a house in the south. Align the question first, then the compass.",[11,185,186],{},[90,187,188],{},"Is dark rising a bad line?",[11,190,191],{},"Not necessarily bad. What it fears is not persisting correctly. Working in the dark, accumulating in the dark: allowed. Inflating in the dark, taking in the dark: not beneficial. Beneficial to unceasing persistence: five characters must be read together. Do not read only Sheng.",[11,193,194],{},[90,195,196],{},"Sheng, Qian, Jin: how do I choose which to use?",[11,198,199],{},"Qian is yourself firm, yourself flying. Jin is light over the earth, being seen. Sheng is the yielding with the time, accumulating the small into the high. Draw Sheng and use Qian’s fighting, and you drive a tree as if it were a dragon. Draw Sheng and only seek Jin’s brightness, and you will light the root to death. 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Some people say straight: bad luck.",{},{"path":321,"title":322,"description":323,"meta":324},"\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":326,"title":327,"description":328,"meta":329},"\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":331,"title":332,"description":333,"meta":334},"\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":336,"title":337,"description":338,"meta":339},"\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":341,"title":342,"description":343,"meta":344},"\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. 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Use it to interpret an online hexagram reading.",{},{"path":375,"title":376,"description":377,"meta":378},"\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":380,"title":381,"description":382,"meta":383},"\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":385,"title":386,"description":387,"meta":388},"\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. Fire burns upward; water seeps down: the two run opposite ways.",{},{"path":156,"title":390,"description":391,"meta":392},"I Ching Kun Meaning: Hexagram 2 Explained","Draw Kun 坤 and some people are disappointed: it is not Qian 乾, so I cannot charge. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":394,"title":395,"description":396,"meta":397},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fkun_oppression","I Ching Kun (Oppression) Meaning: Hexagram 47","Draw Kun (Oppression) 困 and the first sentence I hear in class is: it is over — how long must I be unlucky. Apply the lines to love, career, and decisions.",{},{"path":399,"title":400,"description":401,"meta":402},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fli","I Ching Li Meaning: Hexagram 30 Explained","Draw Li 離 and students often first misread the character. Li, leave. Then they start reading: breakup, resign, things to throw away.",{},{"path":404,"title":405,"description":406,"meta":407},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Flin","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":409,"title":410,"description":411,"meta":412},"\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":414,"title":415,"description":416,"meta":417},"\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":419,"title":420,"description":421,"meta":422},"\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":424,"title":425,"description":426,"meta":427},"\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":429,"title":430,"description":431,"meta":432},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fpi","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":434,"title":435,"description":436,"meta":437},"\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":161,"title":439,"description":440,"meta":441},"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":227,"title":5,"description":222,"meta":443},{},{"path":445,"title":446,"description":447,"meta":448},"\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":450,"title":451,"description":452,"meta":453},"\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":455,"title":456,"description":457,"meta":458},"\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":460,"title":461,"description":462,"meta":463},"\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":465,"title":466,"description":467,"meta":468},"\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":470,"title":471,"description":472,"meta":473},"\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":475,"title":476,"description":477,"meta":478},"\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":480,"title":481,"description":482,"meta":483},"\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":485,"title":486,"description":487,"meta":488},"\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":490,"title":491,"description":492,"meta":493},"\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":495,"title":496,"description":497,"meta":498},"\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":500,"title":501,"description":502,"meta":503},"\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":505,"title":506,"description":507,"meta":508},"\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":510,"title":511,"description":512,"meta":513},"\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":515,"title":516,"description":517,"meta":518},"\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":520,"title":521,"description":522,"meta":523},"\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":525,"title":526,"description":527,"meta":528},"\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":530,"title":531,"description":532,"meta":533},"\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":535,"title":536,"description":537,"meta":538},"\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":540,"title":541,"description":542,"meta":543},"\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":545,"title":546,"description":547,"meta":548},"\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.",{},1787715770762]