[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":552},["ShallowReactive",2],{"yijing-article-en-sun":3,"yijing-articles-list-en":238},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"category":223,"date":224,"description":225,"extension":226,"image":6,"imageAlt":6,"meta":227,"navigation":228,"order":229,"palaces":6,"path":230,"seo":231,"series":6,"sitemap":232,"star":6,"stem":233,"tags":234,"__hash__":237},"content\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fsun.md","I Ching Sun Meaning: Hexagram 41 Explained",null,{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":211},"minimark",[10,14,17,22,30,36,39,45,49,52,55,58,61,64,68,71,74,77,80,84,87,94,100,106,112,118,124,128,131,134,137,140,143,167,171,176,179,184,187,192,195,200,203],[11,12,13],"p",{},"Hear Sun 損 and students wrinkle the face. The character looks like taking a loss, broken wealth, being shaved. In class I peel that layer first: Sun is not bad luck. It is decrease. Decrease correctly, and Yi 益 can follow.",[11,15,16],{},"The picture is Mountain over Lake, Gen above Dui. Mountain above — stopping; lake below — joy, the mouth. A lake under a mountain: the water is decreased a length by the mountain, and the lake under the mountain also nourishes the mountain. That is decreasing the below to increase the above. Many people write it as Xian 咸, Lake over Mountain. Xian is Dui above Gen: a lake on a mountain, influence, mutual feeling. Reverse above and below and Sun is taught as romance, and when you should decrease you go to talk feeling.",[18,19,21],"h2",{"id":20},"sun-after-loosening-there-must-be-some-loss","Sun: after loosening there must be some loss",[11,23,24,25,29],{},"The ",[26,27,28],"em",{},"Xu Gua"," says: 「緩必有所失，故受之以損。」 After loosening there must be some loss, so Sun follows. Before it is Xie 解: opening, loosening. After opening, some of what you were holding drops. Dropping is not necessarily disaster. The structure is decreasing. Draw Sun: the matter you asked about is in a stage of decreasing, letting go, sending surplus below up to what must be fed.",[11,31,24,32,35],{},[26,33,34],{},"Tuan"," says: 「損，損下益上，其道上行。」 Decrease below, increase above; the way goes upward. In a company: the base tightens first, resources gather toward the trunk. In a house: spend less, concentrate force on the one end that must be fed. In yourself: fewer desires, less temper. Not forever drawing from below to fill above. For this stretch, the way goes upward.",[11,37,38],{},"The judgment: 「有孚，元吉，無咎，可貞，利有攸往。曷之用？二簋可用享。」 There is sincerity: great fortune, no blame, it can persist; beneficial to go somewhere. What to use? Two bowls suffice for offering. I copy this every time. Students think Sun must be a great sacrifice, a great bleeding. The hexagram says not necessarily. The heart is there, the measure is right: thin is enough. A lavish offering is sometimes fake.",[11,40,24,41,44],{},[26,42,43],{},"Xiang"," says: 「山下有澤，損。君子以懲忿窒欲。」 A lake under the mountain, Sun. The superior person punishes anger and blocks desire. The first cut of decrease is often not money. It is anger and desire. If anger is not punished and desire not blocked, the decreases that follow all cut the wrong object: what should stay is chopped; what should be chopped stays.",[18,46,48],{"id":47},"career-and-wealth-is-what-you-decrease-actually-surplus","Career and wealth: is what you decrease actually surplus?",[11,50,51],{},"Ask about career and draw Sun: as a whole, do not expand; gather in. Decrease projects, headcount, spectacle; send nourishment to the one line that can live. Cut the redundant. Do not dig out the root. The initial nine: 「已事遄往，無咎，酌損之」— when your own matter is done, go quickly; decrease with measure, no blame. Finish what is in your part, then support what is above. Decrease how much is a matter of measure, not one knife killing it.",[11,53,54],{},"In wealth, Sun often appears when asking about cutting costs, whether to sell, whether to drop a hole. The direction is usually: decrease correctly, great fortune. Decrease at random, chopping even the liquid funds that keep you alive, is not decreasing below to increase above. It is injuring yourself. Nine in the second: 「利貞，征凶，弗損益之」— beneficial to persist; to campaign is unfortunate; do not decrease, and you increase. Guard what is correct; going out to campaign is unfortunate. This line is often: do not attack outward, and you may not decrease — you may even increase.",[11,56,57],{},"Investing and drawing Sun: first ask whether this money is surplus. Surplus can be decreased, to complete something more above. Living costs, the survival position, are not two bowls used to perform sincerity. Two bowls are thin, not empty. Ask about a partnership and draw Sun: often one person must first yield profit, name, that extra length of power. After yielding, six in the fifth’s ten-peng tortoise is more likely to come.",[11,59,60],{},"Ask about losing weight, quitting, and this hexagram also often appears. The lake is the mouth, enjoyment; the mountain is stopping. The mouth must be stopped a length. Punish anger, block desire, in the body: one bite less, one anger less. Not humiliating yourself. Letting the mountain above remain. Ask about surgery, pulling a tooth, cutting a spoiled partnership: also Sun. What you decrease is the illness. It must be chuan 遄 — quick. Drag it chronic and it is not decreasing the illness.",[11,62,63],{},"Sun also often appears when asking about filial duty, support, whether to send resources upward. Decrease below to increase above: the generation at home needs it, this generation tightens a length. If there is sincerity, two bowls suffice. No sincerity, only being drawn from: watch whether the lake is already dry.",[18,65,67],{"id":66},"sun-in-love-yield-the-qi-not-yield-the-self-away","Sun in love: yield the qi, not yield the self away",[11,69,70],{},"Ask about love and draw Sun: someone in the bond must decrease first. What decreases may be face, frequency, the sentence “I must be right.” Not an order to be a punching bag. Decrease below to increase above: if you are already at the very bottom, decrease further and there is no above left to increase. See who yields, and to what.",[11,72,73],{},"Six in the third: 「三人行，則損一人；一人行，則得其友。」 Three walking, one is decreased; one walking, obtains a companion. The most common picture in love: a third voice is clipped into a two-person bond — parents, an ex, a friend group, that “we” always in the room. Draw six in the third: what you decrease is the extra person, not yourself. If you are single, sometimes it is hanging three lines at once, and the lines decrease each other. Walk one first, then you obtain a friend.",[11,75,76],{},"If you are already together, Sun can be seeing less for a while, spending less, quarreling less, sending force to what you jointly feed: a house, a child, one side’s difficulty. Six in the fourth: 「損其疾，使遄有喜，無咎。」 Decrease the illness, make it quick, and there is joy; no blame. The illness in love is often old resentment, a bad habit, a thorn left untreated. Decreasing illness must be quick. Drag it chronic and it is not decreasing illness. It is feeding illness.",[11,78,79],{},"Six in the fifth: 「或益之十朋之龜，弗克違，元吉。」 Someone may increase you with a tortoise worth ten peng; you cannot refuse; great fortune. Decrease to the middle, and someone above will fill you. So Sun is not one-way loss. First be sincere, first decrease surplus, and increase comes from the other end. Ask first “I want the ten-peng tortoise” and then pretend to decrease: the hexagram can see it.",[18,81,83],{"id":82},"suns-six-lines-are-not-all-bitter-bitter-is-decreasing-the-wrong-thing","Sun’s six lines are not all bitter — bitter is decreasing the wrong thing",[11,85,86],{},"The most common classroom error is treating Sun as a run of bad luck. Several lines say: decrease correctly, and it is fortunate.",[11,88,89,93],{},[90,91,92],"strong",{},"Initial nine: 已事遄往，無咎，酌損之."," Your own matter done, go quickly. Decrease with measure. New, lower: finish what is in your part, then support. Not martyrdom on the first move.",[11,95,96,99],{},[90,97,98],{},"Nine in the second: 利貞，征凶，弗損益之."," This line is often skipped. Not telling you to decrease. Telling you not to campaign. Campaign, and it is unfortunate. Do not attack at random, and you may not decrease, may increase. Ask whether to open another battlefield: nine in the second mostly says no.",[11,101,102,105],{},[90,103,104],{},"Six in the third: 三人行則損一人."," Relationship, partnership, team: the extra one must decrease. Three walking is not liveliness. It splits the force.",[11,107,108,111],{},[90,109,110],{},"Six in the fourth: 損其疾."," Decrease the illness, not the life. The object must be right. Decrease the partner and keep the illness: reading it backward.",[11,113,114,117],{},[90,115,116],{},"Upper nine: 弗損益之，無咎，貞吉，利有攸往，得臣無家."," At the top you may not decrease, and increase. No blame; persistence fortunate; beneficial to go; obtaining servants without a private house. Help comes, and comes publicly, not as if only tending its own house. Sun walked to the end: what should go out has gone out. Decrease further and it is too far. Draw the upper nine: stop operating on yourself. Begin using people. Begin going.",[11,119,120,121,123],{},"So Sun’s fortune sits on time. The ",[26,122,34],{}," later says: decrease and increase, fullness and emptiness, go with the time. When the time should decrease, decrease. When it should not, do not. Make Sun a character and a person becomes someone always cutting themselves.",[18,125,127],{"id":126},"in-class-i-have-students-write-two-lists-first","In class I have students write two lists first",[11,129,130],{},"One is surplus. Spending, meetings, anger, night eating, relationships that do not help and only consume. This list is the material, beyond the two bowls, that can be taken to offer.",[11,132,133],{},"One cannot be emptied. Credit, the body, the end you truly mean to increase. This list is not for sacrifice. Empty it, and what is above also collapses.",[11,135,136],{},"Decrease below to increase above: the below cannot die. A lake under the mountain: dry the lake, and the mountain does not look well either. Draw Sun: decrease the overflow of the lake, not pump the lake dry.",[11,138,139],{},"Go with the time: the word time is tightest. Still expanding in a month that should decrease: not knowing Sun. Still cutting yourself when it should not decrease: making Sun a character. Nine in the second, campaign unfortunate; upper nine, do not decrease, increase: brakes at both ends. The middle lines are the true decrease. Align the time before you align the amount.",[11,141,142],{},"Two bowls suffice for offering also reminds: a small scene is not shameful. In a year of cutting costs, you can still offer, still keep ritual — the measure returns to what you can bear. An empty spectacle to keep face: face is above, and the below collapses first.",[11,144,145,146,151,152,156,157,161,162,166],{},"Ask whether after decrease it comes back: the next hexagram is Yi. Read together: ",[147,148,150],"a",{"href":149},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fyi_increase","I Ching Yi (Increase) Meaning | Hexagram 42 How to Read: Increase, How to Give Downward",". Do not read above and below as Xian. Xian is influence; Sun is decrease. Feeling uses Xian; letting go, decreasing, offering uses Sun: ",[147,153,155],{"href":154},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxian","I Ching Xian Meaning | Hexagram 31 How to Read: Influence, How to Read Feeling",". Sun’s posture is close to Modesty: ",[147,158,160],{"href":159},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fqian_modesty","I Ching Qian (Modesty) Meaning | Hexagram 15 How to Read: All Six Lines Fortunate",". In peace, not knowing how to gather in, Tai turns to Pi; not decreasing when you should is like leaving fullness until it overflows: ",[147,163,165],{"href":164},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Ftai","I Ching Tai Meaning | Hexagram 11 How to Read: Advance or Guard in Peace",".",[18,168,170],{"id":169},"i-ching-sun-faq","I Ching Sun FAQ",[11,172,173],{},[90,174,175],{},"If I draw Sun, must wealth break, must I fall ill?",[11,177,178],{},"Not necessarily. Broken wealth and illness are two faces of Sun. Ask about costs, quitting, yielding a seat, speaking less, and drawing Sun is often the right topic. Treat every Sun as disaster, and when you should decrease you cannot bear to start.",[11,180,181],{},[90,182,183],{},"Two bowls suffice for offering: is a casual gesture enough?",[11,185,186],{},"Thin is allowed; fake is not. The judgment begins with “there is sincerity.” Without sincerity, two plates are also perfunctory. With sincerity, two plates suffice. Using a large scene to cover an empty heart is not offering. It is acting.",[11,188,189],{},[90,190,191],{},"I asked about losing weight or quitting smoking and drew Sun. What do I do?",[11,193,194],{},"Treat it as punishing anger and blocking desire, not as self-abuse. Decrease with measure: a little at a time, and go quickly to act. Campaign unfortunate: do not use extreme tactics to campaign against your own body. The body is the lake. Pump it dry and there is no next round.",[11,196,197],{},[90,198,199],{},"Original Sun, resulting Yi: can I begin to expand?",[11,201,202],{},"The direction walks toward increase. The cut in front of you often still has to be finished. Yi is decreasing above to increase below: that is later. If surplus has not been decreased now, the increase that follows will increase the wrong place.",[11,204,205,206,210],{},"For an online hexagram, try ",[147,207,209],{"href":208},"\u002Fen\u002Flove\u002Fdivination","free love divination"," and match both birthdays with this reading.",{"title":212,"searchDepth":213,"depth":214,"links":215},"",4,3,[216,218,219,220,221,222],{"id":20,"depth":217,"text":21},2,{"id":47,"depth":217,"text":48},{"id":66,"depth":217,"text":67},{"id":82,"depth":217,"text":83},{"id":126,"depth":217,"text":127},{"id":169,"depth":217,"text":170},"I Ching","2026-08-25","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.","md",{},true,41,"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fsun",{"title":5,"description":225},{"loc":230},"en\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fsun",[235,236],"Lower Canon","Gen palace","6HVVMZoWG4h3L0fLzRZnSa6juKdNjk7l-qyAmlNb2C8",[239,244,249,254,259,264,269,274,279,284,289,294,299,304,309,314,319,324,329,334,339,344,349,354,359,364,369,374,379,384,389,394,399,404,409,414,419,424,429,434,439,444,448,453,458,463,468,473,475,479,484,489,494,498,503,508,513,518,523,528,532,537,542,547],{"path":240,"title":241,"description":242,"meta":243},"\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. Bi is indeed closeness, attaching, alliance.",{},{"path":245,"title":246,"description":247,"meta":248},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fbi_grace","I Ching Bi (Grace) Meaning: Hexagram 22","Draw Bi (Grace) 賁 and students often split in two camps. One feels: time to dress, packaging, renovation, a wedding, an image project.",{},{"path":250,"title":251,"description":252,"meta":253},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fbo","I Ching Bo Meaning: Hexagram 23 Explained","Draw Bo 剝 and in class someone’s face sinks first. Bo sounds like being pared, hollowed. Students often say straight: it is over, luck is falling.",{},{"path":255,"title":256,"description":257,"meta":258},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fcui","I Ching Cui Meaning: Hexagram 45 Explained","Gou 姤 is meeting. Met, things gather. Gathering is Cui 萃. Students drawing Cui easily think liveliness: a party, many people, a gathering.",{},{"path":260,"title":261,"description":262,"meta":263},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fdaguo","I Ching Da Guo Meaning: Hexagram 28","Draw Da Guo 大過 and in class the sentence I most often hear is: it is over, I made a great error. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":265,"title":266,"description":267,"meta":268},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fdaxu","I Ching Da Xu Meaning: Hexagram 26 Explained","Draw Da Xu 大畜 and students most often hear two sentences. One: about to make it, a great accumulation is coming. One: keep saving, move nothing.",{},{"path":270,"title":271,"description":272,"meta":273},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fdayou","I Ching Da You Meaning: Hexagram 14","Draw Da You 大有 and the first sentence I most often hear in class is: I have made it, I can harvest. Use it to interpret an online hexagram reading.",{},{"path":275,"title":276,"description":277,"meta":278},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fdazhuang","I Ching Da Zhuang Meaning: Hexagram 34","Draw Da Zhuang 大壯 and the most common mistake is to treat it as Zhen 震. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":280,"title":281,"description":282,"meta":283},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fding","I Ching Ding Meaning: Hexagram 50 Explained","What Ding 鼎 most often has written wrong is not a line text. It is the picture. Apply the lines to love, career, and decisions.",{},{"path":285,"title":286,"description":287,"meta":288},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fdui","I Ching Dui Meaning: Hexagram 58 Explained","Dui 兌 sounds pleasant. Lake, joy, the mouth, speaking, being glad. Students drawing it often translate at once: this matter will be very pleasant.",{},{"path":290,"title":291,"description":292,"meta":293},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fdun","I Ching Dun Meaning: Hexagram 33 Explained","Draw Dun 遯 and the first thing students say is: do I have to run? Is it over? Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":295,"title":296,"description":297,"meta":298},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Ffeng","I Ching Feng Meaning: Hexagram 55 Explained","Draw Feng 豐 and the first sentence I hear in class is: we have made it. Apply the lines to love, career, and decisions. Learn how abundance changes the reading.",{},{"path":300,"title":301,"description":302,"meta":303},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Ffu","I Ching Fu Meaning: Hexagram 24 Explained","Draw Fu 復 and in class someone often exhales at once: the turn has come, I can charge. Use it to interpret an online hexagram reading.",{},{"path":305,"title":306,"description":307,"meta":308},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fge","I Ching Ge Meaning: Hexagram 49 Explained","Draw Ge 革 and students most easily do two opposite things: one, revolution at once; two, fright so nothing moves. Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":310,"title":311,"description":312,"meta":313},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fgen","I Ching Gen Meaning: Hexagram 52 Explained","Draw Gen 艮 and many people hear two words: you may not move. Apply the lines to love, career, and decisions. Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":315,"title":316,"description":317,"meta":318},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fgou","I Ching Gou Meaning: Hexagram 44 Explained","Guai 夬 is deciding. After deciding you will meet. Meeting is Gou 姤. Use it to interpret an online hexagram reading. Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":320,"title":321,"description":322,"meta":323},"\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":325,"title":326,"description":327,"meta":328},"\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":330,"title":331,"description":332,"meta":333},"\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":335,"title":336,"description":337,"meta":338},"\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":340,"title":341,"description":342,"meta":343},"\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":345,"title":346,"description":347,"meta":348},"\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":350,"title":351,"description":352,"meta":353},"\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":355,"title":356,"description":357,"meta":358},"\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":360,"title":361,"description":362,"meta":363},"\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. Use it to interpret an online hexagram reading.",{},{"path":365,"title":366,"description":367,"meta":368},"\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":370,"title":371,"description":372,"meta":373},"\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":375,"title":376,"description":377,"meta":378},"\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":380,"title":381,"description":382,"meta":383},"\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":385,"title":386,"description":387,"meta":388},"\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":390,"title":391,"description":392,"meta":393},"\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":395,"title":396,"description":397,"meta":398},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fkun","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":400,"title":401,"description":402,"meta":403},"\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":405,"title":406,"description":407,"meta":408},"\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":410,"title":411,"description":412,"meta":413},"\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":415,"title":416,"description":417,"meta":418},"\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":420,"title":421,"description":422,"meta":423},"\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":425,"title":426,"description":427,"meta":428},"\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":430,"title":431,"description":432,"meta":433},"\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":435,"title":436,"description":437,"meta":438},"\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":440,"title":441,"description":442,"meta":443},"\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":159,"title":445,"description":446,"meta":447},"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":449,"title":450,"description":451,"meta":452},"\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":454,"title":455,"description":456,"meta":457},"\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":459,"title":460,"description":461,"meta":462},"\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":464,"title":465,"description":466,"meta":467},"\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":469,"title":470,"description":471,"meta":472},"\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":230,"title":5,"description":225,"meta":474},{},{"path":164,"title":476,"description":477,"meta":478},"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":480,"title":481,"description":482,"meta":483},"\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":485,"title":486,"description":487,"meta":488},"\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":490,"title":491,"description":492,"meta":493},"\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":154,"title":495,"description":496,"meta":497},"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":499,"title":500,"description":501,"meta":502},"\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":504,"title":505,"description":506,"meta":507},"\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":509,"title":510,"description":511,"meta":512},"\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":514,"title":515,"description":516,"meta":517},"\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":519,"title":520,"description":521,"meta":522},"\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":524,"title":525,"description":526,"meta":527},"\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":149,"title":529,"description":530,"meta":531},"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":533,"title":534,"description":535,"meta":536},"\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":538,"title":539,"description":540,"meta":541},"\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":543,"title":544,"description":545,"meta":546},"\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":548,"title":549,"description":550,"meta":551},"\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.",{},1787715771037]