[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":547},["ShallowReactive",2],{"yijing-article-en-xiaoguo":3,"yijing-articles-list-en":232},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"category":217,"date":218,"description":219,"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\u002Fxiaoguo.md","I Ching Xiao Guo Meaning: Hexagram 62",null,{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":205},"minimark",[10,14,17,20,28,33,39,42,45,51,55,58,61,64,67,70,73,77,80,83,86,89,93,100,106,112,118,124,130,134,137,140,143,161,165,170,173,178,181,186,189,194,197],[11,12,13],"p",{},"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. Xiao 小 is the yin, fine, lower end that may go a little beyond. Great matters, upward, flying high: this hexagram does not allow.",[11,15,16],{},"Recognize the hexagram first. Xiao Guo is Thunder over Mountain, Zhen above Gen. Mountain below — stopping; thunder above — movement. Thunder on a mountain: sound travels far, the body is not large, like a flying bird leaving only sound. Four yin, two yang: yin many, yang few, so the small one goes beyond. It is most often mixed with Da Guo 大過. Da Guo is Lake over Wind: four yang, two yin, yang gone too far, the ridgepole bent. One is yin a little beyond. One is yang too heavy. The names differ by one character; the structures are opposite.",[11,18,19],{},"Some people also read it as Yi (Nourishment) 頤. Yi is Mountain over Thunder, Gen above Zhen: nourishing. Xiao Guo is Thunder over Mountain, above and below swapped. One wants you to nourish what is correct. One wants you to go a little beyond in small matters, not in great ones. Reverse the picture, and “fitting to go down” is advised as “go do something large.”",[11,21,22,23,27],{},"The ",[24,25,26],"em",{},"Xu Gua"," says: 「有其信者必行之，故受之以小過。」 Those who have trust must act on it, so Xiao Guo follows. Before it is Zhong Fu 中孚. Trust there, it must be taken to act. Acting, you cannot help going a little beyond: one more step, one more sentence, a little more given. So Xiao Guo follows. Trust that does not act is empty. Acting without measure, and a small going-beyond becomes the disaster of a flying bird leaving.",[29,30,32],"h2",{"id":31},"xiao-guo-small-matters-yes-great-matters-no-not-fitting-to-go-up-fitting-to-go-down","Xiao Guo: small matters yes, great matters no; not fitting to go up, fitting to go down",[11,34,22,35,38],{},[24,36,37],{},"Tuan"," says: 「小過，小者過而亨也。過以利貞，與時行也。」 Xiao Guo: the small one goes beyond, and it opens. Going beyond, beneficial to persist, going with the time. In the small, a little beyond: instead it opens. Going beyond must be beneficial to what is correct, must go with the time. The yielding obtains the center: therefore small matters are fortunate. The firm loses its seat and is not centered: therefore great matters are not allowed. There is the image of a flying bird. A flying bird leaves its sound: not fitting to go up, fitting to go down, great fortune. Up is contrary; down is yielding.",[11,40,41],{},"The judgment almost says this again: 「亨。利貞。可小事，不可大事。飛鳥遺之音。不宜上，宜下。大吉。」 Opening. Beneficial to persist. Small matters allowed, great matters not. A flying bird leaves its sound. Not fitting to go up, fitting to go down. Great fortune. In class I have people copy these sentences as a door guard. Draw Xiao Guo: first split the matter you asked into small or great. Changing a sentence, sending a gift, tweaking a process, going to apologize, finishing a detail: small, often fortunate. Opening a company, reversing a board, traveling far, a public break, staking the whole body: great, this hexagram does not escort.",[11,43,44],{},"A flying bird leaves only sound. You heard it; the bird has already passed. Xiao Guo’s timing is like that: what you can do is this small stretch now, not flying high to chase a whole view. Fitting to go down: a little more modest, concrete, near the ground. Fitting to go up: wanting higher, brighter, more seen: contrary. The upper six is flying until leaving: unfortunate, called disaster and fault.",[11,46,22,47,50],{},[24,48,49],{},"Xiang"," says: 「山上有雷，小過。君子以行過乎恭，喪過乎哀，用過乎儉。」 Thunder on a mountain, Xiao Guo. The superior person in conduct goes beyond in respect, in mourning goes beyond in grief, in use goes beyond in thrift. Three “going beyond”: all toward down, gathering in, the fine. None is going beyond in strength, luxury, arrogance. That is Xiao Guo’s way of going beyond.",[29,52,54],{"id":53},"career-do-the-small-the-below-wealth-do-not-fly","Career: do the small, the below; wealth: do not fly",[11,56,57],{},"Ask about career and draw Xiao Guo: the whole strategy is do the small matters that can be done a little more, take the great matter you want to do apart. Going beyond in respect: toward clients, details, ritual, you can be more thorough than peers. Going beyond in thrift: lock costs first. Going public, merging, fighting a leader: not on this hexagram’s flight.",[11,59,60],{},"Six in the second: 「過其祖，遇其妣；不及其君，遇其臣。無咎。」 Passing the grandfather, meeting the grandmother; not reaching the ruler, meeting the minister. No blame. Going past the grandfather, meeting the grandmother; not meeting the ruler, meeting the minister. A generation short going up, a grade short: instead no blame. In career: need not reach the largest person directly. First meet the layer you can meet. Reporting across grades, going straight to the largest name, skipping the middle: looks brave. Xiao Guo does not like it. Meeting the minister: treat the middle layer, the people who actually do the work, well, and the matter can succeed.",[11,62,63],{},"Nine in the third: 「弗過防之，從或戕之，凶。」 Not going beyond to guard; following, perhaps injured; unfortunate. Yang at the top of the lower trigram, firm. You should go a little beyond to guard; you do not; people who follow will harm you. Guarding in small matters is a necessary going-beyond. Draw nine in the third: do protection a little over: backup, one more sentence in a contract, block a petty person’s road first. Not going beyond: you will be injured. This line shows Xiao Guo is not telling you never to go beyond. The direction of going beyond must be right. Guarding: you may go beyond. Flying: you may not.",[11,65,66],{},"Nine in the fourth: 「無咎。弗過遇之。往厲必戒。勿用永貞。」 No blame. Not going beyond, you meet. Going, danger; you must be warned. Do not use lasting persistence. Yang not in position. Not going too far, then you can meet. Going further is dangerous: be warned. Do not write this expedient into a ten-year plan as the eternal correct way. Draw nine in the fourth: you can meet, handle what is in front. Do not write an expedient measure into a decade.",[11,68,69],{},"Six in the fifth: 「密雲不雨，自我西郊。公弋取彼在穴。」 Dense clouds, no rain, from our western suburbs. The duke shoots with a corded arrow, taking what is in a cave. Clouds dense, rain does not fall, coming from the western suburbs. A duke uses a corded arrow to shoot what is in a hole. The high does not rain: go take what is in a cave. In career: the large climate does not form (no rain); go take concrete results hidden in a hole — a small client, a case already in hand, the one you can shoot accurately. Do not stand in the suburbs waiting for a great rain.",[11,71,72],{},"In wealth, Xiao Guo suits small sums, thrift, taking out money already in a hole to use. It does not suit adding leverage to chase highs. A flying bird, unfortunate: the initial six already wrote it. The lowest yin already wants to fly: flying too early. In investing: principal not yet steady, first chasing the brightest target.",[29,74,76],{"id":75},"xiao-guo-in-love-small-matters-can-go-beyond-a-title-as-a-great-matter-do-not-force-a-flight","Xiao Guo in love: small matters can go beyond; a title as a great matter, do not force a flight",[11,78,79],{},"Ask about love and draw Xiao Guo: it suits a little more in small matters — more consideration, more grieving the other person’s grief, more gathering temper downward. Going beyond in respect is very useful in a relationship. It does not suit, in this hexagram, forcing marriage, a move, the other person resigning for you. Small matters yes, great matters no: in love very plain.",[11,81,82],{},"If you are single and draw Xiao Guo, the match is in the concrete, the below, occasions where you are willing to lower the posture. High-profile pursuit, a public confession show: up. Fitting to go down: seriously going to a small meeting is more fortunate than a large performance. The initial six, a flying bird, unfortunate: flying at once, the relationship has not yet the mountain’s stopping, thunder sounds first: easy misfortune.",[11,84,85],{},"If you are already together, Xiao Guo advises: chores, tone, ritual, you can go a little beyond. Face, conquest, who is more up: do not go beyond. Upper six: 「弗遇過之，飛鳥離之，凶，是謂災眚。」 Not meeting, going beyond; a flying bird leaves; unfortunate; this is called disaster and fault. Did not meet, yet went beyond; the bird left. In love: the person has not caught you, and you have already gone past the door, past speech, past the height the other can bear. After leaving, explaining again: only leftover sound.",[11,87,88],{},"Six in the second’s meeting the grandmother, meeting the minister, in love can be: first treat the other person’s mother, friends, people in actual life well. Need not first attack the hardest gate. Not reaching the ruler is not never meeting the parents. This step has not arrived.",[29,90,92],{"id":91},"flying-bird-lines-the-height-is-not-the-same","Flying-bird lines: the height is not the same",[11,94,95,99],{},[96,97,98],"strong",{},"Initial six: 飛鳥以凶."," A flying bird, unfortunate. At the very bottom, already flying. Time and place not enough, first using a bird’s image to go high. Unfortunate. Draw the initial six: fold the wings. If you can walk, walk. Do not fly.",[11,101,102,105],{},[96,103,104],{},"Six in the second: 過其祖，遇其妣；不及其君，遇其臣。無咎."," Going beyond cleverly, meeting the layer below. No blame. Draw six in the second: people you can find, meet first. High layers you cannot meet, set aside first. This is Xiao Guo’s line most able to get things done.",[11,107,108,111],{},[96,109,110],{},"Nine in the third: 弗過防之，從或戕之，凶."," When you should guard, not going a little beyond: injury after. Draw nine in the third: guarding can go beyond; the person need not be too firm. Not going beyond to guard is not being a superior person. It is giving people an opening.",[11,113,114,117],{},[96,115,116],{},"Nine in the fourth: 無咎。弗過遇之。往厲必戒。勿用永貞."," Able to meet, because you did not go beyond. Going further, danger. Draw nine in the fourth: see good, stop at “meeting.” Do not upgrade to “campaigning.”",[11,119,120,123],{},[96,121,122],{},"Six in the fifth: 密雲不雨，自我西郊。公弋取彼在穴."," The large does not form; take the small, what is in a cave. Draw six in the fifth: gather concrete results. Do not wait for the sky. The western suburbs are the yin direction, still fitting to go down.",[11,125,126,129],{},[96,127,128],{},"Upper six: 弗遇過之，飛鳥離之，凶，是謂災眚."," Did not meet, went beyond. The bird flies away. Disaster and fault: Heaven’s disaster plus human fault. Draw the upper six: drop height at once. Explaining, flying once more to chase: what you usually catch is sound.",[29,131,133],{"id":132},"in-class-i-use-xiao-guo-to-treat-two-kinds-of-people","In class I use Xiao Guo to treat two kinds of people",[11,135,136],{},"One kind dares go beyond in nothing, even apologizing, even finishing a detail, feeling it is overstepping. This kind should read “the small one goes beyond and it opens,” “conduct going beyond in respect.” Small matters not going beyond, and trust stops at Zhong Fu, cannot be acted.",[11,138,139],{},"One kind hears Xiao Guo as you may go beyond, then goes beyond in great matters. This kind should read “great matters not allowed,” “not fitting to go up.” A flying bird leaves its sound: it sounds beautiful. It is a warning: you have only sound left.",[11,141,142],{},"Contrast Da Guo: Da Guo is yang gone beyond, a ridgepole bent: you must brace, stand alone without fear. Xiao Guo is yin a little beyond: go down, be respectful, grieve, thrifty. The two “going beyond” have opposite prescriptions. Zhong Fu is trust; Xiao Guo is acting. Feng is abundance, fitting to be at noon; Xiao Guo is flying high, unfortunate. In abundance it is easiest to make a small matter into a great one, and easiest to step from Feng’s house into Xiao Guo’s leaving.",[11,144,145,146,151,152,151,156,160],{},"Related: ",[147,148,150],"a",{"href":149},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fdaguo","I Ching Da Guo Meaning | Hexagram 28 How to Read: Preponderance of the Great, How to Brace a Bent Ridgepole",", ",[147,153,155],{"href":154},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fzhongfu","I Ching Zhong Fu Meaning | Hexagram 61 How to Read: Inner Truth, Trust That Reaches Across Distance",[147,157,159],{"href":158},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Ffeng","I Ching Feng Meaning | Hexagram 55 How to Read: Abundance, How to Guard the Light at Midday",".",[29,162,164],{"id":163},"i-ching-xiao-guo-faq","I Ching Xiao Guo FAQ",[11,166,167],{},[96,168,169],{},"Does Xiao Guo mean I made a mistake and should reflect?",[11,171,172],{},"There can be reflection. The name’s guo is first going beyond. A little more respect in small matters, a little more thrift: opening, not a crime. Treat Xiao Guo as a hexagram of repentance, and even small matters that should be done you will not do. Truly look at regret: look whether you flew up, did a great matter. That is what this hexagram bars.",[11,174,175],{},[96,176,177],{},"What counts as a small matter, what as a great one?",[11,179,180],{},"Look at the scale you asked, and whether it is reversible. A letter, a visit, a small adjustment: mostly small. Marriage, moving, a lawsuit, staking principal at once, a public duel: mostly great. Unsure: fitting to go down. First do the reversible stretch. A flying bird, fitting to go down, great fortune: go down first, and no one will blame you.",[11,182,183],{},[96,184,185],{},"If I draw Xiao Guo, can I be promoted, found a company?",[11,187,188],{},"Promotion that is naturally meeting the minister, meeting the grandmother, grade by grade: perhaps. One leap to the ruler’s seat: up, not fitting. Founding that first does the small, first takes what is in a cave: perhaps. Coming on as the industry’s thunder: the initial six, upper six’s flying. Taking a great matter apart into a string of small ones is using Xiao Guo live. Forcing a small matter into a large vision is a cock’s cry — Zhong Fu’s upper nine’s illness; here in Xiao Guo it becomes disaster and fault.",[11,190,191],{},[96,192,193],{},"What is the difference between Xiao Guo and Da Guo?",[11,195,196],{},"Xiao Guo, yin many, Thunder over Mountain, fitting to go down, small matters allowed. Da Guo, yang many, Lake over Wind, a ridgepole bent, yang too heavy: you must stand alone to brace. One is do not fly too high. One is the beam already bent, how to get through. Look at how many yin and yang, whether above and below are Thunder-Mountain or Lake-Wind, and you will not mix them.",[11,198,199,200,204],{},"For an online hexagram, try ",[147,201,203],{"href":202},"\u002Fen\u002Flove\u002Fdivination","free love divination"," and match both birthdays with this reading.",{"title":206,"searchDepth":207,"depth":208,"links":209},"",4,3,[210,212,213,214,215,216],{"id":31,"depth":211,"text":32},2,{"id":53,"depth":211,"text":54},{"id":75,"depth":211,"text":76},{"id":91,"depth":211,"text":92},{"id":132,"depth":211,"text":133},{"id":163,"depth":211,"text":164},"I Ching","2026-08-25","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.","md",{},true,62,"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxiaoguo",{"title":5,"description":219},{"loc":224},"en\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxiaoguo",[229,230],"Lower Canon","Dui palace","-GUhtPC375cliuhwAiwUs-JcVioMh5BBsy8wiHu88Fk",[233,238,243,248,253,257,262,267,272,277,282,287,291,296,301,306,311,316,321,326,331,336,341,346,351,356,361,366,371,376,381,386,391,396,401,406,411,416,421,426,431,436,441,446,451,456,461,466,471,476,481,486,491,496,498,503,508,513,518,523,528,533,538,542],{"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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Use it to interpret an online hexagram reading.",{},{"path":357,"title":358,"description":359,"meta":360},"\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":362,"title":363,"description":364,"meta":365},"\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":367,"title":368,"description":369,"meta":370},"\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":372,"title":373,"description":374,"meta":375},"\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":377,"title":378,"description":379,"meta":380},"\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":382,"title":383,"description":384,"meta":385},"\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":387,"title":388,"description":389,"meta":390},"\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":392,"title":393,"description":394,"meta":395},"\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":397,"title":398,"description":399,"meta":400},"\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":402,"title":403,"description":404,"meta":405},"\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":407,"title":408,"description":409,"meta":410},"\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":412,"title":413,"description":414,"meta":415},"\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":417,"title":418,"description":419,"meta":420},"\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":422,"title":423,"description":424,"meta":425},"\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":427,"title":428,"description":429,"meta":430},"\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":432,"title":433,"description":434,"meta":435},"\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":437,"title":438,"description":439,"meta":440},"\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":442,"title":443,"description":444,"meta":445},"\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":447,"title":448,"description":449,"meta":450},"\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":452,"title":453,"description":454,"meta":455},"\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":457,"title":458,"description":459,"meta":460},"\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":462,"title":463,"description":464,"meta":465},"\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":467,"title":468,"description":469,"meta":470},"\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":472,"title":473,"description":474,"meta":475},"\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":477,"title":478,"description":479,"meta":480},"\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":482,"title":483,"description":484,"meta":485},"\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":487,"title":488,"description":489,"meta":490},"\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":492,"title":493,"description":494,"meta":495},"\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":224,"title":5,"description":219,"meta":497},{},{"path":499,"title":500,"description":501,"meta":502},"\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":504,"title":505,"description":506,"meta":507},"\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":509,"title":510,"description":511,"meta":512},"\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":514,"title":515,"description":516,"meta":517},"\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":519,"title":520,"description":521,"meta":522},"\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":524,"title":525,"description":526,"meta":527},"\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":529,"title":530,"description":531,"meta":532},"\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":534,"title":535,"description":536,"meta":537},"\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":154,"title":539,"description":540,"meta":541},"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.",{},1787715771298]