[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":560},["ShallowReactive",2],{"yijing-article-en-zhun":3,"yijing-articles-list-en":245},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"category":232,"date":233,"description":13,"extension":234,"image":6,"imageAlt":6,"meta":235,"navigation":236,"order":222,"palaces":6,"path":237,"seo":238,"series":6,"sitemap":239,"star":6,"stem":240,"tags":241,"__hash__":244},"content\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fzhun.md","I Ching Zhun Meaning: Hexagram 3 Explained",null,{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":219},"minimark",[10,14,17,20,25,28,36,42,48,51,55,58,61,64,67,70,74,77,80,83,86,89,93,96,103,109,115,121,124,128,131,134,147,150,153,157,175,179,184,187,192,195,200,203,208,211],[11,12,13],"p",{},"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.",[11,15,16],{},"Both miss it. Zhun is not telling you to quit, and not telling you to charge. It is the moment a thing just breaks the soil: the sprout is real, the earth is real, and rain is still pressing on the head.",[11,18,19],{},"After Qian 乾 and Kun 坤 comes Zhun. Heaven and Earth are there; things have to be born, and birth is always full, crowded, and rough. Draw this hexagram and the matter is usually “you can start, but starting itself is hard.” Hard does not mean you picked the wrong question.",[21,22,24],"h2",{"id":23},"the-image-kan-above-zhen-below-difficulty-at-the-beginning","The image: Kan above Zhen below, Difficulty at the Beginning",[11,26,27],{},"Zhun’s image is Kan 坎 above, Zhen 震 below. Water above, Thunder below: Difficulty at the Beginning. Thunder wants to move; water blocks it overhead, so moving is labor. Some people reverse above and below and write Thunder-Water. That tastes like Song 訟 nearby, and the whole hexagram will be read wrong.",[11,29,30,31,35],{},"The ",[32,33,34],"em",{},"Xugua"," puts it straight: 「屯者盈也，屯者物之始生也。」 Zhun is fullness; Zhun is the beginning of things. Fullness is packed, stuck there; beginning is just poking out. Two meanings stacked: not empty, but too full, too new, no path sorted yet.",[11,37,30,38,41],{},[32,39,40],{},"Tuan"," says: 「剛柔始交而難生。」 Firm and yielding first meet, and difficulty is born. And: 「動乎險中。」 Move in the midst of danger. Zhen below is movement; Kan above is danger. You have already moved, but you are moving in danger. In a reading this line is the most useful: you are not unmoving. You are moving in danger, so every step feels costly.",[11,43,30,44,47],{},[32,45,46],{},"Xiang"," says cloud and thunder, Zhun; the superior person orders and weaves. 經綸 is sorting silk, sorting government: taking a tangle and making thread. Draw Zhun and the homework is not sighing. It is starting to sort. Sort people, money, sequence. You can sort slowly. You cannot grab a handful and run.",[11,49,50],{},"The judgment has a line people often skip: 「勿用有攸往，利建侯。」 Do not rush to go far or settle the whole game. What is beneficial is first establishing someone who can take charge, first holding a position. In a startup that is finding a partner and a responsible person. At home it is someone taking the load. In love it is first saying where the relationship stands, not first writing the next thirty years.",[21,52,54],{"id":53},"career-and-wealth-when-you-draw-zhun","Career and wealth when you draw Zhun",[11,56,57],{},"Ask about career and draw Zhun: common scenes are you just quit, just registered, just took a project you have never done, just opened the stall. The product can be good and the market real, but there are not enough people, the licenses are not complete, cash suddenly breaks, and the key person is still watching.",[11,59,60],{},"The worst strategy then is the two extremes. One is “since I am here I will stake everything.” Zhun’s danger is still above; staking all is an easy way to step on the sprout. The other is “since it is hard I will not do it.” Then the sprout rots in the soil. What fits the hexagram is 磐桓: circling, adjusting back and forth, holding the place, gathering help. 利建侯 is that work.",[11,62,63],{},"For wealth, Zhun rarely brings a large sum at once. It is more like seed money, working capital, money to raise a position. You can open the books; you cannot empty the principal. Ask about investment and draw Zhun: not no opportunity, but the opportunity is still coming out of the soil. Do not treat a valuation as a result. Someone asks “can I break even this month,” draws Zhun, and I mostly say: this month, first stay alive. Breaking even is not this hexagram’s rhythm.",[11,65,66],{},"Interviews, taking work, launching something new: Zhun can move, but you have to accept stuck processes, people standing you up, conditions flipping. Stuck is Zhun’s daily life, not the world targeting you. If you try to live Zhun with Qian’s flying-dragon mind, you will feel the whole world is making it hard. You only misread the stage.",[11,68,69],{},"Ask about a partnership and Zhun almost always comes down to where the “marquis” is. Who decides, who puts in money, who carries the name, who is only helping. If that is unclear, the later “horses circling, weeping blood” will come. Zhun is not afraid of small. It is afraid of no backbone.",[21,71,73],{"id":72},"love-and-people-when-you-draw-zhun","Love and people when you draw Zhun",[11,75,76],{},"Ask about love and draw Zhun: the relationship is mostly at a beginning, or looks like one — just met, just got back together, just broke the window paper. The heart is moving; the road is mud.",[11,78,79],{},"Six in the second: 「屯如邅如，乘馬班如」— the picture is horses turning in place, wanting to go and unable to. It is not that the other person is necessarily playing you. Neither of you is ready for how to walk. Add 「匪寇婚媾」: from outside it looks like conflict or refusal; inside it is the marriage road, only the time has not come. Draw this kind of line and the stupidest move is defining the other person as an enemy.",[11,81,82],{},"If you are single and draw Zhun, a connection can come, and when it comes it will be slow, roundabout, and make you doubt you are imagining it. “Ten years before she is betrothed” need not be memorized as ten calendar years. It means the woman, or the one being asked, is right to hold still and not say yes yet. Forcing a wedding, a decision, or going public is like pouring boiling water on a sprout.",[11,84,85],{},"If you are already together, Zhun often appears when you want the next stage: meeting, meeting parents, living together, talking marriage. You can talk. Do not talk with an ultimatum. With people, Zhun also advises against going alone. When beginnings are hard, one person willing to speak for you is more useful than ten people telling you to believe in yourself. 利建侯: the marquis need not be a great figure. It is the person who can hold the situation steady for you.",[11,87,88],{},"Workplace relationships and Zhun: new team, new boss, new colleagues are the most common. No one knows anyone; the rules are not written; whoever grabs credit first also offends first. Weave the relationships first, then talk performance. Sort the silk, starting with people.",[21,90,92],{"id":91},"four-lines-of-zhun-you-must-know","Four lines of Zhun you must know",[11,94,95],{},"Of Zhun’s six lines, I always make students know these four cold. Not because the others do not matter. These four are the ones most often read backwards.",[11,97,98,102],{},[99,100,101],"strong",{},"Initial nine: 磐桓，利居貞，利建侯."," 磐桓 is staying there, circling, not charging out in one go. 利居貞: it is beneficial to keep correct and hold the present place. 利建侯: it is beneficial to establish help, a responsible person. Draw the initial nine and it is not telling you to lie flat. It is telling you to start, but what you start is the base: find people, set rules, set the stall straight. The first month of a startup, not burning ads, but thinking through stock, licenses, and who minds the shop: that is the initial nine.",[11,104,105,108],{},[99,106,107],{},"Six in the second: 屯如邅如，乘馬班如。匪寇婚媾，女子貞不字，十年乃字."," 班如 is the horses lined up, unable to go. The woman remaining correct and unbetrothed is not a fate of never marrying. It is that promising now is not appropriate. Draw six in the second: in love, do not give a dead promise yet; in work, do not sign a contract that binds you too tightly. If the other person pushes, you can still be slow. Slow is not cold. The sprout is still tender.",[11,110,111,114],{},[99,112,113],{},"Nine in the fifth: 屯其膏，小貞吉，大貞凶."," 膏 is grace, benefit, the rain that should come down. Nine in the fifth is the ruler’s place, but in Zhun even the ruler’s place holds the grease back; the benefit does not reach the people. Small matters kept correct are still lucky; forcing a great matter through at once is unlucky. Draw nine in the fifth and you may be the manager, the one putting in money, the one whose word is largest at home. Do not pinch the resources waiting for a “perfect time” to reward people. Moisten the small places first: pay first, keep the smallest piece of what you promised. Great plans, great weddings, great mergers: this line does not cheer them on.",[11,116,117,120],{},[99,118,119],{},"Upper six: 乘馬班如，泣血漣如."," Still horses turning in place, but already weeping blood. Zhun at the top: the difficulty of the beginning was never sorted, and the person is spent. Draw the upper six and it is not “one more push and it will open.” It is that this road has used force the wrong way for too long. Stop, change the question, find someone to pull you out of the mud. In love, the common picture is a long stall, waiting in pain for a name that does not come. In work, a project boiled until there are no people, no money, no words, and still no one will declare it over. The upper six’s mercy is allowing you to cry, and also requiring you not to ride that horse turning in place any longer.",[11,122,123],{},"The initial nine is hard but can establish. Six in the second is hard and does not permit. Nine in the fifth has grease that will not come down. The upper six is hard unto bleeding. Four places, four practices. You cannot paste them over with one sentence, “beginnings are always hard.”",[21,125,127],{"id":126},"the-classroom-move-i-correct-most-often","The classroom move I correct most often",[11,129,130],{},"Many people read Zhun as “the time has not come; do nothing.” That mixes Zhun with Qian’s “hidden dragon, do not act.” Qian’s first line is hidden: the force is not there yet. Zhun has already begun to be born; it is only hard. A seed and no seed yet are not the same thing.",[11,132,133],{},"I have students who draw Zhun write three lines:",[135,136,137,141,144],"ol",{},[138,139,140],"li",{},"What is the sprout of this matter? No sprout, it is not Zhun; you are overthinking.",[138,142,143],{},"Where is the danger? Money, people, rules, the body, the other person’s family: write it down.",[138,145,146],{},"Who is the marquis? If you cannot find one, go find one. Do not go on a distant campaign first.",[11,148,149],{},"Starting is not that you cannot do it. It is hard. The way through hardness is circling, sorting, establishing a marquis. People who think a beginning should be smooth meet the first nail and doubt they chose the wrong line. Zhun tells you: nails are standard equipment. What you learn is how to still move a little in danger, not wait for the danger to vanish by itself.",[11,151,152],{},"Moving in danger is not telling you to love risk. The matter has already moved, the danger is there, and you can only move while avoiding the deepest pit. That is not the same as Xu 需 later, “danger ahead, wait first.” Zhun has already been born. Xu is born but still small, and must be raised. Do not skip stages.",[21,154,156],{"id":155},"i-ching-zhun-further-reading","I Ching Zhun further reading",[11,158,159,160,165,166,165,170,174],{},"Before Zhun are Qian and Kun; after it is Meng 蒙. The force to start is borrowed from Qian; the capacity to carry is borrowed from Kun; after the sprout comes out, not knowing things is Meng. Compare: ",[161,162,164],"a",{"href":163},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fqian","I Ching Qian Meaning | Hexagram 1 How to Read: Hidden Dragon to Arrogant Dragon",", ",[161,167,169],{"href":168},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fkun","I Ching Kun Meaning | Hexagram 2 How to Read: Receptive Earth, Lost First Then Gained",[161,171,173],{"href":172},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fmeng","I Ching Meng Meaning | Hexagram 4 How to Read: Youthful Folly and Finding a Teacher",".",[21,176,178],{"id":177},"i-ching-zhun-faq","I Ching Zhun FAQ",[11,180,181],{},[99,182,183],{},"Does drawing Zhun mean this cannot be done?",[11,185,186],{},"Not that it cannot be done. That doing it will be crowded, slow, and will need people. The judgment has 元亨利貞. It is not a dead hexagram. What truly cannot be done is mostly taking 「勿用有攸往」 as “never go,” or treating 「利建侯」 as optional.",[11,188,189],{},[99,190,191],{},"I keep drawing Zhun in the first year of a startup. Should I close?",[11,193,194],{},"Look at the line. Initial nine and six in the second: you can endure, adjust, wait for people. Nine in the fifth: check whether the benefit is coming down. Upper six and still grinding: seriously calculate a stop-loss. Drawing the same hexagram again and again, also ask whether you have established a marquis. Keep going alone and Zhun will feel especially long.",[11,196,197],{},[99,198,199],{},"I asked about love and drew Zhun. Is the other person refusing me?",[11,201,202],{},"It may be refusal. It may also be 「匪寇婚媾」: it looks like a block, but it is not yet time to promise. Six in the second especially looks like this. What you watch is whether the other person is circling and finding it hard, not whether they said yes that day. Pressing “do you love me or not” has very low efficiency in Zhun.",[11,204,205],{},[99,206,207],{},"How is Zhun different from Pi 否?",[11,209,210],{},"Pi is not connecting; qi does not meet; the point is closed. Zhun is wanting to be born, being born; the point is hard. Pi’s strategy leans toward thrift and holding back. Zhun’s strategy leans toward establishing, sorting, finding help. Draw Pi and still open a shop: you are asking to be hit. Draw Zhun and do not move at all: you are smothering the sprout. Both hexagrams feel bad. 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Students drawing it often translate at once: this matter will be very pleasant.",{},{"path":297,"title":298,"description":299,"meta":300},"\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":302,"title":303,"description":304,"meta":305},"\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":307,"title":308,"description":309,"meta":310},"\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":312,"title":313,"description":314,"meta":315},"\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":317,"title":318,"description":319,"meta":320},"\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":322,"title":323,"description":324,"meta":325},"\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":327,"title":328,"description":329,"meta":330},"\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":332,"title":333,"description":334,"meta":335},"\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":337,"title":338,"description":339,"meta":340},"\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":342,"title":343,"description":344,"meta":345},"\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":347,"title":348,"description":349,"meta":350},"\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":352,"title":353,"description":354,"meta":355},"\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":357,"title":358,"description":359,"meta":360},"\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":362,"title":363,"description":364,"meta":365},"\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":367,"title":368,"description":369,"meta":370},"\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":372,"title":373,"description":374,"meta":375},"\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":377,"title":378,"description":379,"meta":380},"\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":382,"title":383,"description":384,"meta":385},"\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":387,"title":388,"description":389,"meta":390},"\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":392,"title":393,"description":394,"meta":395},"\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":397,"title":398,"description":399,"meta":400},"\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":168,"title":402,"description":403,"meta":404},"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":406,"title":407,"description":408,"meta":409},"\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":411,"title":412,"description":413,"meta":414},"\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":416,"title":417,"description":418,"meta":419},"\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":421,"title":422,"description":423,"meta":424},"\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":426,"title":427,"description":428,"meta":429},"\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":172,"title":431,"description":432,"meta":433},"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":435,"title":436,"description":437,"meta":438},"\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":440,"title":441,"description":442,"meta":443},"\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":163,"title":445,"description":446,"meta":447},"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":449,"title":450,"description":451,"meta":452},"\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":454,"title":455,"description":456,"meta":457},"\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":459,"title":460,"description":461,"meta":462},"\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":464,"title":465,"description":466,"meta":467},"\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":469,"title":470,"description":471,"meta":472},"\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":474,"title":475,"description":476,"meta":477},"\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":479,"title":480,"description":481,"meta":482},"\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":484,"title":485,"description":486,"meta":487},"\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":489,"title":490,"description":491,"meta":492},"\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":494,"title":495,"description":496,"meta":497},"\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":499,"title":500,"description":501,"meta":502},"\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":504,"title":505,"description":506,"meta":507},"\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":509,"title":510,"description":511,"meta":512},"\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":514,"title":515,"description":516,"meta":517},"\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":519,"title":520,"description":521,"meta":522},"\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":524,"title":525,"description":526,"meta":527},"\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":529,"title":530,"description":531,"meta":532},"\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":534,"title":535,"description":536,"meta":537},"\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":539,"title":540,"description":541,"meta":542},"\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":544,"title":545,"description":546,"meta":547},"\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":549,"title":550,"description":551,"meta":552},"\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":554,"title":555,"description":556,"meta":557},"\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":237,"title":5,"description":13,"meta":559},{},1787715771779]