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I Ching (Yijing) 64 Hexagrams: Divination Guides

All 64 hexagrams in King Wen order: meaning, changing lines, and how to read career or relationship questions—so you can match an online reading to the hexagram you drew.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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