咸卦

Judgment（Original text）

亨，利贞，取女吉。

Hexagram structure

Upper trigram

兑（Lake） · Metal

Lower trigram

艮（Mountain） · Earth

Mutual hexagram

姤 · 天风姤

Reversed (zong)

恒 · 雷风恒

Opposite (cuo)

损 · 山泽损

How to read changing lines

When a cast produces moving lines (three of a kind with coins, or a moving line in Mei Hua time casting), classical rules set the priority. Following Zhu Xi's Yixue Qimeng:

• One line movesRead the moving line's text of this hexagram as primary
• Two lines moveRead both moving lines' texts, the upper one takes precedence
• Three lines moveCombine the Judgments of this hexagram and the changed one (ben as zhen, changed as hui)
• Four lines moveRead the two unmoved lines' texts of the changed hexagram, the lower takes precedence
• Five lines moveRead the single unmoved line's text of the changed hexagram
• Six lines moveQian and Kun use their special 'Yong' texts; other hexagrams read the changed hexagram's Judgment

The Line texts are listed in full below.

Lines（Original text）

1. Line 1初六：咸其拇。
2. Line 2六二：咸其腓，凶，居吉。
3. Line 3九三：咸其股，执其随，往吝。
4. Line 4九四：贞吉悔亡，憧憧往来，朋从尔思。
5. Line 5九五：咸其脢，无悔。
6. Line 6上六：咸其辅，颊，舌。