噬嗑卦

Judgment（Original text）

亨。利用狱。

Hexagram structure

Upper trigram

离（Fire） · Fire

Lower trigram

震（Thunder） · Wood

Mutual hexagram

蹇 · 水山蹇

Reversed (zong)

贲 · 山火贲

Opposite (cuo)

井 · 水风井

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初九：屦校灭趾，无咎。
2. Line 2六二：噬肤灭鼻，无咎。
3. Line 3六三：噬腊肉，遇毒；小吝，无咎。
4. Line 4九四：噬干胏，得金矢，利艰贞，吉。
5. Line 5六五：噬干肉，得黄金，贞厉，无咎。
6. Line 6上九：何校灭耳，凶。