困卦

Judgment（Original text）

亨，贞，大人吉，无咎，有言不信。

Hexagram structure

Upper trigram

兑（Lake） · Metal

Lower trigram

坎（Water） · Water

Mutual hexagram

家人 · 风火家人

Reversed (zong)

井 · 水风井

Opposite (cuo)

贲 · 山火贲

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：臀困于株木，入于幽谷，三岁不觌。
2. Line 2九二：困于酒食，朱绂方来，利用亨祀，征凶，无咎。
3. Line 3六三：困于石，据于蒺藜，入于其宫，不见其妻，凶。
4. Line 4九四：来徐徐，困于金车，吝，有终。
5. Line 5九五：劓刖，困于赤绂，乃徐有说，利用祭祀。
6. Line 6上六：困于葛藟，于臲卼，曰动悔。有悔，征吉。