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Hexagram 24 · Return (Fu) (地雷复)

Judgment(Original text)

亨。出入无疾,朋来无咎。反复其道,七日来复,利有攸往。

Hexagram structure

Upper trigram
坤(Earth) · Earth
Lower trigram
震(Thunder) · Wood
Mutual hexagram
坤 · 坤为地
Reversed (zong)
剥 · 山地剥
Opposite (cuo)
姤 · 天风姤

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:不远复,无祗悔,元吉。
  2. Line 2六二:休复,吉。
  3. Line 3六三:频复,厉无咎。
  4. Line 4六四:中行独复。
  5. Line 5六五:敦复,无悔。
  6. Line 6上六:迷复,凶,有灾眚。用行师,终有大败,以其国君,凶;至于十年,不克征。

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