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家人卦

Hexagram 37 · The Family (Jia Ren) (风火家人)

Judgment(Original text)

利女贞。

Hexagram structure

Upper trigram
巽(Wind) · Wood
Lower trigram
离(Fire) · Fire
Mutual hexagram
未济 · 火水未济
Reversed (zong)
睽 · 火泽睽
Opposite (cuo)
解 · 雷水解

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:闲有家,悔亡。
  2. Line 2六二:无攸遂,在中馈,贞吉。
  3. Line 3九三:家人嗃嗃,悔厉吉;妇子嘻嘻,终吝。
  4. Line 4六四:富家,大吉。
  5. Line 5九五:王假有家,勿恤吉。
  6. Line 6上九:有孚威如,终吉。

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