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小畜卦

Hexagram 9 · The Taming Power of the Small (Xiao Xu) (风天小畜)

Judgment(Original text)

亨。密云不雨,自我西郊。

Hexagram structure

Upper trigram
巽(Wind) · Wood
Lower trigram
乾(Heaven) · Metal
Mutual hexagram
睽 · 火泽睽
Reversed (zong)
履 · 天泽履
Opposite (cuo)
豫 · 雷地豫

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:复自道,何其咎,吉。
  2. Line 2九二:牵复,吉。
  3. Line 3九三:舆说辐,夫妻反目。
  4. Line 4六四:有孚,血去惕出,无咎。
  5. Line 5九五:有孚挛如,富以其邻。
  6. Line 6上九:既雨既处,尚德载,妇贞厉。月几望,君子征凶。

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