比卦

Judgment（Original text）

吉。原筮元永贞，无咎。不宁方来，后夫凶。

Hexagram structure

Upper trigram

坎（Water） · Water

Lower trigram

坤（Earth） · Earth

Mutual hexagram

剥 · 山地剥

Reversed (zong)

师 · 地水师

Opposite (cuo)

大有 · 火天大有

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：有孚比之，无咎。有孚盈缶，终来有它吉。
2. Line 2六二：比之自内，贞吉。
3. Line 3六三：比之匪人。
4. Line 4六四：外比之，贞吉。
5. Line 5九五：显比，王用三驱，失前禽。邑人不诫，吉。
6. Line 6上六：比之无首，凶。