节卦

Judgment（Original text）

亨。苦节不可贞。

Hexagram structure

Upper trigram

坎（Water） · Water

Lower trigram

兑（Lake） · Metal

Mutual hexagram

颐 · 山雷颐

Reversed (zong)

涣 · 风水涣

Opposite (cuo)

旅 · 火山旅

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：不出户庭，无咎。
2. Line 2九二：不出门庭，凶。
3. Line 3六三：不节若，则嗟若，无咎。
4. Line 4六四：安节，亨。
5. Line 5九五：甘节，吉；往有尚。
6. Line 6上六：苦节，贞凶，悔亡。