蒙卦

Judgment（Original text）

亨。匪我求童蒙，童蒙求我。初噬告，再三渎，渎则不告。利贞。

Hexagram structure

Upper trigram

艮（Mountain） · Earth

Lower trigram

坎（Water） · Water

Mutual hexagram

复 · 地雷复

Reversed (zong)

屯 · 水雷屯

Opposite (cuo)

革 · 泽火革

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：发蒙，利用刑人，用说桎梏，以往吝。
2. Line 2九二：包蒙吉；纳妇吉；子克家。
3. Line 3六三：勿用取女；见金夫，不有躬，无攸利。
4. Line 4六四：困蒙，吝。
5. Line 5六五：童蒙，吉。
6. Line 6上九：击蒙；不利为寇，利御寇。