需卦

Judgment（Original text）

有孚，光亨，贞吉。利涉大川。

Hexagram structure

Upper trigram

坎（Water） · Water

Lower trigram

乾（Heaven） · Metal

Mutual hexagram

睽 · 火泽睽

Reversed (zong)

讼 · 天水讼

Opposite (cuo)

晋 · 火地晋

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：需于郊。利用恒，无咎。
2. Line 2九二：需于沙。小有言，终吉。
3. Line 3九三：需于泥，致寇至。
4. Line 4六四：需于血，出自穴。
5. Line 5九五：需于酒食，贞吉。
6. Line 6上六：入于穴，有不速之客三人来，敬之终吉。