颐卦

Judgment（Original text）

贞吉。观颐，自求口实。

Hexagram structure

Upper trigram

艮（Mountain） · Earth

Lower trigram

震（Thunder） · Wood

Mutual hexagram

坤 · 坤为地

Reversed (zong)

颐 · 山雷颐

Opposite (cuo)

大过 · 泽风大过

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：舍尔灵龟，观我朵颐，凶。
2. Line 2六二：颠颐，拂经，于丘颐，征凶。
3. Line 3六三：拂颐，贞凶，十年勿用，无攸利。
4. Line 4六四：颠颐吉，虎视眈眈，其欲逐逐，无咎。
5. Line 5六五：拂经，居贞吉，不可涉大川。
6. Line 6上九：由颐，厉吉，利涉大川。