I Ching

Materials on the 64 I Ching hexagrams with judgments, line texts, and traditional interpretations, organized for use alongside divination tools.

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I Ching · No.01 · Ch'ien / The Creative

Khien (represents) what is great and originating, penetrating, advantageous, correct and firm.

I ChingYijingHexagram 1The CreativeDivination

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I Ching · No.02 · K'un / The Receptive

Khwăn (represents) what is great and originating, penetrating, advantageous, correct and having the firmness of a mare. When the superior man (here intended) has to make any movement, if he take the initiative, he will go astray; if he follow, he will find his (proper) lord. The advantageousness will be seen in his getting friends in the south-west, and losing friends in the north-east. If he rest in correctness and firmness, there will be good fortune.

I ChingYijingHexagram 2The ReceptiveDivination

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I Ching · No.03 · Chun / Difficulty at the Beginning

Kun (indicates that in the case which it presupposes) there will be great progress and success, and the advantage will come from being correct and firm. (But) any movement in advance should not be (lightly) undertaken. There will be advantage in appointing feudal princes.

I ChingYijingHexagram 3Difficulty at the BeginningDivination

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I Ching · No.04 · Mêng / Youthful Folly

Măng (indicates that in the case which it presupposes) there will be progress and success. I do not (go and) seek the youthful and inexperienced, but he comes and seeks me. When he shows (the sincerity that marks) the first recourse to divination, I instruct him. If he apply a second and third time, that is troublesome; and I do not instruct the troublesome. There will be advantage in being firm and correct.

I ChingYijingHexagram 4Youthful FollyDivination

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I Ching · No.05 · Hsü / Waiting (Nourishment)

Hsü intimates that, with the sincerity which is declared in it, there will be brilliant success. With firmness there will be good fortune; and it will be advantageous to cross the great stream.

I ChingYijingHexagram 5Waiting (Nourishment)Divination

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I Ching · No.06 · Sung / Conflict

Sung intimates how, though there is sincerity in one's contention, he will yet meet with opposition and obstruction; but if he cherish an apprehensive caution, there will be good fortune, while, if he must prosecute the contention to the (bitter) end, there will be evil. It will be advantageous to see the great man; it will not be advantageous to cross the great stream.

I ChingYijingHexagram 6ConflictDivination

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I Ching · No.07 · Shih / The Army

Sze indicates how, in the case which it supposes, with firmness and correctness, and (a leader of) age and experience, there will be good fortune and no error.

I ChingYijingHexagram 7The ArmyDivination

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I Ching · No.08 · Pi / Holding Together [union]

Pî indicates that (under the conditions which it supposes) there is good fortune. But let (the principal party intended in it) re-examine himself, (as if) by divination, whether his virtue be great, unintermitting, and firm. If it be so, there will be no error. Those who have not rest will then come to him; and with those who are (too) late in coming it will be ill.

I ChingYijingHexagram 8Holding Together [union]Divination

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I Ching · No.09 · Hsiao Ch'u / The Taming Power of the Small

Hsiâo Khû indicates that (under its conditions) there will be progress and success. (We see) dense clouds, but no rain coming from our borders in the west.

I ChingYijingHexagram 9The Taming Power of the SmallDivination

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