The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 20
What does I Ching hexagram 20, Watching, mean?
觀Wind 巽 above
Earth 坤 below
Hexagram 20 of the I Ching is Watching (觀), Wind over Earth. Its judgment opens “Watching: the hands are washed and the offering is not yet made.”
The judgment
觀：盥而不薦，有孚顒若。Watching: the hands are washed and the offering is not yet made. Trust, and a solemn look.Zhou Yi 周易, 觀, judgment. Source
The image
風行地上，觀；先王以省方，觀民設教。Wind crosses the earth. The old kings toured the regions, watched the people and set their teaching.Zhou Yi 周易, 觀, image. Source
The six lines
Read from the bottom up. In a cast, only the lines that move are read, and they turn the hexagram into another one. Here they are in the original; a reading translates the moving lines and reads them for the question asked.
- First line初六：童觀，小人无咎，君子吝。
- Second line六二：窺觀，利女貞。
- Third line六三：觀我生，進退。
- Fourth line六四：觀國之光，利用賓于王。
- Fifth line九五：觀我生，君子无咎。
- Top line上九：觀其生，君子无咎。
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