The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 3

What does I Ching hexagram 3, Sprouting, mean?

The judgment

屯：元亨，利貞。勿用有攸往，利建侯。Sprouting: great success, and it pays to hold firm. Don't set out yet. It pays to appoint helpers.Zhou Yi 周易, 屯, judgment. Source

The image

雲雷，屯；君子以經綸。Cloud and thunder. The noble person sets things in order.Zhou Yi 周易, 屯, 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.

1. First line初九：磐桓，利居貞，利建侯。
2. Second line六二：屯如邅如，乘馬班如，匪寇婚媾，女子貞不字，十年乃字。
3. Third line六三：即鹿无虞，惟入于林中，君子幾不如舍，往吝。
4. Fourth line六四：乘馬班如，求婚媾，往，吉无不利。
5. Fifth line九五：屯其膏；小貞吉，大貞凶。
6. Top lineLeft out: this line speaks of a subject this site doesn't read.

The Chinese is the received text of the Zhou Yi; the English is ours. Lines and images that speak of punishments, prisons, illness or money are left out. For entertainment and self-reflection.

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