The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 31
What does I Ching hexagram 31, Feeling, mean?
咸Lake 兌 above
Mountain 艮 below
Hexagram 31 of the I Ching is Feeling (咸), Lake over Mountain. Its judgment opens “Feeling: success.”
The judgment
咸：亨。利貞。取女吉。Feeling: success. It pays to hold firm. Taking a wife brings good fortune.Zhou Yi 周易, 咸, judgment. Source
The image
山上有澤，咸；君子以虛受人。A lake on a mountain. The noble person stays empty in order to receive others.Zhou Yi 周易, 咸, 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：咸其拇。
- Second line六二：咸其腓，凶，居吉。
- Third line九三：咸其股，執其隨，往吝。
- Fourth line九四：貞吉悔亡，憧憧往來，朋從爾思。
- Fifth line九五：咸其脢，无悔。
- Top line上六：咸其輔，頰，舌。
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