The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 33
What does I Ching hexagram 33, Withdrawing, mean?
遯Heaven 乾 above
Mountain 艮 below
Hexagram 33 of the I Ching is Withdrawing (遯), Heaven over Mountain. Its judgment opens “Withdrawing: success.”
The judgment
遯：亨。小利貞。Withdrawing: success. Small gains in holding firm.Zhou Yi 周易, 遯, judgment. Source
The image
天下有山，遯；君子以遠小人，不惡而嚴。A mountain under heaven. The noble person keeps petty people at a distance, strict without hatred.Zhou Yi 周易, 遯, 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：遯尾，厲，勿用有攸往。
- Second line六二：執之用黃牛之革，莫之勝說。
- Third lineLeft out: this line speaks of a subject this site doesn't read.
- Fourth line九四：好遯君子吉，小人否。
- Fifth line九五：嘉遯，貞吉。
- Top line上九：肥遯，无不利。
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