The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 37
What does I Ching hexagram 37, The Household, mean?
家人Wind 巽 above
Fire 離 below
Hexagram 37 of the I Ching is The Household (家人), Wind over Fire. Its judgment opens “The household: it pays the woman to hold firm.”
The judgment
家人：利女貞。The household: it pays the woman to hold firm.Zhou Yi 周易, 家人, judgment. Source
The image
風自火出，家人；君子以言有物，而行有恆。Wind comes out of fire. The noble person's words have substance and their conduct lasts.Zhou Yi 周易, 家人, 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初九：閑有家，悔亡。
- Second line六二：无攸遂，在中饋，貞吉。
- Third line九三：家人嗃嗃，悔厲吉；婦子嘻嘻，終吝。
- Fourth line六四：富家，大吉。
- Fifth line九五：王假有家，勿恤。吉。
- Top line上九：有孚威如，終吉。
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