The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 38

What does I Ching hexagram 38, Looking Apart, mean?

The judgment

睽：小事吉。Looking apart: good fortune in small matters.Zhou Yi 周易, 睽, judgment. Source

The image

上火下澤，睽；君子以同而異。Fire above, the lake below. The noble person agrees and still stays different.Zhou Yi 周易, 睽, 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：悔亡，喪馬勿逐，自復；見惡人无咎。
2. Second line九二：遇主于巷，无咎。
3. Third line六三：見輿曳，其牛𧤊，其人天且劓，无初有終。
4. Fourth line九四：睽孤，遇元夫，交孚，厲无咎。
5. Fifth line六五：悔亡，厥宗噬膚，往何咎。
6. Top line上九：睽孤， 見豕負涂，載鬼一車， 先張之弧，後說之弧，匪寇婚媾，往遇雨則吉。

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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