The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 47
What does I Ching hexagram 47, Hemmed In, mean?
困Lake 兌 above
Water 坎 below
Hexagram 47 of the I Ching is Hemmed In (困), Lake over Water. Its judgment opens “Hemmed in: success.”
The judgment
困：亨，貞大人吉，无咎，有言不信。Hemmed in: success. Holding firm brings a great person good fortune, with no blame. What is said is not believed.Zhou Yi 周易, 困, judgment. Source
The image
澤无水，困；君子以致命遂志。A lake with no water. The noble person gives everything to carry out their aim.Zhou Yi 周易, 困, 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：臀困于株木，入于幽谷，三歲不覿。
- Second line九二：困于酒食，朱紱方來，利用亨祀，征凶，无咎。
- Third line六三：困于石，據于蒺蔾，入于其宮，不見其妻，凶。
- Fourth line九四：來荼荼，困于金轝，吝，有終。
- Fifth line九五：劓刖，困于赤紱，乃徐有說，利用祭祀。
- Top line上六：困于葛藟，于臲卼，曰動悔。有悔，征吉。
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