The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 5
What does I Ching hexagram 5, Waiting, mean?
需Water 坎 above
Heaven 乾 below
Hexagram 5 of the I Ching is Waiting (需), Water over Heaven. Its judgment opens “Waiting: with trust, the way is bright and open.”
The judgment
需：有孚，光亨。貞吉，利涉大川。Waiting: with trust, the way is bright and open. Holding firm brings good fortune. It pays to cross the great river.Zhou Yi 周易, 需, judgment. Source
The image
雲上於天，需；君子以飲食宴樂。Clouds rise to the sky. The noble person eats, drinks and is at ease.Zhou Yi 周易, 需, 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：需于郊，利用恆，无咎。
- Second line九二：需于沙，小有言，終吉。
- Third line九三：需于泥，致寇至。
- Fourth lineLeft out: this line speaks of a subject this site doesn't read.
- Fifth line九五：需于酒食，貞吉。
- Top line上六：入于穴，有不速之客三人來，敬之終吉。
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