The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 52

What does I Ching hexagram 52, The Mountain, mean?

The judgment

艮：艮其背，不獲其身，行其庭，不見其人，无咎。The mountain: keeping the back still, not feeling the body. Walking through the courtyard and not seeing the people. No blame.Zhou Yi 周易, 艮, judgment. Source

The image

兼山，艮；君子以思不出其位。Mountains side by side. The noble person's thinking doesn't go beyond their place.Zhou Yi 周易, 艮, 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初六：艮其趾，无咎，利永貞。
2. Second line六二：艮其腓，不拯其隨，其心不快。
3. Third line九三：艮其限，裂其夤，厲閽心。
4. Fourth line六四：艮其身，无咎。
5. Fifth line六五：艮其輔，言有孚，悔亡。
6. Top line上九：敦艮，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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