The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 6
What does I Ching hexagram 6, Dispute, mean?
訟Heaven 乾 above
Water 坎 below
Hexagram 6 of the I Ching is Dispute (訟), Heaven over Water. Its judgment opens “Dispute: there is trust, but it is blocked.”
The judgment
訟：有孚，窒，惕，中吉，終凶。利見大人，不利涉大川。Dispute: there is trust, but it is blocked. Be careful. Stopping halfway brings good fortune; going to the end goes badly. It pays to see a great person. It doesn't pay to cross the great river.Zhou Yi 周易, 訟, judgment. Source
The image
天與水違行，訟；君子以作事謀始。Heaven and water go opposite ways. The noble person plans well before starting anything.Zhou Yi 周易, 訟, 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：不永所事，小有言，終吉。
- Second lineLeft out: this line speaks of a subject this site doesn't read.
- Third line六三：食舊德，貞厲，終吉。或從王事，无成。
- Fourth lineLeft out: this line speaks of a subject this site doesn't read.
- Fifth lineLeft out: this line speaks of a subject this site doesn't read.
- Top line上九：或錫之鞶帶，終朝三褫之。
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