I Ching Oracle / Hexagrams / 31
The Judgement
Success. Perseverance furthers. To take a maiden to wife brings good fortune.
Mutual attraction; receive others with an empty, open heart.
The Image
A lake on the mountain; the noble one encourages people to approach him by his readiness to receive them.
This hexagram on ten matters
- WorkCAREER
- Mutual influence; receive others with an empty heart. Make room and people can enter.
- LoveRELATIONSHIP
- The most apt hexagram here. To take a maiden to wife brings good fortune — this is the hexagram's own subject, and both timing and feeling are present.
- MoneyFINANCE
- Do not force it. Gains here come through relationship, not calculation; get the people right and the rest follows.
- HealthBODY
- This hexagram moves up the body line by line: toe, calf, thigh, neck, jaw. Your sensitivity to small physical signals is heightened — pay attention.
- StudyLEARNING
- Easily moved, and easily diverted. If a man is agitated in mind, only the friends he fixes on will follow — an unsettled mind scatters what it learns.
- An examEXAM
- How you feel on the day matters. Get familiar with the venue and procedure beforehand; a settled mind performs.
- PeopleSOCIAL
- A period of strong social resonance. Receive people openly and you will find connection easier than expected.
- A choiceDECISION
- Follow instinct and feeling, though the fourth line warns against overthinking. Excessive calculation distorts it.
- TravelJOURNEY
- Go. In a hexagram of resonance, this journey tends to bring the right encounter.
- A lost itemLOST ITEM
- Search by feel. Recall the situation and your movements; the body's memory is often more accurate than the mind's.
The Six Lines
The influence shows itself in the big toe.
The influence shows in the big toe. No verdict, because the impulse has only just stirred; it is not yet time to act.
The influence shows itself in the calves of the legs. Misfortune. Tarrying brings good fortune.
The influence shows in the calves; misfortune, tarrying brings good fortune. The calf moves only with the foot. The misfortune is moving because others move.
The influence shows itself in the thighs. Holds to that which follows it. To continue is humiliating.
The influence shows in the thighs, holding to what follows. To continue is humiliating. The problem is the loss of your own judgement.
Perseverance brings good fortune. Remorse disappears. If a man is agitated in mind, only those friends upon whom he fixes his conscious thoughts will follow.
Perseverance brings good fortune, remorse disappears. The governing line. If a man is agitated in mind, only the friends he fixes on will follow — overthinking narrows what you can feel.
The influence shows itself in the back of the neck. No remorse.
The influence shows in the back of the neck; no remorse. Behind you, unseen and unmoving: influence without intention, and so unmixed.
The influence shows itself in the jaws, cheeks, and tongue.
The influence shows in the jaws, cheeks and tongue. No verdict, but the meaning is plain: all talk.
The governing line
Nuclear · Opposite · Reverse
The nuclear hexagram shows the middle stretch of the matter; the opposite is the same situation seen from the reverse position; the reverse is the view from the other party's side.