Hexagram 37 家人 changing to hexagram 7 師
Changing lines (counted from the bottom): 1, 2, 3, 5, 6.
What to read
Five changing lines: read the one unchanged line of the resulting hexagram. (Rule set out by Zhu Xi in the Yixue qimeng.)
Hexagram 7 師, line 4
師左次，无咎。
The fourth line, divided, shows the host in retreat. There is no error.
The two hexagrams
Hexagram 37 家人 — judgment
利女貞。
For (the realisation of what is taught in) Kiâ Zăn, (or for the regulation of the family), what is most advantageous is that the wife be firm and correct.
Hexagram 7 師 — judgment
貞丈人吉，无咎。
Sze indicates how, in the case which it supposes, with firmness and correctness, and (a leader of) age and experience, there will be good fortune and no error.
The changing lines of hexagram 37
| Line | Chinese | Legge |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 閑有家，悔亡。 | The first line, undivided, shows its subject establishing restrictive regulations in his household. Occasion for repentance will disappear. |
| 2 | 无攸遂，在中饋，貞吉。 | The second line, divided, shows its subject taking nothing on herself, but in her central place attending to the preparation of the food. Through her firm correctness there will be good fortune. |
| 3 | 家人嗃嗃，悔厲吉；婦子嘻嘻，終吝。 | The third line, undivided, shows its subject (treating) the members of the household with stern severity. There will be occasion for repentance, there will be peril, (but) there will (also) be good fortune. If the wife and children were to be smirking and chattering, in the end there would be occasion for regret. |
| 5 | 王假有家，勿恤。吉。 | The fifth line, undivided, shows the influence of the king extending to his family. There need be no anxiety; there will be good fortune. |
| 6 | 有孚威如，終吉。 | The topmost line, undivided, shows its subject possessed of sincerity and arrayed in majesty. In the end there will be good fortune. |
English: James Legge (1882), public domain. Chinese: Zhou Yi.
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