I Ching Hexagram Meanings
The I Ching, or Book of Changes, answers through 64 hexagrams — six-line figures built from the eight trigrams, each naming a distinct situation and the wisest way through it. This library covers every hexagram in the classical King Wen sequence: its judgment, its image, and all six changing lines, condensed from the public-domain Legge translation. Study them one by one — or cast the coins free and let the oracle choose for you.
- 1. The Creative
- 2. The Receptive
- 3. Difficulty at the Beginning
- 4. Youthful Folly
- 5. Waiting
- 6. Conflict
- 7. The Army
- 8. Holding Together
- 9. Small Taming
- 10. Treading
- 11. Peace
- 12. Standstill
- 13. Fellowship
- 14. Great Possession
- 15. Modesty
- 16. Enthusiasm
- 17. Following
- 18. Work on the Decayed
- 19. Approach
- 20. Contemplation
- 21. Biting Through
- 22. Grace
- 23. Splitting Apart
- 24. Return
- 25. Innocence
- 26. Great Taming
- 27. Nourishment
- 28. Great Exceeding
- 29. The Abysmal
- 30. The Clinging
- 31. Influence
- 32. Duration
- 33. Retreat
- 34. Great Power
- 35. Progress
- 36. Darkening of the Light
- 37. The Family
- 38. Opposition
- 39. Obstruction
- 40. Deliverance
- 41. Decrease
- 42. Increase
- 43. Breakthrough
- 44. Coming to Meet
- 45. Gathering Together
- 46. Pushing Upward
- 47. Oppression
- 48. The Well
- 49. Revolution
- 50. The Cauldron
- 51. The Arousing
- 52. Keeping Still
- 53. Development
- 54. The Marrying Maiden
- 55. Abundance
- 56. The Wanderer
- 57. The Gentle
- 58. The Joyous
- 59. Dispersion
- 60. Limitation
- 61. Inner Truth
- 62. Small Exceeding
- 63. After Completion
- 64. Before Completion
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