Hexagram 13
Fellowship
Heaven over Fire
The judgment
同人于野，亨。利涉大川，利君子贞Fellowship works in the open field and narrows in the courtyard. Gather people around a shared task, and leave room at the edge of the circle.
The image
Fire rises toward heaven and both burn in the same direction. Agreement is a shared direction; a shared mood burns out by morning.
The six lines
Read from the bottom up. A line that moves is read here, and read again in the hexagram it becomes.
- 初九Line 1
同人于门，无咎
Barely started, opening the door to anyone outside; strength is thin, but the early opening leaves room later.
Marked in the textno blame
- 六二Line 2
同人于宗，吝
Partnering only inside a tight familiar circle narrows the road; a centered place is spent on closeness.
Marked in the textnarrow going
- 九三Line 3
伏戎于莽，升其高陵，三岁不兴
Troops hidden in the brush, then climbing the ridge to peer out: stuck between advance and retreat, and the halt runs long.
- 九四Line 4
乘其庸，弗克攻，吉
Close to the seat of power but halting on the wall, not attacking; pulling back is what frees the room to move.
Marked in the textauspicious
- 九五Line 5
同人，先号啕而后笑。大师克相遇
Crying out first, laughing after: two parties finally meet on the road, and feeling runs ahead of the meeting.
- 上九Line 6
同人于郊，无悔
Fellowship only out in the open beyond the walls; company thins, and looking back leaves little to regret.
Marked in the textregret
Where each changing line leads
Flip one line and it is a different hexagram. These are the six it becomes.
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The classical text is the Zhouyi, public domain, checked against a Wikisource transcript. The readings are ours. Daily hexagram