Hexagram 32
Duration
Thunder over Wind
The judgment
亨，无咎。利贞，利有攸往Thunder and wind travel together and neither one stops the other. Lasting here comes from a rhythm that repeats, and a push too hard to repeat breaks it.
The image
Thunder and wind cross an open sky in one direction. Duration is a shape that survives its weather.
The six lines
Read from the bottom up. A line that moves is read here, and read again in the hexagram it becomes.
- 初六Line 1
浚恒，贞凶，无攸利
At the very start, digging for the deepest root burns the strength that should be rising.
Marked in the textominousnothing is served
- 九二Line 2
悔亡
Standing mid-course, the proof is already in hand; no further searching is needed.
Marked in the textregret clears
- 九三Line 3
不恒其德，或承之羞，贞吝
Switching stance again and again leaves a gap others remember, and this speaking starts by filling it.
Marked in the textnarrow going
- 九四Line 4
田无禽
Pacing an empty field, the motion continues while nothing ever comes up.
- 六五Line 5
恒其德，贞，妇人吉，夫子凶
Holding one way for years steadies a supporting role and stiffens a leading one.
Marked in the textauspiciousominous
- 上六Line 6
震恒，凶
At the end, adding more shake turns what should settle into fresh disturbance.
Marked in the textominous
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