Hexagram 37
The Family
Wind over Fire
The judgment
利女贞Wind comes out of fire, and the household runs on what it burns inside. Order set at home shows up outside, and disorder does the same.
The image
Wind rises from the fire in the hearth and leaves by the roof. Small rules, kept day after day, hold a house up.
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
闲有家，悔亡
When a group first gathers, set the boundaries and rules first; don't rush into closeness.
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- 六二Line 2
无攸遂，在中馈，贞吉
Rather than starting something of your own, keep the daily provisions going; your place rests on this one task.
Marked in the textauspicious
- 九三Line 3
家人嗃嗃，悔厉吉；妇子嘻嘻，终吝
Tighten too hard and the mood strains, everyone holding their breath; loosen into horseplay and it won't come back.
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- 六四Line 4
富家，大吉
What the household holds finally exceeds what it needs; from here on, how it gets divided is visible to everyone in it.
Marked in the textauspicious
- 九五Line 5
王假有家，勿恤。吉
The one in the leading seat settles who belongs where, so no one below has to guess their side.
Marked in the textauspicious
- 上九Line 6
有孚威如，终吉
At the close, what holds is steady trustworthiness and refusing to blur things, not adding new arrangements.
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Where each changing line leads
Flip one line and it is a different hexagram. These are the six it becomes.
This page is for reference. To get a hexagram from six throws, cast your own.
The classical text is the Zhouyi, public domain, checked against a Wikisource transcript. The readings are ours. Daily hexagram