Hexagram 6
Conflict
Heaven over Water
The judgment
有孚，窒，惕，中吉，终凶。利见大人，不利涉大川Your case is stronger, yet pursuing it will cost you. Stop while a settlement still costs less than a verdict.
The image
Heaven rises and water sinks. Two motions pulling apart sustain an argument with no winning end.
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
不永所事，小有言，终吉
Dropping the matter just as it starts invites a few words, but leaves strength unspent.
Marked in the textauspicious
- 九二Line 2
不克讼，归而逋，其邑人三百户无眚
Losing the contest, retreat to your own small ground, and those close stay untouched.
- 六三Line 3
食旧德，贞厉，终吉。或从王事，无成
Living off what was handed down, keeping to it, there is a taut cord inside all the while. Venture out to serve alongside others and no finished work is credited to one; what holds is still the old provision.
Marked in the textdangerauspicious
- 九四Line 4
不克讼，复即命渝，安贞吉
Turn back after the rebuff and revise the original aim; the footing grows steady.
Marked in the textauspicious
- 九五Line 5
讼，元吉
From the seat of authority, lay the matter open; the clash itself settles things.
Marked in the textauspicious
- 上九Line 6
或锡之鞶带，终朝三褫之
What was won gets granted then taken back several times in a day, never held.
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