Hexagram 32
恆 Héng · Constancy
Legge: Hang
☳ Thunder (Zhèn) above ☴ Wind, wood (Xùn)
Scryway summary
Modern commentary written for Scryway. Not part of the classic text.
What lasts. Renewal within a steady, consistent course.
The judgment
Hang indicates successful progress and no error (in what it denotes). But the advantage will come from being firm and correct; and movement in any direction whatever will be advantageous.
The image
(The trigram representing) thunder and that for wind form Hang. The superior man, in accordance with this, stands firm, and does not change his method (of operation).
The lines, bottom to top
- Bottom line, broken
The first line, divided, shows its subject deeply (desirous) of long continuance. Even with firm correctness there will be evil; there will be no advantage in any way.
- Second line, solid
The second line, undivided, shows all occasion for repentance disappearing.
- Third line, solid
The third line, undivided, shows one who does not continuously maintain his virtue. There are those who will impute this to him as a disgrace. However firm he may be, there will be ground for regret.
- Fourth line, solid
The fourth line, undivided, shows a field where there is no game.
- Fifth line, broken
The fifth line, divided, shows its subject continuously maintaining the virtue indicated by it. In a wife this will be fortunate; in a husband, evil.
- Top line, broken
The topmost line, divided, shows its subject exciting himself to long continuance. There will be evil.
Quoted from James Legge (trans.), The Yi King, Sacred Books of the East vol. XVI, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1882. Public domain. The image is from Legge’s Appendix II. Words in parentheses are Legge’s additions.