32 · Héng · Duration
巽 Wind below, 震 Thunder above
The JudgmentHăng 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.
Line 1The first SIX, 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.
Line 2The second NINE, undivided, shows all occasion for repentance disappearing.
Line 3The third NINE, 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.
Line 4The fourth NINE, undivided, shows a field where there is no game.
Line 5The fifth SIX, divided, shows its subject continuously maintaining the virtue indicated by it. In a wife this will be fortunate; in a husband, evil.
Line 6The topmost SIX, divided, shows its subject exciting himself to long continuance. There will be evil.
— James Legge, 1882
Text: James Legge's 1882 translation (public domain), lightly presented. Our own reading of each hexagram is being written.