Hexagram 32
Duration
恆
Upper
Thunder · 震
the arousing, movement
Lower
Wind · 巽
the gentle, penetrating
Contemporary judgment
Duration. What endures is not what is loudest or strongest at a given moment, but what is most consistently itself. The mountain that gives life to the valley does so because it stays where it is, day after day. Return each day to the same true direction, and the effect accumulates into something unshakable.
Image
Thunder and wind, moving together without exhausting themselves. The superior person stands firm and does not change direction.
Counsel
Choose commitments you can actually keep, and then keep them. Do not let novelty distract you from the long work. The gains here are cumulative and usually invisible in the short run. Trust the process, and return tomorrow to what you did today.
The six lines
Numbered from the bottom upward; displayed here from first to sixth.
Line 1
A six at the beginning means: To seek duration too quickly brings misfortune persistently. Nothing that would further.
Line 2
A nine in the second place means: Remorse vanishes.
Line 3
A nine in the third place means: Whoever does not give duration to their character will be offered disgrace. Persistent humiliation.
Line 4
A nine in the fourth place means: There is no game in the field.
Line 5
A six in the fifth place means: Giving duration to one's character through perseverance, this is good fortune for a woman, misfortune for a man.
Line 6
A six at the top means: Restlessness as a lasting condition brings misfortune.
Contemporary sections are original app interpretations. Line text comes from the CC0 translation in jesshewitt/i-ching.