Meaning
Fire rises, water falls, and the two trigrams part. In the family reading they are the middle daughter and the youngest, who live under one roof and will marry into different houses. 睽 means to look askance or to be at odds, and the hexagram is the household of 37 turned upside down. The Judgment keeps a modest hope: in small matters there is still good success.
The Image draws an unexpectedly generous lesson. Where there is general agreement, the superior man still allows for difference: union does not require sameness. In our own reading, 睽 is about living with opposition, doing the small things that can still be done together, and keeping open the chance that a quarrel was a misreading.
The lines
The first line has lost its horses and is told not to chase them, because they come back of themselves; the second meets its lord by chance in a narrow lane. The third is the hexagram's worst moment, a cart dragged back and an ox held, a bad start that ends well. The fourth, alone in the estrangement, meets a good man; the fifth joins its kin as easily as biting into skin. The top line, alone, sees a pig covered in mud and "a carriage full of ghosts", in Legge's English, draws its bow, then lowers it: they are not raiders but suitors.
Within 睽 lies 既濟, hexagram 63; its pair is 家人, hexagram 37, and every line flipped gives 蹇, hexagram 39.
In the birth cast
The time cast arrives at 睽 when the year, month and day leave 3 on eight, which puts 離 fire above, and the same total with the hour added leaves 2, which puts 兌 lake below. Which line moves depends on what the whole total leaves on six, and each line turns the figure into a different hexagram:
- Line 1 (初九) moving: becomes 64 未濟 Wèi Jì, Not Yet Across
- Line 2 (九二) moving: becomes 21 噬嗑 Shì Kè, Closing the Jaws
- Line 3 (六三) moving: becomes 14 大有 Dà Yǒu, Great Possession
- Line 4 (九四) moving: becomes 41 損 Sǔn, Decrease
- Line 5 (六五) moving: becomes 10 履 Lǚ, Treading
- Line 6 (上九) moving: becomes 54 歸妹 Guī Mèi, The Younger Sister Weds
Lines 2 to 5 give the hexagram within, 63 既濟 Jì Jì, Already Across. Everyone born in the same lunar day and double hour has the same cast, so the figure describes a moment, not a person.
Correspondences
Each item with how it stands: “sourced” is in the work cited, “our construction” is EsoTerrier’s own, and “disputed” means the sources disagree.
- Trigram virtues (Shuogua, chapter 7)
- 兌 pleased, open below; 離 bright, attached above, in our English sourced
- Trigram family places (Shuogua)
- youngest daughter below, middle daughter above sourced
- Trigram body and animal images (Shuogua)
- mouth and sheep below; eyes and pheasant above sourced
- Trigram phases (a classical correspondence: the Plum Blossom text's table)
- Metal below, Fire above. The Han assignment of 梅花易數, book 1, also used by Jing Fang; not stated as such in the Zhouyi sourced
- Inverse and opposite
- Upside down: 37 家人 Jiā Rén, The Household; every line flipped: 39 蹇 Jiǎn, Obstruction sourced
- Human Design gate
- Gate 38, from 279.5° to 285.125° of the tropical zodiac on Ra Uru Hu's wheel (1987): a modern placing, not the I Ching's sourced
- Our English title
- Estrangement: EsoTerrier's own, from the sense of 睽 our construction
How the schools read it
- The Zhouyi, in Legge's translation (1882)
- “Khwei indicates that, (notwithstanding the condition of things which it denotes), in small matters there will (still) be good success.”
- The Image (大象), one of the Wings, in our paraphrase
- Fire above and a marsh below; the superior man, where there is general agreement, still admits diversity.
- The Plum Blossom method (Ming)
- A figure reached by numbers: 離 above when the year, month and day leave 3 on eight, 兌 below when the same total with the hour leaves 2.
- Human Design (Ra Uru Hu, 1987)
- Takes the number for its gate 38 and puts it on the zodiac; its own reading, which we do not quote.
- EsoTerrier
- Fire above and the lake below, moving apart: two who face away from each other; small things can still be done together, and what looked like an enemy may turn out to be a friend.
Claims about it
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Gate 38 of Human Design, at 279.5° to 285.125° of the zodiac, is where the I Ching itself places hexagram 38.
falseWhat the record shows: The wheel is Shao Yong's circle rotated by Ra Uru Hu in 1987 to 1989 so that hexagram 41 starts at 2° Aquarius. No Chinese source we found puts the hexagrams on degrees of the zodiac.
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Being born under 睽 Kuí fixes a person's character.
unverifiedWhat the record shows: A modern reading with no source in the tradition. The Zhouyi has no birth hexagram; the cast reads a figure, not a person, and everyone born in the same lunar day and double hour shares it.
