Tong Ren · Fellowship

The meaning

What the name means Tong Ren is being of one mind with others: people with the same aim gathering.

The picture Heaven above, fire below, the fire burning toward heaven, one direction, open and bright.

The sense of the whole The whole hexagram is about finding company in the open. Look for people whose direction matches yours and work frankly with them. Huddling only with the familiar makes the road narrower and narrower.

In plain words: what this hexagram says

Be with people who share your aim, working together in the open, and do not only huddle with the familiar.

The upper trigram is Heaven and the lower is Fire: Heaven above, Fire below. When you read it, first picture the two together as a scene, then set it against the original below. The plain words speak only of stance and do not foretell.

The judgement

同人於野，亨。利涉大川，利君子貞。

The image

天與火，同人；君子以類族辨物。

The six lines

From the bottom up, the first line is the lowest. When you cast this hexagram and a line is changing, read the matching one. The original is classical Chinese.

1. 初九同人於門，無咎。
2. 六二同人於宗，吝。
3. 九三伏戎於莽，升其高陵，三歲不興。
4. 九四乘其墉，弗克攻，吉。
5. 九五同人，先號咷而後笑，大師克相遇。
6. 上九同人於郊，無悔。

To learn how to read a hexagram, see "How to read a hexagram"; for changing lines, see "Changing lines and the resulting hexagram".