Heng · Duration

The meaning

What the name means Heng is lasting: keeping on.

The picture Thunder and wind moving together, the thunder stirring and the wind following, each completing the other without end.

The sense of the whole The whole hexagram is about lasting relationships and lasting ways of doing. Lasting is not standing still; it is keeping your direction while things change. What matters is continuing, not one great burst.

In plain words: what this hexagram says

What lasts is a direction that stays the same, day after day. Do not keep wanting a new face; keep up what is good.

The upper trigram is Thunder and the lower is Wind: Thunder above, Wind 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

亨，無咎，利貞，利有攸往。

The image

雷風，恆；君子以立不易方。

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. 初六浚恆，貞兇，無攸利。
2. 九二悔亡。
3. 九三不恆其德，或承之羞，貞吝。
4. 九四田無禽。
5. 六五恆其德，貞，婦人吉，夫子兇。
6. 上六振恆，兇。

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