Hexagram 37 · Lower canon
Jia Ren · The Family
Put the closest bonds in their place.
The figure
- Number
- 37 (Lower canon)
- Upper trigram
- Wind (Xun)
- Lower trigram
- Fire (Li)
- Keywords
- family · order · closeness
- Reversed hexagram
- Xie · Deliverance
- Inverted hexagram
- Kui · Opposition
The meaning
What the name means Jia Ren is the family, matters of the home.
The picture Wind coming out of fire: where the fire is warm the wind rises, from inside to outside, from near to far.
The sense of the whole The whole hexagram is about starting at home. Put the relationships at home and with those nearest in order, each keeping their place, with words that carry weight and deeds that have order, and what is outside follows.
In plain words: what this hexagram says
The people nearest you often matter most. Set the home and close ties in order, each in their place.
The upper trigram is Wind and the lower is Fire: Wind 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
利女貞。
The image
風自火出，家人；君子以言有物而行有恆。
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.
- 初九閒有家，悔亡。
- 六二無攸遂，在中饋，貞吉。
- 九三家人嗃嗃，悔厲吉；婦子嘻嘻，終吝。
- 六四富家，大吉。
- 九五王假有家，勿恤吉。
- 上九有孚威如，終吉。
To learn how to read a hexagram, see "How to read a hexagram"; for changing lines, see "Changing lines and the resulting hexagram".