Kui · Opposition

The meaning

What the name means Kui is turning away, not fitting: finding the other person hard to look at.

The picture Fire going up and lake going down, two opposite ways, further apart with every step.

The sense of the whole The whole hexagram is about disagreement. Do not force a fit when you differ: seek what you share in the big things and leave the small differences alone, and there is still a way to work together on small matters.

In plain words: what this hexagram says

You do not see eye to eye, each going your own way. Do not hurry to join; admit the difference first, and in small things you can still get along.

The upper trigram is Fire and the lower is Lake: Fire above, Lake 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

小事吉。

The image

上火下澤，睽；君子以同而異。

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. 初九悔亡，喪馬勿逐，自復；見惡人，無咎。
2. 九二遇主於巷，無咎。
3. 六三見輿曳，其牛掣，其人天且劓，無初有終。
4. 九四睽孤，遇元夫，交孚，厲無咎。
5. 六五悔亡，厥宗噬膚，往何咎？
6. 上九睽孤，見豕負塗，載鬼一車，先張之弧，後說之弧，匪寇婚媾，往遇雨則吉。

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