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№ 8 · union and gathering

Holding Together

Hexagram Holding Together shows where the situation asks not for fear-based guessing, but for the exact rhythm of change.

uniontransitionmeasure

Zhouyi Core · 周易

Ancient source, separate from translation and interpretation

450/450 Zhouyi records have product-level record adjudication; 0/450 are academic VERIFIED. Translation and interpretation may not rewrite the Chinese source.

450/450 product adjudicated · OmenHall editorial review 450/450

卦辭 · hexagram statement

比：吉。原筮元永贞，无咎。不宁方来，后夫凶。

Translation · final OmenHall editorial review, not independent-human/academic verified

Holding Together: auspicious. Return to the divination: originating, enduring constancy. No blame. The unsettled regions come. The latecomer is unfortunate.

原筮 is difficult; the draft treats it as renewed/original divination without claiming the exact ritual nuance is settled.

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: notranslation VERIFIED: noreview: HIGH
Evidence / provenance
ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: yesKR1a0001 direct: novariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION

zhouyi-08-guaci · sha256:b0c90b03f27778f5efe352b1bd3991f6cf1d1783307f24e1aa89a31863af3f97

translation corpus: ICHING_ZHOUYI_EDITORIAL_TRANSLATION_CORPUS_V1_20260827 · final review: OMENHALL_FINAL_EDITORIAL_REVIEW_V1_20260828 · method: AI_ASSISTED_DIRECT_FROM_ADJUDICATED_CHINESE_20260827

Line 1 · 爻辭

初六：有孚，比之，无咎。有孚盈缶，终来有它，吉。

Initial Six: there is trust; hold together with it. No blame. Trust fills an earthen jar. In the end, something else comes. Auspicious.

缶 is retained as an earthen vessel; 有它 remains open rather than being over-explained.

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: notranslation VERIFIED: noreview: MEDIUM
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ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: yesKR1a0001 direct: yesvariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION

zhouyi-08-line-1 · sha256:65d3b46fa14a2056ad33876ac3935d6cf8f8acddea1a3d5e4e224dbaef671acc

Line 2 · 爻辭

六二：比之自内，贞吉。

Six in the Second: holding together from within. Constancy is auspicious.

Frozen witness evidence records an ORTHOGRAPHIC_GRAPH variant. The draft follows the immutable primary acquisition; human sign-off should confirm that no semantic distinction is being lost.

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: notranslation VERIFIED: noreview: MEDIUM
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ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: yesKR1a0001 direct: yesvariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION, ORTHOGRAPHIC_GRAPH

zhouyi-08-line-2 · sha256:52687b6755ba0e24ce5917389955dc72cabe0eda601191f6abd1bad9e17fcee4

Line 3 · 爻辭

六三：比之匪人。

Six in the Third: holding together with the wrong people.

匪人 is compact; the draft avoids moralizing beyond the relational warning in context.

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: notranslation VERIFIED: noreview: MEDIUM
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ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: yesKR1a0001 direct: yesvariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION

zhouyi-08-line-3 · sha256:362dd67db2efa9ded77c1c5eec155441256fc3ec476d0d600e9574f63af4839f

Line 4 · 爻辭

六四：外比之，贞吉。

Six in the Fourth: holding together outwardly. Constancy is auspicious.

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: notranslation VERIFIED: noreview: LOW
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ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: yesKR1a0001 direct: yesvariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION

zhouyi-08-line-4 · sha256:246280e18c2a4a41689839a78eb4fdf4c96e14a401126099bf01733c752adaab

Line 5 · 爻辭

九五：显比。王用三驱，失前禽，邑人不诫，吉。

Nine in the Fifth: manifest holding together. The king uses a three-sided drive and lets the game ahead escape. The people of the settlement are not warned. Auspicious.

三驱 is a royal hunting image with ritual-political connotations; the draft retains the hunt rather than collapsing it into a leadership slogan.

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: notranslation VERIFIED: noreview: HIGH
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ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: yesKR1a0001 direct: yesvariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION

zhouyi-08-line-5 · sha256:995ba728e6db45c340904495daa398d5d6ef8fc97551dac21a31e0ee5b944000

Line 6 · 爻辭

上六：比之无首，凶。

Top Six: holding together without a head. Misfortune.

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: notranslation VERIFIED: noreview: LOW
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ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: yesKR1a0001 direct: yesvariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION

zhouyi-08-line-6 · sha256:3eff8d55049efc02c7b12797c60659340dcbfeaa85b7e037be3ffc97a55636b7

Ten Wings · 十翼 · later commentary

Mapped commentary context

10/10 remote pinned · 0/10 local validated
彖傳上 · Tuan Commentary I象傳上 · Image Commentary I

Ten Wings: 10/10 segments have pinned remote source identity, while validated local text remains 0/10. This reading therefore exposes provenance/context mapping only and inserts no commentary text. Tuan/Xiang/Wenyan remain separate from Zhouyi Core; Xici/Shuogua/Xugua/Zagua are not presented as if they directly comment on this specific cast.

Ten Wings provenance / segmentation

registry: ICHING_TEN_WINGS_SOURCE_REGISTRY_V2_20260827

context map: ICHING_TEN_WINGS_CONTEXT_MAP_V1_20260827

Association of the Ten Wings with Confucius may be described as traditional attribution, not as an established modern historical fact.

Wikisource currently presents 彖 in one page and splits 象 as 大象/小象. Those web-page divisions are not adopted as OmenHall canonical wing boundaries. OmenHall keeps traditional 彖上/下 and 象上/下 by upper/lower hexagram canon, while 大象/小象 remain internal Xiang subtypes.

The attribution/ShareAlike engineering path is prepared for 10/10 segments, but the owner's license-path acceptance remains pending. Kanseki's published label is retained as “CC BY SA” without inventing an unstated version.

OmenHall completed its own AI-assisted editorial review of 450/450 source-bound RU/EN translations and applied 13 final corrections. This is a product editorial baseline, not independent human or academic verification: human sign-off 0/450, academic VERIFIED 0/450. Philological notes remain visible for 353/450 higher-risk passages.

Ten Wings: 10/10 remote source identities are pinned and canonical segmentation is mapped; validated local text 0/10. This is a separate later scholar/commentary layer. Until a local validated corpus exists it stays fail-closed and does not block the core Zhouyi content/logic freeze.

OmenHall modern interpretation must be labeled as modern application, never as translation or ancient commentary.

OmenHall modern interpretation · the section below is modern application. It is not a translation of the Zhouyi and it is not the Ten Wings.

Situation

The theme sits in the field of union: it is important to see what has ripened and what still needs form.

Advice

Take one clear step, name the boundary, and do not turn the sign into a guarantee of outcome.

Caution

I Ching does not replace legal, medical, financial, or psychological help.

How to read lines

  • • First read Holding Together as the state of the question, not as a promise of an event.
  • • If there are changing lines, they show not a second prediction, but the place where the situation has begun to move.
  • • The resulting hexagram is read as the direction of transformation, not as a guaranteed outcome.

A changing line does not cancel the main hexagram. It shows the seam through which the old form is already turning into a new one.

For day and decision

Daily I Ching

On a Holding Together day, look for one small step that fits the rhythm of the moment. Do not turn the whole day into a hexagram test.

I Ching for decisions

For a decision, Holding Together asks not “what will definitely happen,” but “which action is ripe now, and which is premature.”

Reflection questions

  • • Where is the movement here, and where is resistance?
  • • Which small step fits the timing?
  • • What must be accepted as fact?

Small practice

  • • Write the question in one line without naming another person if it can be phrased through your own choice.
  • • Mark what is already fact, what is fear, and what is still only assumption.
  • • After the reading, choose one step for the next 24 hours, not a plan for your entire fate.

Journal

  • • Where does the theme of “Holding Together” appear in my situation?
  • • What fact must I accept before asking for a sign?
  • • Which step is small enough not to break the balance?

Reading boundary

I Ching in OmenHall does not diagnose, replace professionals, or guarantee the future. It is a language of timing, choice, and proportion.

The best ending for an I Ching reading is to name one fact, one risk, one step, and one time when you will return to the question without compulsive repetition.

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