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隨

№ 17 · beginning and impulse

Following

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

followingtransitionmeasure

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

随：元亨。利贞。无咎。

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

Following: originating and free passage. Constancy is beneficial. No blame.

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

zhouyi-17-guaci · sha256:75fa09b5480ef20ae23ad041dd1eeb5bdcd48ab692457d3e70206062c8c87e18

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

初九：官有渝，贞吉。出门交有功。

Initial Nine: office has change. Constancy is auspicious. Going out the gate and joining with others has achievement.

官 may mean office/function; the draft keeps the institutional ambiguity.

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ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: noKR1a0001 direct: yesvariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION

zhouyi-17-line-1 · sha256:9e838f399880859a2ba68b530706bf95059ab28316238c4fcaf0de338b33e1cd

Line 2 · 爻辭

六二：系小子，失丈夫。

Six in the Second: tied to the little boy, losing the mature man.

Frozen witness evidence records an ORTHOGRAPHIC_GRAPH variant. The draft follows the immutable primary acquisition; the gendered social terms are preserved as source language rather than modern advice.

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, ORTHOGRAPHIC_GRAPH, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION

zhouyi-17-line-2 · sha256:0fa5a759270fb51854d2ce267f1ea6eb49d668a9bb4dd1ec43e39632eb0b88f2

Line 3 · 爻辭

六三：系丈夫，失小子。随，有求得利，居贞。

Six in the Third: tied to the mature man, losing the little boy. Following: what is sought is gained; beneficial to dwell in constancy.

Frozen witness evidence records an ORTHOGRAPHIC_GRAPH variant. The draft follows the immutable primary acquisition; the gendered social terms are preserved as source language rather than modern advice.

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zhouyi-17-line-3 · sha256:a22f954121b770a586fdc50e527bed34c7aedcf4ae8a9528ac72da0bc3acc874

Line 4 · 爻辭

九四：随有获，贞凶。有孚在道，以明，何咎。

Nine in the Fourth: following and obtaining. Constancy: misfortune. There is trust on the way, with clarity. What blame?

隨有獲 and 有孚在道以明 are syntactically compressed. 'With clarity' is provisional for 以明; human review should check punctuation and the relation among trust, the Way, and illumination.

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zhouyi-17-line-4 · sha256:d333180bc3cb56ec6b715b893895ea6a14c0658325d11ed7dd6edcc02038a3d2

Line 5 · 爻辭

九五：孚于嘉，吉。

Nine in the Fifth: trust in what is good. Auspicious.

嘉 may mean excellent/fine rather than an abstract moral “good”; draft remains compact.

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zhouyi-17-line-5 · sha256:095a08581a1a70dafc631cf1cf137a69a30f6440281528aea1b62125d8ed865f

Line 6 · 爻辭

上六：拘系之，乃从维之。王用亨于西山。

Top Six: bound and tied to it, then further fastened. The king uses an offering at the Western Mountain.

亨 is sacrificial here; 西山 retains a cultic-geographic setting not modernized into metaphor.

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zhouyi-17-line-6 · sha256:58a9ec2d2eb2157b560daab65f44e62aaec80d2a7d385cef5cf91f11d00fa13e

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 following: 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 Following 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 Following 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, Following 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 “Following” 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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