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32 · union and gathering

Duration

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

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Zhouyi Core · 周易

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卦辭 · hexagram statement

恒:亨,无咎。利贞,利有攸往。

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

Duration: free passage; no blame. Constancy is beneficial. It is beneficial to have somewhere to go.

恒 and 贞 overlap semantically in English/Russian; the translation keeps them distinct as duration and constancy.

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Line 1 · 爻辭

初六:浚恒,贞凶,无攸利。

Initial Six: digging too deeply into duration. Constancy: misfortune. Nothing is beneficial.

浚 literally means deepen/dredge; the draft keeps the depth image.

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Line 2 · 爻辭

九二:悔亡。

Nine in the Second: regret vanishes.

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Line 3 · 爻辭

九三:不恒其德,或承之羞,贞吝。

Nine in the Third: not enduring in his virtue; perhaps he receives shame. Constancy: regret.

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Line 4 · 爻辭

九四:田无禽。

Nine in the Fourth: in the field, no game.

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Line 5 · 爻辭

六五:恒其德,贞,妇人吉,夫子凶。

Six in the Fifth: enduring in one’s virtue. Constancy. For a woman, auspicious; for a man, misfortune.

The gendered judgment is historical source language and is not presented as a modern normative rule.

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Line 6 · 爻辭

上六:振恒,凶。

Top Six: agitated duration. Misfortune.

振恒 is compact; “agitated duration” is provisional.

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Ten Wings · 十翼 · later commentary

Mapped commentary context

10/10 remote pinned · 0/10 local validated
彖傳下 · Tuan Commentary II象傳下 · Image Commentary II

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Ten Wings provenance / segmentation

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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.

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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 duration: 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 Duration 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 Duration 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, Duration 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 “Duration” 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.