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蹇

№ 39 · ordering forces

Obstruction

An obstacle is not always an enemy; sometimes it shows where another route is needed.

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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

蹇：利西南，不利东北；利见大人，贞吉。

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

Obstruction: beneficial is the southwest; not beneficial the northeast. It is beneficial to see the great person. Constancy is auspicious.

Directional formulas remain historical divinatory geography and are not converted into literal modern travel advice.

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

zhouyi-39-guaci · sha256:2839167987946fba3bf0cde26535260abc5252e33ae49a70e99053804fff37d3

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：往蹇，来誉。

Initial Six: going brings obstruction; coming brings praise.

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Line 2 · 爻辭

六二：王臣蹇蹇，匪躬之故。

Six in the Second: the king’s servant meets obstruction upon obstruction, not for his own sake.

匪躬之故 is kept close and does not assume a moral motive beyond the wording.

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Line 3 · 爻辭

九三：往蹇来反。

Nine in the Third: going brings obstruction; coming brings return.

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Line 4 · 爻辭

六四：往蹇来连。

Six in the Fourth: going brings obstruction; coming brings connection.

连 can mean joining/connection; draft remains compact.

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Line 5 · 爻辭

九五：大蹇朋来。

Nine in the Fifth: great obstruction; companions come.

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Line 6 · 爻辭

上六：往蹇来硕，吉；利见大人。

Top Six: going brings obstruction; coming brings greatness. Auspicious. It is beneficial to see the great person.

硕 can mean great/full; “greatness” is deliberately close.

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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

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

Direct movement is difficult, but the path is not necessarily closed.

Advice

Seek detour, mentor, map, or temporary camp.

Caution

Do not hit the same wall and call it persistence.

How to read lines

  • • First read Obstruction 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 Obstruction 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, Obstruction asks not “what will definitely happen,” but “which action is ripe now, and which is premature.”

Reflection questions

  • • Is this an obstacle or a sign to change route?
  • • Who has walked a similar path?
  • • What can be bypassed?

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 “Obstruction” 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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