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謙

№ 15 · ordering forces

Modesty

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

modestytransitionmeasure

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

谦：亨，君子有终。

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

Modesty: free passage. The noble person has completion.

有终 is kept as “has completion” rather than moralized into guaranteed success.

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

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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：谦谦君子，用涉大川，吉。

Initial Six: modest, modest noble person. Use this to cross the great river. Auspicious.

The repetition 谦谦 is preserved emphatically.

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Line 2 · 爻辭

六二：鸣谦，贞吉。

Six in the Second: sounding modesty. Constancy is auspicious.

鸣谦 is image-rich and interpretively contested; the draft stays literal.

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Line 3 · 爻辭

九三：劳谦君子，有终吉。

Nine in the Third: laboring yet modest noble person. He has completion. Auspicious.

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Line 4 · 爻辭

六四：无不利，㧑谦。

Six in the Fourth: nothing is unfavorable. Displaying modesty.

㧑 is rare/variant-sensitive; “displaying” is provisional.

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Line 5 · 爻辭

六五：不富，以其邻，利用侵伐，无不利。

Six in the Fifth: not rich, together with the neighbors. It is beneficial to use invasion and attack. Nothing is unfavorable.

The martial wording is historical source text, not modern actionable advice.

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Line 6 · 爻辭

上六：鸣谦，利用行师，征邑国。

Top Six: sounding modesty. It is beneficial to move the army and campaign against one’s own city-state.

邑国 is a historical polity; no modern political analogy is implied.

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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 modesty: 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 Modesty 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 Modesty 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, Modesty 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 “Modesty” 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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