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№ 24 · union and gathering

Return

Return begins quietly: one line of light comes back from below.

returnsmall lightcycle

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

复：亨。出入无疾，朋来无咎。反复其道，七日来复，利有攸往。

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

Return: free passage. Going out and coming in without illness; companions come, no blame. Turning back and returning along the way, in seven days comes return. It is beneficial to have somewhere to go.

七日 is retained as the source’s temporal formula and not automatically converted into a modern seven-day forecast.

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

初九：不复远，无袛悔，元吉。

Initial Nine: returning before going far. No great regret. Great auspiciousness.

袛 is textually/graphically difficult; this draft follows the established “great regret” reading.

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Line 2 · 爻辭

六二：休复，吉。

Six in the Second: excellent return. Auspicious.

休 carries “good/fine” here, not necessarily “rest.”

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Line 3 · 爻辭

六三：频复，厉无咎。

Six in the Third: repeated return. Danger; no blame.

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Line 4 · 爻辭

六四：中行独复。

Six in the Fourth: walking in the midst, returning alone.

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Line 5 · 爻辭

六五：敦复，无悔。

Six in the Fifth: generous return. No regret.

敦 again carries thickness/sincerity; “full, sincere” is editorial.

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Line 6 · 爻辭

上六：迷复，凶，有灾眚。用行师，终有大败，以其国君，凶；至于十年，不克征。

Top Six: lost in return. Misfortune; there is disaster and calamity. If used to move an army, in the end there is a great defeat; for its ruler, misfortune. For ten years one cannot campaign.

This is historical divinatory-military language, not modern operational advice.

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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

After stillness, a small impulse returns toward self or work.

Advice

Support the small: one step, one conversation, one routine, one sign.

Caution

Return does not always mean a person returning; often it is your energy returning.

How to read lines

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

Reflection questions

  • • What returns quietly?
  • • How not to scare the small light?
  • • Am I returning to myself?

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 “Return” 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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