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困

№ 47 · ordering forces

Oppression

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

exhaustiontransitionmeasure

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

困：亨，贞大人吉，无咎，有言不信。

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

Oppression: free passage. Constancy. For the great person, auspicious; no blame. Words are not trusted.

困 combines confinement, distress, and exhaustion; the product title is editorial and the Chinese remains visible.

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-47-guaci · sha256:f009f8f00e57360be46c360864c960bf33618f1c290d96e26abad151e89e6e59

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：臀困于株木，入于幽谷，三岁不觌。

Initial Six: the buttocks are oppressed by a tree stump. Entering a dark valley; for three years not seeing anyone.

株木 is a stump/tree image; no psychological symbolism is inserted.

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Line 2 · 爻辭

九二：困于酒食，朱绂方来，利用亨祀，征凶，无咎。

Nine in the Second: oppressed amid wine and food. The vermilion knee-covering is just coming. It is beneficial to use offerings and sacrifices. To set out is ominous; no blame.

朱绂 is a status garment; 亨祀 is sacrificial language. Both are kept historical.

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Line 3 · 爻辭

六三：困于石，据于蒺藜，入于其宫，不见其妻，凶。

Six in the Third: oppressed by stone, resting on thorny plants. Entering his palace, he does not see his wife. Misfortune.

蒺藜 has an explicit cross-witness graph variant in the frozen corpus; the translation stays generic as thorny plants.

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zhouyi-47-line-3 · sha256:8943d03dcc1762ab44459c5ff1535819c67f8f92ca4010608087d87990d13572

Line 4 · 爻辭

九四：来徐徐，困于金车，吝，有终。

Nine in the Fourth: coming slowly, slowly; oppressed by a metal carriage. Regret, yet there is an end.

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Line 5 · 爻辭

九五：劓刖，困于赤绂，乃徐有说，利用祭祀。

Nine in the Fifth: the nose is cut off and the feet are amputated; oppressed by the scarlet knee-covering. Then slowly there is release. It is beneficial to use sacrifices.

劓 and 刖 name ancient mutilating punishments; the final baseline states that historical violence directly instead of softening 刖 to merely “feet cut.” 说 is read as release/relief. Nothing here endorses punishment in modern use.

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zhouyi-47-line-5 · sha256:eacc359a2289d0d7c206802b7f00f0b548ae1ef0054375f5eaa67a9f1379d012

Line 6 · 爻辭

上六：困于葛藟，于臲卼，曰动悔。有悔，征吉。

Top Six: oppressed by creeping vines, in an unstable and precarious place. He says, “Movement brings regret.” There is regret; to set out is auspicious.

臲卼 is a rare reduplicative expression of instability; the draft expands it minimally.

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zhouyi-47-line-6 · sha256:4df5ec700e8e45344e1b33b045c7f358e9ae6bd97bc6af72511124f64117545e

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

The theme sits in the field of exhaustion: 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 Oppression 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 Oppression 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, Oppression 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 “Oppression” 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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