Skip to content
OmenHall
Answer
☰
OmenHall
EN
РусскийEnglish

Navigation

Change & Casting Hall

I Ching

New castquestion, six lines, scroll64 hexagramschange dictionary

艮

№ 52 · learning and not-knowing

Keeping Still

The mountain does not rush to answer. It shows where movement must stop to see form.

mountainstillnesslimit of motion

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

艮：艮其背，不获其身，行其庭，不见其人，无咎。

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

Keeping Still: keeping the back still, one does not obtain the body. Walking in the courtyard, one does not see the people. No blame.

艮 is a stopping/stilling verb as well as the hexagram name. The unusual body grammar is preserved rather than harmonized into later meditation doctrine.

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

zhouyi-52-guaci · sha256:79e8ecb45dd30773bc419f4057ddbd85a007fc239da32793796a709b749530b7

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：艮其趾，无咎，利永贞。

Initial Six: keeping the toes still. No blame. Lasting constancy is beneficial.

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: notranslation VERIFIED: noreview: LOW
Show evidence
ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: noKR1a0001 direct: yesvariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION

zhouyi-52-line-1 · sha256:e3659edcc8549df726c87381598b5c7594b1efa6c9b29ba03804747b98072c94

Line 2 · 爻辭

六二：艮其腓，不拯其随，其心不快。

Six in the Second: keeping the calves still. He cannot rescue what follows him; his heart is not joyful.

其随 is relationally ambiguous; the draft leaves the follower/reference open.

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: notranslation VERIFIED: noreview: HIGH
Show evidence
ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: noKR1a0001 direct: yesvariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION

zhouyi-52-line-2 · sha256:ed91c18f69cda76af634c2122eec2973b978a35403a7e958f02f493a9c79de7a

Line 3 · 爻辭

九三：艮其限，列其夤，厉熏心。

Nine in the Third: keeping the waist still, splitting the muscles along the spine. Danger scorches the heart.

限, 夤, and 熏 are anatomically/textually difficult; this bodily rendering is deliberately provisional.

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: notranslation VERIFIED: noreview: HIGH
Show evidence
ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: noKR1a0001 direct: yesvariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION, ORTHOGRAPHIC_GRAPH

zhouyi-52-line-3 · sha256:4ce2b36e96b76fadf0d83987158092e5920027cb30b155c61d53bd419b8cbd41

Line 4 · 爻辭

六四：艮其身，无咎。

Six in the Fourth: keeping the body still. No blame.

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: notranslation VERIFIED: noreview: LOW
Show evidence
ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: noKR1a0001 direct: yesvariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION

zhouyi-52-line-4 · sha256:8847469ecb078768ffafd889f3e9e523ab7fe633827c618562d4dacb3978eac9

Line 5 · 爻辭

六五：艮其辅，言有序，悔亡。

Six in the Fifth: keeping the jaws still. Speech has order. Regret vanishes.

辅 can denote jaw/cheek supports; “jaws” follows the bodily sequence.

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: notranslation VERIFIED: noreview: MEDIUM
Show evidence
ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: noKR1a0001 direct: yesvariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION

zhouyi-52-line-5 · sha256:709d615b9d0338c96ae9fafa4982f30cb7eff5b9347b42d2e9a60e9616c6d10b

Line 6 · 爻辭

上九：敦艮，吉。

Top Nine: generous stillness. Auspicious.

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

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: notranslation VERIFIED: noreview: MEDIUM
Show evidence
ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: noKR1a0001 direct: yesvariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION

zhouyi-52-line-6 · sha256:927b2447e7c953c884fa03e634d96f7e46b7a431c5d8d5c6548a289544ce2093

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

Too much movement, analysis, or reaction. A place of stillness is needed.

Advice

Stop with the body, not only thought. Do not answer from first impulse.

Caution

Stillness should not be flight from necessary action.

How to read lines

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

Reflection questions

  • • What must stop moving?
  • • Where does my body know more than my mind?
  • • Which boundary is useful?

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 “Keeping Still” 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.

All hexagramsChanging linesI Ching hall