Hexagram 32 of 64
恒 héng
Duration
震 (zhèn, Thunder) above · 巽 (xùn, Wind) below
The Judgment 卦辞
What lasts, lasts through movement — thunder and wind travel together without stopping. Hold your course steadily, keep your role, and let constancy itself be the strategy.
The Image 大象
Thunder and wind: duration. The wise person stands firm and does not change their direction.
The six lines 爻辞
Each line of 恒 has its own classical text. If a line in your cast is changing, its text is the heart of your reading.
Line 1 · 初六
Digging for permanence too deep, too fast. Demanding depth immediately — misfortune.
「浚恒，贞凶，无攸利」
Line 2 · 九二
Regret disappears. Hold steady and it fades.
「悔亡」
Line 3 · 九三
Character that will not hold constant — sooner or later, shame. Watch your consistency.
「不恒其德，或承之羞，贞吝」
Line 4 · 九四
Hunting in a field with no game. Effort in the wrong place yields nothing — forever.
「田无禽」
Line 5 · 六五
Constancy by submission: fine for one role, fatal for another. Whose constancy is it?
「恒其德，贞，妇人吉，夫子凶」
Line 6 · 上六
Permanence shaken at the top — restlessness in what should endure. Misfortune.
「振恒，凶」
If you drew this in a reading
A favorable pattern. Among the sixty-four patterns, this one belongs to the favorable family: its core movement supports what you would do with it. Favorable does not mean automatic — the hexagram still asks you to hold up your end with steadiness and good faith.
In yes/no questions this hexagram leans yes — the pattern supports proceeding.
The trigrams give the flavor: 震 (Thunder) above — arousing shock — movement, initiative, sudden change — over 巽 (Wind) below — gentle penetration — gradual influence, flexibility, patience. Where those two energies meet, 恒 is born.
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