Hexagram 38 of 64
睽 kuí
Opposition
离 (lí, Fire) above · 兑 (duì, Lake) below
The Judgment 卦辞
Fire moves up, the lake moves down — natural opposition. Do not force unity; work where small common interests exist, and subtle disagreements resolve themselves.
The Image 大象
Fire above, the lake below: opposition. The wise person shares sameness in nature while differing in standing.
The six lines 爻辞
Each line of 睽 has its own classical text. If a line in your cast is changing, its text is the heart of your reading.
Line 1 · 初九
Regret gone: the lost horse returns untended. Even meeting the hostile goes safely now.
「悔亡，丧马勿逐，自复。见恶人无咎」
Line 2 · 九二
Meeting your chief in a side lane — off the official path. No blame in the informal meeting.
「遇主于巷，无咎」
Line 3 · 六三
The cart dragged, the ox pulled the other way, the driver battered — a terrible start that still ends well.
「见舆曳，其牛掣，其人天且劓，无初有终」
Line 4 · 九四
Isolated by the estrangement — then meeting a great soul, trusting openly. Risky, and right.
「睽孤，遇元夫，交孚，厉无咎」
Line 5 · 六五
Regret gone: your own kin bite through the thick cut — going forward, what blame could there be?
「悔亡，厥宗噬肤，往何咎」
Line 6 · 上九
Alone, you see pigs in the mud, a cartload of ghosts — you raise your bow, then lower it. Not raiders: kin. Walk into the rain and it is good fortune.
「睽孤，见豕负涂，载鬼一车，先张之弧，后说之弧，匪寇婚媾，往遇雨则吉」
If you drew this in a reading
A pattern of tension and craft. This hexagram belongs to the large middle family of mixed patterns: it works, but only along its own grain. Read the Judgment closely — mixed hexagrams usually name the exact condition on which their promise depends.
In yes/no questions this hexagram reads as “not yet clear” — the answer hinges on timing and execution.
The trigrams give the flavor: 离 (Fire) above — clarity and clinging — insight, illumination, dependence on fuel — over 兑 (Lake) below — joyous openness — exchange, persuasion, pleasure shared. Where those two energies meet, 睽 is born.
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