The 64 Hexagrams

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Mutual Response

Upper trigram: Lake · Lower trigram: Mountain

Judgment

Mutual response joins openness with restraint and preserves agency.

Image

Lake above Mountain; from bottom to top: yin, yin, yang, yang, yang, yin.

Separate reciprocity from impulse and verbal projection.

Six lines and their changes

  1. 1 / 6

    A stir in the toes is an impulse, not yet a decision.

    Move this line → Changing the Established Order
  2. 2 / 6

    An urge in the calves need not dictate an immediate move.

    Move this line → A Burden Too Great
  3. 3 / 6

    Following every movement of another loses your own rhythm.

    Move this line → Gathering around a Center
  4. 4 / 6

    Mutual response cannot be secured by restless calculation.

    Move this line → A Blocked Passage
  5. 5 / 6

    A limited bodily response leaves less room for overinterpretation.

    Move this line → Care in Small Matters
  6. 6 / 6

    Speech alone is not proof of mutual response.

    Move this line → A Timely Withdrawal

Library links use the structural middle-four transform. Meihua casting applies its separate Heaven/Earth exception to a moving figure.

Mutual Response · Upper trigram / Lower trigram?

Lake / Mountain. Lake above Mountain; from bottom to top: yin, yin, yang, yang, yang, yin.

Mutual Response · Move this line?

Change exactly one line, numbered from the bottom. Each of the six links below leads to the resulting figure.

Cast with this figure

Classical source · Traditional symbols offer a perspective for reflection, not a prediction of inevitable events.