All hexagrams · Kan

Difficulty at the Beginning

Difficulty at the Beginning

hexagram palaceKanUpper trigramKanLower trigramZhenself lineSecondresponding lineFifth

Kan palace, second generation. Kan over Zhen.

The chart

Line six relations najia Line Self / resp.
Top sibling line 戊子水
Fifth officer line 戊戌土 resp.
Fourth parent line 戊申金
Third officer line 庚辰土
Second offspring line 庚寅木 self
Initial sibling line 庚子水

The six spirits, the void branches and the moving lines are not in this table — all three exist only from the moment of a casting.

hidden line

No wealth line appears among the six lines. It lies hidden under the Third line (戊午火), borrowed from The Abysmal Water, the hexagram that heads this palace.

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