No Position Is Bad

Hexagram Qian (Humility): Reading a Hexagram's Character

Translated from the Chinese original by the AI Guanyin Volunteer. Scripture and classical text in 「」 is kept in the original.

Hexagrams · Seeing the whole
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地 山 一二三四五六
Don't rush to read the notes yet. This hexagram is called 「謙」 (Qian, Humility): earth on top, mountain below. Of its six lines, only one is solid. Before looking at the positions one by one, what feeling does the whole picture give you?

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