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Hexagram 47 / 64 · Stillness

Hexagram 47Oppression

Keep contact with what sustains you under pressure.

/ Kun
UPPER: LAKE
LOWER: WATER

A modern reflection

A way to look at this moment.

Limited resources or difficult conditions can narrow your sense of possibility. Acknowledge the constraint without reducing yourself to it. Choose a manageable action, seek appropriate support, and spend your energy where it can still have a real effect.

Sit with this question

What remains possible within your present limits?

One small practice.

Protect time for one basic need and one achievable task.

The image & the structure.

This hexagram places lake above water. The lower trigram evokes depth and passage; the upper trigram evokes openness and exchange. Consider these as images to explore rather than instructions to follow.

The six lines are read from the bottom upward. A solid line is yang; a broken line is yin. In a coin reading, some lines may change and form a relating hexagram. A hexagram on its own does not specify which lines are changing.

Learn about changing lines →
This page contains original modern reflections, not a translation of the I Ching’s Judgment, Image, or individual line texts. Names vary between translations. About our sources and approach.