I Ching · Hexagram 2
Kūn: The Receptive
Six broken lines make Kun pure yin: the earth that receives, holds and lets things grow. Its strength is in following well, listening, and giving a situation the steady support it needs instead of pushing ahead.
- Keywords
- Receptivity, support, patience, groundedness
- Upper trigram
- Earth (Kun)
- Lower trigram
- Earth (Kun)
- Advice
- Let others or events take the lead for now, and put your care into what you can nurture.
Changing lines
When you cast this hexagram, any changing line is turning into its opposite: yang into yin, or yin into yang. Changing them gives a second hexagram that suggests where things are heading. Hexagram meanings are a starting point for reflection, not predictions.