I Ching · Hexagram 47
Kùn: Oppression
The lake has drained into the water below and is dry. Kun is a time of exhaustion and limits, when words carry little weight and inner strength matters most.
- Keywords
- Exhaustion, constraint, inner strength, endurance
- Upper trigram
- Lake (Dui)
- Lower trigram
- Water (Kan)
- Advice
- Save your energy, speak less, and hold on to what you believe.
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.