Hexagram 10 · King Wen sequence

Hexagram 10: Treading

履 · Lu

conductcarerespect

The path is workable, but it requires awareness of position, consequence, and social boundaries.

Upper and lower trigrams

Upper: Heaven乾 · Qian · creative forceLower: Lake兌 · Dui · joyful exchange

Reflection meaning

The path is workable, but it requires awareness of position, consequence, and social boundaries.

Proceed carefully, stay courteous, and do not confuse confidence with entitlement.

If this hexagram appears in a changing reading

Changing lines mark the parts of the six-line figure that move from yin to yang or yang to yin. Those changes generate a second hexagram. Oracle Mirror presents the first hexagram as the current symbolic pattern and the transformed hexagram as a second lens on the direction of change; it does not treat the second figure as a guaranteed future event.

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