Hexagram 21 · King Wen sequence
Hexagram 21: Biting Through
噬嗑 · Shi He
A concrete obstruction must be dealt with directly before normal flow can resume.
Upper and lower trigrams
Reflection meaning
A concrete obstruction must be dealt with directly before normal flow can resume.
Identify the blockage precisely, apply proportionate consequences, and finish what has been left unresolved.
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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