Hexagram 5 · King Wen sequence
Hexagram 5: Waiting
需 · Xu
Conditions are still forming, so preparation matters more than forcing an early result.
Upper and lower trigrams
Reflection meaning
Conditions are still forming, so preparation matters more than forcing an early result.
Use the pause to strengthen resources and act when the opening is genuinely there.
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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