Hexagram 6
Conflict
Song · Clear boundaries
Overview
This phase invites patience and asks you to notice what is ready to mature without forcing the outcome.
Relationship
In relationships, Conflict points toward honest attention, softer assumptions, and communication that leaves space for another person's reality.
Career
For career questions, this pattern favors receptivity paired with practical next steps, especially where the path has felt emotionally crowded.
Finance
Generosity is appropriate, but only after your own foundation is secure.
Health
Your nervous system needs continuity, not crisis, to restore itself.
Advice
Move with trust and choose the next step that keeps your values visible.
Avoid
Avoid the temptation to control what can only be witnessed.
Reflection
What would remain if you let go of what is not yours to hold?
The Six Lines
Explore each line's meaning and interpretation.
初九
Chu Jiu
If one does not perpetuate the matter, there is a little gossip. In the end good fortune comes.
二九
Er Jiu
One cannot engage in conflict; one returns home and withdraws. The people of his town, three hundred households, remain free of guilt.
三九
San Jiu
To nourish oneself on ancient virtue gives perseverance. Danger. In the end good fortune comes. If you should enter the service of a king, seek no works.
四六
Si Liu
One cannot engage in conflict; one turns back and submits to destiny, changes oneself and finds peace in perseverance. Good fortune!
五九
Wu Jiu
To bring the conflict before him brings sublime good fortune.
上六
Shang Liu
Even if a leather belt is conferred on one, by the end of a morning it will be torn from them three times.