Time of divination: November 15, 2020.
Stem and branch time: VII A year, IV M month, IX L day (void: A and B).
The man and woman had already broken up. The woman was 30 years old, and the man was 35. The woman strongly wanted to reconcile, so she cast a hexagram to ask whether the two of them could get back together. Hexagram obtained: Jie to Kun.
Judgment:
The host line and the significator: the host line was clashed by the day and could not receive the compatibility structure.
In a relationship reading by a woman, the officials and ghosts line is taken as the significator. In this hexagram, the fifth-line corresponding line, officials and ghosts J metal, was active. It was undoubtedly the true significator.
The corresponding line J metal moved and transformed into officials and ghosts K metal. K metal and the host line E earth formed compatibility, because E and K are compatible. According to the facing/backing method or the compatibility method, this was originally an image favorable to reconciliation. However, the necessary condition for this image to become valid was that the host line had to be prosperous and supportive.
Looking back at the host line, which represented the woman herself, it was the wife and wealth E earth. In the M month, it was in rest and constraint. On the L day, it was directly clashed, because E and L clash. This formed a day clash. Because the host line was extremely weakened by this clash, it had no strength to receive the favorable compatibility structure. From the logic of the hexagram, this directly determined that reconciliation could not succeed.
The transformed hexagram: 47.Kun as a Six Compatibles hexagram meant long-term entrapment.
Although the transformed hexagram was 47.Kun, a Six Compatibles hexagram, Six Compatibles did not mean reconciliation here.
Kun means difficulty, hardship, and being unable to escape.
The cause and detailed image: the man already had another woman.
The officials and ghosts J metal, representing the man, moved and transformed into K metal.
It had already entered the hexagram and was present on the upper sixth line. Its position was closer to the fifth-line significator. Thus, it could directly generate the officials and ghosts J metal. This objectively showed that, in reality, there was already another woman beside the man, giving him support and companionship.
Feedback:
More than one year after the divination, in 2021, the woman reported that the two of them had indeed never reconciled. This fully matched the image of 47.Kun as a Six Compatibles hexagram, representing long-term emotional suffering without release, as well as the judgment that the host line was clashed by the day and had no power to turn the situation around.
Note: In relationship readings, 40.Jie is usually unfavorable, because “Jie (解)” in Chinese means to untie, release, dissolve, separate, or break apart a bond. When a relationship is “Jie,” it often means the bond becomes loosened, separated, and difficult to continue.
Similarly, Li is also often related to meanings such as leaving, separation, and parting. For example, in Chinese, words such as “leaving,” “separation,” and “divorce” are all related to li. This does not mean that these everyday words all directly come from a particular hexagram. Rather, it shows that many core words, images, and interpretive methods in the I Ching and related classical texts have deeply influenced Chinese language habits, cultural understanding, and ways of expression. Many Chinese characters are both everyday words and interpretive clues in the context of Yi studies.
I also have two similar cases of my own. One of them had the same hexagram pair as this woman’s case: 40.Jie transforming into 47.Kun. The other was 40.Jie transforming into Yu.
Usually, many people would think that a transformed Six Compatibles hexagram indicates a good result, and from the surface image of the hexagrams, both cases also seemed smooth. But in the end, both relationships came to nothing.
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