Hexagram 32 for love
Hexagram 32 Constancy in love and relationships
Heng follows Xian in the sequence: after attraction, duration. Thunder above and wind below move together without ceasing, eldest son over eldest daughter: the received image of a lasting marriage. The judgment promises success and no blame to what is steady, and the Tuan explains that lasting is not standing still: 'when it ends, it begins again'. The lines test this. Demanding depth too early at line one, the inconstancy of line three, the agitation of the top line all break duration from inside; the quiet centre of line two keeps it.
For a question about love the hexagram affirms a bond meant to last and asks what kind of constancy you are offering. The fifth line is the hinge: loyalty that follows is right in one role and wrong in another, so decide whether this moment asks you to support or to lead. A changing line in the lower trigram is about the pace at which commitment is built; one in the upper trigram about whether your persistence is placed well, held rightly, or merely agitated.
The hexagram in brief
Thunder and wind moving together without end: the lasting. Success and no blame for persevering in the right way; constancy is not standing still but moving reliably.
Keep your direction and your commitments; change your methods, not your principles.
The judgment
恆：亨，无咎，利貞，利有攸往。Hăng indicates successful progress and no error (in what it denotes). But the advantage will come from being firm and correct; and movement in any direction whatever will be advantageous.
Which line changed?
A changing line sharpens the answer. Each line of 恆 Constancy has its own page:
- 初六Six at the beginningdigging too deep · too much too soon · the start
- 九二Nine in the second placeregret vanishes · long in the centre · steady despite the place
- 九三Nine in the third placeinconstant · shame follows · nowhere welcome
- 九四Nine in the fourth placeno game in the field · wrong place · persistence wasted
- 六五Six in the fifth placeconstant in virtue · to follow one · to decide for oneself
- 上六Six at the topagitated constancy · shaking at the top · no achievement
The same hexagram for
Questions
- Is hexagram 32, Constancy, a good sign for love?
- Heng follows Xian in the sequence: after attraction, duration. Thunder above and wind below move together without ceasing, eldest son over eldest daughter: the received image of a lasting marriage. The judgment promises success and no blame to what is steady, and the Tuan explains that lasting is not standing still: 'when it ends, it begins again'. The lines test this. Demanding depth too early at line one, the inconstancy of line three, the agitation of the top line all break duration from inside; the quiet centre of line two keeps it.
- What does Hexagram 32, 恆 Constancy, mean?
- Thunder and wind moving together without end: the lasting. Success and no blame for persevering in the right way; constancy is not standing still but moving reliably.
Chinese text: the received Zhouyi (Wuyingdian lineage). English: James Legge, The Yî King, Sacred Books of the East XVI, 1882 (public domain).