I Ching, Yijing or Zhou Yi
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  Yi Jing, Oracle of the Moon

Hexagram 33

Dùn, Save your bacon

Dùn

Heaven
trigram Mountain

 

Gua Poem:
Retreat, expansion. Small profit from divination.

The great image says: The world has mountains: withdraw. The noble one distances himself from small people, without dislike and yet stern.

  Dùn: the ideogram and the story. (NEW) What does it mean for your question?
  This hexagram is complementary to hex.19, caring about others. Try to find the balance between those two, not too open, not too closed.

  Top 9: Fertile retreat. Nothing that does not bear fruit.
 Only in retreat the spirit can find its inner riches. Places full of noise and people are never spiritually rich places, but even there one can stay rich if one can stay aloof inside. Sometimes it is necessary to leave a situation in order to find yourself back.
(Changes to hex.31)  Mirror

  9 at 5: Praised retreat. Divination auspicious.
 Withdraw to the small area where you are good and where you know the way. No use doing something big and not being able to handle it.
Or: do something well, and after that neither you yourself nor anyone else will begrudge your time of leisure or even laziness.
(Changes to hex.56)   Mirror

  9 at 4: Loving retreat. Noble men: auspicious, small men: obstruction.
  Man loves beauty and people, many things attract his heart. To withdraw is not easy, but a grand mind will see it as enrichment, a small one as frustration. With a mind that is free from things, one can make one’s own free decisions and live one’s own life.
  (Changes to hex.53)   Mirror

  9 at 3: Attached retreat. There is disease and danger. To keep slaves and concubines is auspicious.
  In everything one does or meets, there are lower aspects. Stress, disappointment, misunderstanding, claims, wrong people. Do not fight them, just retreat from them, untie yourself, let them go and move on. If you have a set of values you can fall back on, it is easier, so make that base solid.
  (Changes to hex.12)   Mirror

  6 at 2: Shackle it using yellow ox hide. Under no circumstances will it be capable of getting loose.
   Hold on to your true self and to what you see as important. Then you will in all circumstances have the right reaction. Because it will not be formed by the circumstances but by your inner core. There is no law of being consistent towards the world, but to yourself there is.
(Changes to hex.44)  Mirror.

  Initial 6: At the tail of the retreat, danger. Do not proceed probing.
  You are retreating from danger or trouble, maybe already solved a big part, but don't think this is it. You are still too close to it, so be careful, don't act impulsively, reckon with everything that still can go wrong, even if it seems small and unimportant.
  (Changes to hex.13) Mirror

  No lines changing: There is not much you can or should do to change things. To try anyway might even be a bad idea. Either because this is how it is, or maybe now is not the right time, or your powers may not be big enough to bring about a better result.
  The Luoshu Trigram Oracle can tell you more. It often pays to look beneath the surface.

More about the lines of hex.33 and their characters

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When multiple lines change

last update: 04.10.2025

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