I Ching Oracle Lookup - Hexagram 6: Conflict

Yin-Yang symbol

Welcome to Hexagram 6, Conflict. The table below maps every combination of changing lines to its resulting hexagram — 63 transformations plus the unchanging reading. The notation reads from the bottom line upward: 6.1.5 means Hexagram 6 with lines 1 and 5 changing.

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6
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6.1
10		 ䷅
6.2
12		 ䷅
6.3
44		 ䷅
6.4
59		 ䷅
6.5
64		 ䷅
6.6
47		 ䷅
6.1.2
25
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6.1.3
1		 ䷅
6.1.4
61		 ䷅
6.1.5
38		 ䷅
6.1.6
58		 ䷅
6.2.3
33		 ䷅
6.2.4
20		 ䷅
6.2.5
35		 ䷅
6.2.6
45
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6.3.4
57		 ䷅
6.3.5
50		 ䷅
6.3.6
28		 ䷅
6.4.5
4		 ䷅
6.4.6
29		 ䷅
6.5.6
40		 ䷅
6.1.2.3
13		 ䷅
6.1.2.4
42
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6.1.2.5
21		 ䷅
6.1.2.6
17		 ䷅
6.1.3.4
9		 ䷅
6.1.3.5
14		 ䷅
6.1.3.6
43		 ䷅
6.1.4.5
41		 ䷅
6.1.4.6
60		 ䷅
6.1.5.6
54
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6.2.3.4
53		 ䷅
6.2.3.5
56		 ䷅
6.2.3.6
31		 ䷅
6.2.4.5
23		 ䷅
6.2.4.6
8		 ䷅
6.2.5.6
16		 ䷅
6.3.4.5
18		 ䷅
6.3.4.6
48
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6.3.5.6
32		 ䷅
6.4.5.6
7		 ䷅
6.1.2.3.4
37		 ䷅
6.1.2.3.5
30		 ䷅
6.1.2.3.6
49		 ䷅
6.1.2.4.5
27		 ䷅
6.1.2.4.6
3		 ䷅
6.1.2.5.6
51
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6.1.3.4.5
26		 ䷅
6.1.3.4.6
5		 ䷅
6.1.3.5.6
34		 ䷅
6.1.4.5.6
19		 ䷅
6.2.3.4.5
52		 ䷅
6.2.3.4.6
39		 ䷅
6.2.3.5.6
62		 ䷅
6.2.4.5.6
2
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6.3.4.5.6
46		 ䷅
6.1.2.3.4.5
22		 ䷅
6.1.2.3.4.6
63		 ䷅
6.1.2.3.5.6
55		 ䷅
6.1.2.4.5.6
24		 ䷅
6.1.3.4.5.6
11		 ䷅
6.2.3.4.5.6
15		 ䷅
6.1.2.3.4.5.6
36

About the Transformations of Hexagram 6

Hexagram 6, Conflict (訟 Sòng), places Water in the lower trigram and Heaven in the upper. The configuration thus joins depth at the base to continuous strength above, with the two trigram patterns occupying clearly separated line fields. Movement in the lower three lines changes Water's structure; movement in the upper three changes Heaven's. Transformations crossing the midpoint revise both components and their opposition at once.

Within the table, a changing line always inverts its polarity, and the altered pattern resolves into a second hexagram after all designated inversions are applied. Six rows show the single-line outcomes, while fifty-seven cover every combination of two through six moving lines. The remaining entry is the unchanging reading: the original pattern is retained, and the Judgment of Hexagram 6 alone governs.

The six-line transformation replaces every yin line with yang and every yang line with yin, producing the full complement, Hexagram 36, Obscured Light. Conflict's King Wen partner is Hexagram 5, Waiting (Nourishment), reached not by that polarity reversal but by inversion. Rotation turns Hexagram 6 upside down into Hexagram 5, making their neighboring relation an exchange of vertical orientation; the all-line complement belongs to a separate structural axis.

For the full Judgment, Image, and line texts, see Hexagram 6: Conflict →