31. Attraction · 咸 上六

Line 6 of hexagram 31

In practice

If you try to influence others or win their support with words alone and not with matching actions, your achievements will be modest.

The poetry

Contact at the jaws, the cheeks, the tongue.

上六:咸其輔,頰,舌。

象曰:咸其輔,頰,舌,滕口說也。

If this line moves, the hexagram becomes

33 Leaving Behind
If only this line moves →

The other lines

← Back to the hexagram