The Family
Judgment
— I Ching · classical
利女贞。
The household thrives when its women hold firmly to what is right.
Image
— Great Image
风自火出，家人，君子以言有物而行有恒。
Wind rises from fire: this is the image of the Family. A person of principle, seeing this, speaks with real substance and lives with real consistency.
Six Lines
— Bottom to top
Modern Readings
— Interdisciplinary
Career & Management
Rear-base building, internal HR system, founder equity contracts, ESOP design. Without a stable backbone, the front line cannot fight — speak the hard words early, build the firewall.
Psychology & Cognition
Cultivate self and household first (xiu shen qi jia). Tend to family-of-origin and partnership; in teams, clarify the core members' rights and duties.
Decision Guidance
Words with substance, ways with duration (yan you wu er xing you heng). Strict-but-warm beats lax-and-easy.
Integrated Reading
— Structure · timing · relations
The Family places The Gentle / Wind, Wood above The Clinging / Fire. Read the lower trigram as the emerging ground and the upper trigram as the field, pressure, or constraint it must answer. The core theme is Family · Internal order · Words with substance. Relations: the opposite hexagram shows the shadow/complement (Deliverance); the inverse shows the other-side view (Opposition); the nuclear hexagram shows the hidden internal mechanism (Before Completion).
Line Path
Line path: Initial Nine → Six in the second → Nine in the third → Six in the fourth → Nine in the fifth → Nine at the top. Read from bottom to top to see how the situation emerges, develops, crosses thresholds, and resolves.
Reflection Prompt
Am I acting from the proper position of The Family, or am I being pulled by seeking expansion before household order? What is the smallest reversible next move that respects the timing?
Western Parallels
— Cross-cultural
Confucian classic 'rectify oneself, regulate the family, govern the state' echoed in Western 'private virtue precedes public office'; Edwin Friedman on family systems theory applied to organizations; Stewart Friedman on 'total leadership' integrating home and work.
· English renderings and modern readings are original editorial writing, cross-checked against public-domain and classical commentary lineages.
· Hexagram Cast does not predict, score, schedule, ward, or recommend rituals.
· Modern inputs are reproducible; traditional casts can be audited line by line from the stored coin/yarrow trace.