The reference

The sixty-four hexagrams

Every situation the Book of Changes knows, one page each. Find yours by number, by the two trigrams that build it, or by the thread that runs through it.

By King Wen number

By trigram pair

Rows are the lower trigram, columns the upper. The diagonal holds the eight doubled trigrams.

below \ above	乾Heaven	震Thunder	坎Water	艮Mountain	坤Earth	巽Wind	離Fire	兌Lake
乾Heaven	1The Creative	34The Power of the Great	5Waiting	26The Taming Power of the Great	11Peace	9The Taming Power of the Small	14Possession in Great Measure	43Break-through
震Thunder	25Innocence	51The Arousing	3Difficulty at the Beginning	27Corners of the Mouth	24Return	42Increase	21Biting Through	17Following
坎Water	6Conflict	40Deliverance	29The Abysmal	4Youthful Folly	7The Army	59Dispersion	64Before Completion	47Oppression
艮Mountain	33Retreat	62Preponderance of the Small	39Obstruction	52Keeping Still, Mountain	15Modesty	53Development	56The Wanderer	31Influence
坤Earth	12Standstill	16Enthusiasm	8Holding Together	23Splitting Apart	2The Receptive	20Contemplation	35Progress	45Gathering Together
巽Wind	44Coming to Meet	32Duration	48The Well	18Work on what has been spoiled	46Pushing Upward	57The Gentle	50The Caldron	28Preponderance of the Great
離Fire	13Fellowship with Men	55Abundance	63After Completion	22Grace	36Darkening of the light	37The Family	30The Clinging, Fire	49Revolution
兌Lake	10Treading	54The Marrying Maiden	60Limitation	41Decrease	19Approach	61Inner Truth	38Opposition	58The Joyous, Lake

By theme

Crossing the Great Water05 06 13 15 18 26 27 42 59 61 64
Devotion01 02 08 09 14 16 23 24 25 42 45 46
Duration01 02 06 08 09 13 15 29 30 32 36 37 41 45 53 54 56 57
Emptiness08 15 31 54 61
Fellowship03 08 11 13 21 22 26 32 34 38 39 43 45 54 55 59 61 64
Furthering01 02 03 04 05 06 07 09 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 23 24 25 26 27 28 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 52 53 54 56 57 59 61 62 63 64
Good Fortune01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 21 22 24 25 26 27 28 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64
Having Somewhere to Go22 24 25 26 28 32 36 41 42 43 45 57 60
Humiliation03 04 11 12 13 18 20 21 22 28 29 31 32 35 37 40 44 45 47 57 60 64
Inner Truth03 05 06 07 08 09 11 14 15 16 17 20 22 29 34 35 37 38 41 42 45 46 49 54 58 61 62 63 64
Light and Darkness11 12 19 20 23 24 33 36 44 55 57
Misfortune03 06 07 08 09 10 13 16 17 19 21 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 34 41 42 43 44 47 48 49 50 51 53 54 55 56 57 58 60 61 62 63 64
Modesty04 10 11 14 15 46 50 54 55 56 57 60 62
Naturalness02 24 25 46 52 53 60
No Blame01 02 05 07 08 09 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 27 28 29 30 32 35 38 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 55 57 60 61 62 63 64
Nourishment02 05 06 18 25 26 27 37 48 50 62
Perseverance01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 25 26 27 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 39 40 41 42 44 45 46 47 49 50 52 53 54 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64
Remorse13 16 18 24 31 32 34 35 37 38 43 45 47 49 50 52 57 58 59 60 64
Return03 09 11 19 22 23 24 38 40 53
Sublime Success01 02
Supreme Success03 14 17 18 19 25 46 49
Tao01 26
The Firm and the Yielding02 07 08 13 21 22 27 36 37 44 51 53 58 61 62
The Great Man01 06 12 27 30 35 39 45 46 47 48 49 57
The Mean02 07 08 11 13 17 21 28 29 30 33 42 43 61
The Sage01 10 14 17 18 19 20 26 27 31 50 55 63
The Superior Man01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 22 23 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 60 61 62 63 64
The Time01 02 03 04 05 09 12 14 16 17 18 19 21 23 24 25 26 28 29 32 33 35 36 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 49 50 51 52 60 62 64
Waxing and Waning09 11 12 15 19 23 24 54 55 61 63 64
Wu Wei02 05 23 24 25 38 52 61

In the constellation

A fourth ordering, and the one the book itself keeps: not a list but a field, where each chapter sits among the ones it turns into. Eight taken across the sequence — every chapter draws its own on its page.

Sixty-four

01 The Creative

09 The Taming Power of the Small

01 The Creative 09 The Taming Power of the Small 17 Following 25 Innocence 33 Retreat 41 Decrease 49 Revolution 57 The Gentle