Classic of Changes
下經 Xià jīng
恆 第三十二 Hexagram 32 · Héng
恆:亨,无咎。利貞,利有攸往。
Hăng indicates successful progress and no error (in what it denotes). But the advantage will come from being firm and correct; and movement in any direction whatever will be advantageous.
初六:浚恆,貞凶,无攸利。
The first line, divided, shows its subject deeply (desirous) of long continuance. Even with firm correctness there will be evil; there will be no advantage in any way.
九二:悔亡。
The second line, undivided, shows all occasion for repentance disappearing.
九三:不恆其德,或承之羞,貞吝。
The third line, undivided, shows one who does not continuously maintain his virtue. There are those who will impute this to him as a disgrace. However firm he may be, there will be ground for regret.
九四:田无禽。
The fourth line, undivided, shows a field where there is no game.
六五:恆其德,貞,婦人吉,夫子凶。
The fifth line, divided, shows its subject continuously maintaining the virtue indicated by it. In a wife this will be fortunate; in a husband, evil.
上六:振恆,凶。
The topmost line, divided, shows its subject exciting himself to long continuance. There will be evil.