Hexagram 13: Kindred
Statement: The kindred in the wilderness. Continue. Advance across the great river. Gain by a wise one's purity.
Top trigram: Heaven
Bottom trigram: Fire
Hexagram Number: 13
Hexagram Name: Kindred
Line 1 comment: The kindred at the gate. No fault.
Line 2 comment: The kindred in the ancestral temple. Remorse.
Line 3 comment: Armed and lying in ambush under the thicket. Looming above is their high mound. For three years, there is no rising.
Line 4 comment: Mounting their ramparts. Unable to conquer. Fortune.
Line 5 comment: The kindred first wail and yet later laugh: great armies are able to meet.
Line 6 comment: The kindred at the countryside sacrifice. No regrets.
The image Fire rises into heaven: kindred. The noble one groups and sorts all that must be done.