Oppression · Ze Shui Kun
Oppression — the exhausted one who learns that words carry only so far.
The traditional reading
Hexagram 47 is the exhaustion of being pressed — resources spent, options narrowed, speech failing. Its counsel is to accept the restriction without panic and to save your strength for the real task: keeping your integrity intact. Great people in confinement still refine their character; that is what oppression is for.
Structure of the hexagram
- Lower trigram: Water (Kan) · Water
- Upper trigram: Lake (Dui) · Metal
- House: Lake (Dui) · Metal
- Text in the original Chinese: 泽水困