䷠ Hexagram 33: Retiring

Judgment

RETREAT. Success. Advantage comes from firm correctness and attention to details.

Image

Mountain under heaven: the image of RETREAT. Thus, you should keep people at a distance by dignified bearing rather than hostility.

Description
Hexagram 33 is named 遯 (dùn), “Retiring”. Other variations include “retreat”, “yielding”, Withdrawal, Retiring, Wielding, Strategic Withdrawal, Inaccessibility, Disassociation from Inferior Forces. Its inner trigram is ☶ (艮 gèn) bound = (山) mountain, and its outer trigram is ☰ (乾 qián) force = (天) heaven.