Judgment
— I Ching · classical
亨。利用狱。
Biting through has success. It furthers one to let justice be administered.
Image
— Great Image
雷电，噬嗑，先王以明罚敕法。
Thunder and lightning: the image of biting through. Thus the kings of old made firm the laws through clearly defined penalties.
Six Lines
— Bottom to top
Initial Nine · 初九
⚊ yang
屦校灭趾，无咎。
His feet are fastened in the stocks, his toes disappear. No blame.
Small punishment at the first offense; minor pain prevents major guilt.
Six in the second · 六二
⚋ yin
噬肤灭鼻，无咎。
Bites through tender meat — the nose disappears. No blame.
Easy target dispatched, perhaps with some excess; still no blame given the context.
Six in the third · 六三
⚋ yin
噬腊肉，遇毒，小吝，无咎。
Bites on old dried meat and strikes on something poisonous. Small humiliation. No blame.
Tackling entrenched legacy issues — resistance and toxicity emerge. Small disgrace, no overall blame.
Nine in the fourth · 九四
⚊ yang
噬干胏，得金矢，利艰贞，吉。
Bites on dried gristly meat. Receives metal arrows. It furthers one to be mindful of difficulties and to be steadfast. Good fortune.
Hard cases require steely, straight method (metal arrows = the just principle). Persistence yields fortune.
Six in the fifth · 六五
⚋ yin
噬干肉，得黄金，贞厉，无咎。
Bites on dried lean meat. Receives yellow gold. Steadfastness with awareness of danger. No blame.
Adjudication from a position of moderation; the golden middle yields no blame, even under risk.
Nine at the top · 上九
⚊ yang
何校灭耳，凶。
His neck is fastened in the wooden cangue, so that his ears disappear. Misfortune.
Hardened offender, deaf to all warning — catastrophic ruin.
Modern Readings
— Interdisciplinary
Career & Management
Removing toxic actors, hard-line collection on bad debts, breaking monopolies. No sentimentality — apply rules with full force.
Psychology & Cognition
On the bottleneck issue, summon the 'tenacity that does not let go'. Remove what blocks the bite.
Decision Guidance
Small punishment at the first transgression (line 1) prevents the irredeemable ruin (line 6). Clarify the law and apply it.
Western Parallels
— Cross-cultural
James Q. Wilson's 'broken windows' theory; behavioral economics on swift, certain, small punishment (Mark Kleiman's 'When Brute Force Fails'); the legal maxim 'justice delayed is justice denied'; Robespierre's terror as the cautionary opposite.
· All texts here come from public-domain editions of the I Ching and supporting commentary.
· Anygua does not predict, score, schedule, ward, or recommend rituals.
· The same input via the same method will always reproduce the same hexagram — verifiable below.