# Hexagram 32 · Héng (恒) · Endurance

> **GuaCard #32 (Steady)**: Steady commitment outlasts every storm. / 稳定的投入，能撑过每一场风暴。

This hexagram is about endurance. Lasting relationships and work depend on steady principles and daily commitment rather than bursts of enthusiasm. Keep a constant core while adapting to change, and you can go the distance.

_Editorial summary_

## Judgment

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.

## Line 1

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.

## Line 2

九二：悔亡。

The second line, undivided, shows all occasion for repentance disappearing.

## Line 3

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.

## Line 4

九四：田无禽。

The fourth line, undivided, shows a field where there is no game.

## Line 5

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.

## Line 6

上六：振恆，凶。

The topmost line, divided, shows its subject exciting himself to long continuance. There will be evil.

## Sources

- [周易 · 中文原文（Ruism Digital Library）](https://ruism.org/library/classic-of-changes/32#32.1)
- [James Legge, The Yî King (1882), Sacred Books of the East, XVI](https://ruism.org/library/classic-of-changes/32#32.1)