Hexagram 20
Contemplation
Wind over Earth
The judgment
盥而不荐，有孚颙若Wind moves over the earth and four soft lines look up from below. This is a season for seeing the whole shape; what you see will not change because you saw it.
The image
Wind passes over the ground and reaches the far corners without moving anything. Standing higher changes where you stand, and the field stays the field.
The six lines
Read from the bottom up. A line that moves is read here, and read again in the hexagram it becomes.
- 初六Line 1
童观，小人无咎，君子吝
Copying the motions before knowing the rules—watching the bustle with no footing underneath.
Marked in the textno blamenarrow going
- 六二Line 2
窥观，利女贞
A narrow view through the crack of the door; staying inside that crack is the only footing available here.
- 六三Line 3
观我生，进退
Seeing how one's own path was made, then stalling at the fork between stepping forward and pulling back.
- 六四Line 4
观国之光，利用宾于王
The whole court is now visible from the guest's seat; seeing it whole is what not being in the fight buys.
- 九五Line 5
观我生，君子无咎
Taking stock of one's own record from the seat of authority, the gaze falls on oneself.
Marked in the textno blame
- 上九Line 6
观其生，君子无咎
Reading the grain of another's whole course, past the end, left only with the observer's place.
Marked in the textno blame
Where each changing line leads
Flip one line and it is a different hexagram. These are the six it becomes.
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The classical text is the Zhouyi, public domain, checked against a Wikisource transcript. The readings are ours. Daily hexagram