Hexagram 57
The Gentle
Wind over Wind
The judgment
小亨。利有攸往。利见大人One current of air follows another and enters by the gaps, around the doors. Penetration this quiet takes repetition, and a soft push that stops at the first wall leaves nothing changed.
The image
Wind moves under wind and the two travel in the same direction. A thin line repeated wears what a blow cannot.
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
进退，利武人之贞
Just setting out, direction unsettled, advancing a step then pulling back, footing not yet firm. That wavering force, gathered and placed in hands that dare to decide and hold, is not spent for nothing.
- 九二Line 2
巽在床下，用史巫纷若，吉无咎
Bowing low and repeatedly asking others to mediate, the matter loosens slowly through deference.
Marked in the textauspiciousno blame
- 九三Line 3
频巽，吝
Yielding again and again until habit takes over, leaving no room and no clear sense of what was wanted.
Marked in the textnarrow going
- 六四Line 4
悔亡，田获三品
Close to the seat of decision, earlier misgivings scatter. Like a hunt with nets spread wide, the catch comes in three grades, great and small alike gathered in, and the outing does not come back empty.
Marked in the textregret clears
- 九五Line 5
贞吉悔亡，无不利。无初有终，先庚三日，后庚三日，吉
Slow to start, the pace settles as it goes, and the finish holds steadier than the beginning. Three days before acting, the day is chosen; three days after, things are gathered in once more, room left on both sides.
Marked in the textauspiciousregret clearsnothing works against itauspicious
- 上九Line 6
巽在床下，丧其资斧，贞凶
Retreating so far that the last foothold is lost, with no path left behind.
Marked in the textominous
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