Xun · The Gentle

The meaning

What the name means Xun is wind, entering gently, seeping in.

The picture Wind on wind, getting into every crack, one gust after another.

The sense of the whole The whole hexagram is about entering softly. Do not force and do not clash; use a mild and repeated way to get an idea in. But have a mind of your own so that you are not blown about by the wind.

In plain words: what this hexagram says

Like the wind it gets in everywhere, by seeping and not by pushing. Say things softly, say them again, and things slowly move.

The upper trigram is Wind and the lower is Wind: Wind above, Wind below. When you read it, first picture the two together as a scene, then set it against the original below. The plain words speak only of stance and do not foretell.

The judgement

小亨，利有攸往，利見大人。

The image

隨風，巽；君子以申命行事。

The six lines

From the bottom up, the first line is the lowest. When you cast this hexagram and a line is changing, read the matching one. The original is classical Chinese.

1. 初六進退，利武人之貞。
2. 九二巽在床下，用史巫紛若，吉無咎。
3. 九三頻巽，吝。
4. 六四悔亡，田獲三品。
5. 九五貞吉悔亡，無不利。無初有終，先庚三日，後庚三日，吉。
6. 上九巽在床下，喪其資斧，貞兇。

To learn how to read a hexagram, see "How to read a hexagram"; for changing lines, see "Changing lines and the resulting hexagram".