A modern reflection
A way to look at this moment.
Influence often begins with sensitivity rather than argument. Notice the quiet ways people and circumstances affect you, and how your own presence affects them. Connection deepens when you respond honestly instead of trying to produce a particular reaction.
Sit with this question
What is moving you, and how do you want to respond?
One small practice.
Listen for the feeling beneath someone’s words before answering.
The image & the structure.
This hexagram places lake above mountain. The lower trigram evokes a place to pause; the upper trigram evokes openness and exchange. Consider these as images to explore rather than instructions to follow.
The six lines are read from the bottom upward. A solid line is yang; a broken line is yin. In a coin reading, some lines may change and form a relating hexagram. A hexagram on its own does not specify which lines are changing.
Learn about changing lines →