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Hexagram 57 / 64 · Practice

Hexagram 57The Gentle Wind

Gentle persistence can reach where force cannot.

/ Xun
UPPER: WIND
LOWER: WIND

A modern reflection

A way to look at this moment.

A small, well-directed influence can work through repetition. Make your intention clear and let your actions support it consistently. Gentleness remains effective when it includes direction; otherwise it can drift into endless adjustment without movement.

Sit with this question

What message or habit needs quiet consistency?

One small practice.

Repeat one constructive action without increasing its intensity.

The image & the structure.

This hexagram places wind above wind. The lower trigram evokes gentle influence; the upper trigram evokes gentle influence. 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 →
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