The Gentle, Wind · Xun
The Gentle — the wind that penetrates by returning again and again.
The traditional reading
Hexagram 57 is the wind — subtle, penetrating, and persistent. It influences not by force but by repetition: it returns, softly, until it has shaped what is hard. Work by quiet consistency, obey the rules of the place you enter, and let clear decisions be made and carried out like the wind itself.
Structure of the hexagram
- Lower trigram: Wind (Xun) · Wood
- Upper trigram: Wind (Xun) · Wood
- House: Wind (Xun) · Wood
- Text in the original Chinese: 巽为风