Hexagram 17: Following澤雷隨 · Suí

• Upper trigram　Duì, Lake: joy, exchange and open conversation.
• Lower trigram　Zhèn, Thunder: arousal, beginnings and sudden change.

The Judgment

Supreme success through perseverance. No blame.

元亨利貞，无咎。

Our plain English rendering, with the Zhouyi original

Reading

Going with the times and adapting as things change. Today suits following a fitting rhythm and being willing to take good advice, while keeping your own principles.

Something to do today

• Try out one good suggestion from someone else today.

How a hexagram is cast

The three-coin method: toss three coins together, counting heads as 3 and tails as 2. The total, 6, 7, 8 or 9, gives one line; six tosses, recorded from the bottom up, make a hexagram. A 6 (old yin) or 9 (old yang) is a changing line, which turns this hexagram into another and shows where things are heading.