Hexagram 20: Contemplation風地觀 · Guān

• Upper trigram　Xùn, Wind: gentleness, penetration and steady influence.
• Lower trigram　Kūn, Earth: receptivity, support and going with the flow.

The Judgment

The hands are washed but the offering not yet made; full of sincerity, the onlookers look up in trust.

盥而不薦，有孚顒若。

Our plain English rendering, with the Zhouyi original

Reading

Wind moves over the earth: observation and reflection. Today suits seeing the whole picture first and observing others and yourself, without rushing to judge.

Something to do today

• Spend a few minutes looking at the whole of a matter before deciding the next step.

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.