Hexagram 24: Return地雷復 · Fù

• Upper trigram　Kūn, Earth: receptivity, support and going with the flow.
• Lower trigram　Zhèn, Thunder: arousal, beginnings and sudden change.

The Judgment

Success. Going out and coming in without harm; friends come without blame. To and fro goes the way; on the seventh day comes return. It furthers to go somewhere.

亨。出入无疾，朋來无咎。反復其道，七日來復，利有攸往。

Our plain English rendering, with the Zhouyi original

Reading

The first yang line returns: coming back and beginning again. Today suits returning to your usual rhythm and picking up a good habit that was interrupted.

Something to do today

• Restart a good habit that lapsed, even if only for five minutes.

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.