Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind巽為風 · Xùn

• Upper trigram　Xùn, Wind: gentleness, penetration and steady influence.
• Lower trigram　Xùn, Wind: gentleness, penetration and steady influence.

The Judgment

Success in small matters. It furthers to go somewhere. It furthers to see a wise person.

小亨，利有攸往，利見大人。

Our plain English rendering, with the Zhouyi original

Reading

The wind gets in everywhere: gentle, persistent influence. Today suits communicating in a mild, repeated way and moving things forward little by little.

Something to do today

• Gently remind someone once more about something not yet done.

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.