Hexagram 61: Inner Truth風澤中孚 · Zhōng Fú

• Upper trigram　Xùn, Wind: gentleness, penetration and steady influence.
• Lower trigram　Duì, Lake: joy, exchange and open conversation.

The Judgment

Even pigs and fishes: good fortune. It furthers to cross the great water. Perseverance furthers.

豚魚吉，利涉大川，利貞。

Our plain English rendering, with the Zhouyi original

Reading

Inner sincerity. Today suits treating others honestly and doing what you say; trust is built through promises kept, one after another.

Something to do today

• Complete one small thing you promised someone.

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.