Hexagram 7: The Army地水師 · Shī

• Upper trigram　Kūn, Earth: receptivity, support and going with the flow.
• Lower trigram　Kǎn, Water: danger, flow and keeping faith through difficulty.

The Judgment

Perseverance, under an experienced leader, brings good fortune and no blame.

貞，丈人吉，无咎。

Our plain English rendering, with the Zhouyi original

Reading

Disciplined team action. Today suits confirming goals and roles and letting experienced people lead; many working as one is steadier than going it alone.

Something to do today

• Confirm today's division of work and who is responsible with the people you work with.

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.