The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 57

What does I Ching hexagram 57, Wind, mean?

The judgment

巽：小亨。利有攸往。利見大人。Wind: small success. It pays to set out and to see a great person.Zhou Yi 周易, 巽, judgment. Source

The image

隨風，巽；君子以申命行事。Wind follows wind. The noble person repeats the order and carries out the work.Zhou Yi 周易, 巽, image. Source

The six lines

Read from the bottom up. In a cast, only the lines that move are read, and they turn the hexagram into another one. Here they are in the original; a reading translates the moving lines and reads them for the question asked.

1. First line初六：進退，利武人之貞。
2. Second line九二：巽在牀下，用史巫紛若，吉无咎。
3. Third line九三：頻巽，吝。
4. Fourth line六四：悔亡，田獲三品。
5. Fifth line九五：貞吉悔亡，无不利。无初有終，先庚三日，後庚三日，吉。
6. Top lineLeft out: this line speaks of a subject this site doesn't read.

The Chinese is the received text of the Zhou Yi; the English is ours. Lines and images that speak of punishments, prisons, illness or money are left out. For entertainment and self-reflection.

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