Okay, so I’ve been messing around with the I Ching lately, and today I decided to focus on Hexagram 57, Xun (The Gentle, The Penetrating, Wind/Wood). I’m no expert, just exploring, so this is my total newbie take on it.
Getting Started
First, I grabbed my usual tools – my three coins and my notebook. I’ve got this little ritual going where I try to clear my head a bit before I start. It’s nothing fancy, just taking a few deep breaths and trying to focus on the question I’m pondering.
Today, I was feeling a little stuck on a project, so my question was pretty broad: “What’s the best way to move forward with this?”
The Coin Tosses
Then came the coin tosses. Six times, I flipped those coins, jotted down the results (heads or tails), and figured out if each line was yin (broken) or yang (solid). It’s kind of a meditative process, actually.
- First Toss: Heads, Heads, Tails.
- Second Toss:Heads, Heads,Tails.
- Third Toss:Heads, Heads, Heads.
- Fourth Toss: Heads,Heads,Tails.
- Fifth Toss: Heads, Heads,Tails.
- Sixth Toss: Heads, Heads,Tails.
Building the Hexagram
After the tosses, I drew out the * 57 is made up of two trigrams that are the same: both are Xun (Wind over Wind). It’s basically two sets of three broken lines (yin) with a solid line (yang) on * this time,my third line is a moving line.
My Interpretation.
This is where it gets interesting. Double Wind – it felt like a message about gentle persistence. Like, don’t force things, but keep at it steadily. The whole “penetrating” aspect made me think about needing to be adaptable, to find the cracks and openings, rather than trying to blast my way through.
Then the third line change to yang line. This turns hexagram 57 into hexagram 44.I am not very clear about the meaning of the line,but the new hexagram is Gou,encounter.
My Takeaway.
For my project, I interpreted this as needing to be more flexible in my approach. Instead of pushing for a specific outcome, I should try to go with the flow a bit more, see where the natural momentum * is not a time to make the big dicision.
Honestly, it’s not a perfect science, but I find the whole process helps me think about things in a different * is just an encounter. It’s like a little nudge to consider other perspectives, and sometimes that’s exactly what I need.
