Hexagram 57 for love
Hexagram 57 Yielding (Wind) in love and relationships
Xun is wind over wind: the eldest daughter doubled, influence that enters by persistence rather than force. In a relationship it describes the gentle, repeated kind of closeness — the patient partner, the one who says the same thing softly until it is heard — and the Judgment's 'small success' is honest about its scale. Wind does not move mountains; it moves everything slowly. The lines warn that gentleness has its own failure modes: the wavering of line one, the forced, grudging compliance of line three, and at the top a softness so complete it can no longer say what it wants.
For a question about love, then, the hexagram favours steady, unforced attention and distrusts the dramatic gesture. Its best positions are line two, humility that is sincere and centred, and line four, which simply does the work and sees results. A changing line in the lower trigram asks whether your yielding is settled or merely indecisive; one in the upper trigram asks whether it still has a direction of its own.
The hexagram in brief
Wind upon wind: the gentle that penetrates everywhere. Small success; favourable to have somewhere to go and to see the great man — persistent gentle influence rather than force.
Repeat your message softly and consistently, and give your gentleness a clear direction, or it becomes mere drifting.
The judgment
巽：小亨，利有攸往，利見大人。Sun intimates that (under the conditions which it denotes) there will be some little attainment and progress. There will be advantage in movement onward in whatever direction. It will be advantageous (also) to see the great man.
Which line changed?
A changing line sharpens the answer. Each line of 巽 Yielding (Wind) has its own page:
- 初六Six at the beginningwavering · advance and retreat · soldier's resolve
- 九二Nine in the second placebeneath the bed · humble sincerity · centred
- 九三Nine in the third placeforced compliance · repeated yielding · exhausted will
- 六四Six in the fourth placeregret vanishes · threefold catch · merit
- 九五Nine in the fifth placethe ruler's command · three days before and after · good end
- 上九Nine at the topyielding exhausted · lost axe · no decision left
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Questions
- Is hexagram 57, Yielding (Wind), a good sign for love?
- Xun is wind over wind: the eldest daughter doubled, influence that enters by persistence rather than force. In a relationship it describes the gentle, repeated kind of closeness — the patient partner, the one who says the same thing softly until it is heard — and the Judgment's 'small success' is honest about its scale. Wind does not move mountains; it moves everything slowly. The lines warn that gentleness has its own failure modes: the wavering of line one, the forced, grudging compliance of line three, and at the top a softness so complete it can no longer say what it wants.
- What does Hexagram 57, 巽 Yielding (Wind), mean?
- Wind upon wind: the gentle that penetrates everywhere. Small success; favourable to have somewhere to go and to see the great man — persistent gentle influence rather than force.
Chinese text: the received Zhouyi (Wuyingdian lineage). English: James Legge, The Yî King, Sacred Books of the East XVI, 1882 (public domain).