This hexagram, "Xun," signifies humility and compliance, conveying the principle of achieving success through humility and compliancy in dealing with others. However, it also warns against blind obedience, indecisiveness, and excessive timidity, advocating for using humility to achieve goals. Wind: Represents instability, sometimes gentle, sometimes violent. It is a pure hexagram of six disruptions, indicating a situation of great highs and lows. This signifies unpredictable circumstances, including people, events, relationships, and investments, which are difficult to control and will involve twists and turns.
One yin line yielding to two yang lines should follow the gentle and submissive characteristic of the hexagram Xun (Wind), acting in accordance with others. Two winds follow each other in succession, creating a continuous and encouraging effect. This extends to repeatedly and thoroughly issuing commands, allowing the message to deeply resonate with the people, embodying the meaning of "Xun" and "submission." Xun signifies wind, yin wood, entering, and the eldest daughter. When the wind blows, it enters everywhere, thus extending to the meaning of pervasiveness and yielding to the wind in submission. The flow of wind is fast and formless. This hexagram, being two Xun winds, blows in gusts, symbolizing initial small gains followed by numerous setbacks.
