Hexagram 57 · Xùn (巽) · Gentle Penetration

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.

初六：進退，利武人之貞。

The first line, divided, shows its subject (now) advancing, (now) receding. It would be advantageous for him to have the firm correctness of a brave soldier.

九二：巽在牀下，用史巫紛若，吉无咎。

The second line, undivided, shows the representative of Sun beneath a couch, and employing diviners and exorcists in a way bordering on confusion. There will be good fortune and no error.

九三：頻巽，吝。

The third line, undivided, shows its subject penetrating (only) by violent and repeated efforts. There will be occasion for regret.

六四：悔亡，田獲三品。

The fourth line, divided, shows all occasion for repentance (in its subject) passed away. He takes game for its threefold use in his hunting.

九五：貞吉悔亡，无不利。无初有終，先庚三日，後庚三日，吉。

The fifth line, undivided, shows that with firm correctness there will be good fortune (to its subject). All occasion for repentance will disappear, and all his movements will be advantageous. There may have been no (good) beginning, but there will be a (good) end. Three days before making any changes, (let him give notice of them); and three days after, (let him reconsider them). There will (thus) be good fortune.

上九：巽在牀下，喪其資斧，貞凶。

The sixth line, undivided, shows the representative of penetration beneath a couch, and having lost the axe with which he executed his decisions. However firm and correct he may (try to) be, there will be evil.