Jiàn · Gradual Progress
Upper trigram: ☴ Wind · lower trigram: ☶ Mountain
Advance by stages like the wild goose rising; what ripens slowly brings good fortune.
The archaic graph shows a flight of wild geese migrating in an ordered, rhythmic way along the mountain ridges, rising by successive stages without ever breaking their formation. It symbolises organic development, the natural and harmonious progression that scrupulously respects the intermediate stages needed for the solidity of the edifice.
Ordered growth and gradual integration
This hexagram describes a phase of favourable, regular evolution (a marriage taking shape with respect for tradition, a successful professional integration, a patient spiritual development). Shortcuts are impossible and dangerous; success depends on your respect for the natural calendar of things. Everything settles in a lasting way.
Maintain regularity and respect the stages
The strategy demands patience and a keen sense of conformity: "The maiden marries: opening". The Accomplished Being establishes themselves in a dignified and constant conduct to improve the ways of those around them. Do not seek to accelerate the movement out of ambition; consolidate each stage before aiming at the next, and let the situation ripen at its own rhythm.
Energetically, the figure joins the trigram of Wind/Wood (Xun, flexibility, gentleness) below to the trigram of the Mountain (Gen, stabilisation, anchoring) above. The Wood grows slowly on the flank of the Mountain, adapting to the terrain to rise in a stable and majestic way. The challenge for the consultant is to accept this constructive slowness without yielding to impatience.
Each line is read only if it is changing in your cast. A changing line transforms the figure: the link under each text shows which hexagram it leads to.
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