Gene Keys profile, key 57: 巽 Xùn

Key 57 is 巽 Xùn, wind doubled: the gentle trigram that enters everywhere, as wind enters every gap and roots enter the ground. Our three words for its bands come from the first line's advancing and retreating, the Shuo Gua's definition of the trigram as entering, and the Image of winds that follow one another.

Meaning

巽 is the trigram of wind and of wood, a yielding line beneath two strong ones: something soft that gets in under what is firm. Doubled, it is wind following wind, influence that works by persistence rather than impact. The statement of the hexagram promises small success, advantage in having somewhere to go, and in seeing the great person. Our gloss is wind, entering. The text, with Legge's translation, is on the hexagram 57 page.

The Image gives the winds a social use: the noble person repeats their instructions and so carries out their affairs. Key 57 pairs with key 58, the lake doubled; its opposite on the wheel is key 51, thunder doubled.

The three bands

The Shadow band, Vacillation, is the first line, 進退: advancing and retreating, which the text answers with a soldier's firmness. It is going forward and back without deciding. The Gift band, Pervasiveness, is the Shuo Gua's definition, 巽入也: 巽 means entering, influence that reaches everywhere quietly, like wind. The Siddhi band, Subtlety, is the Image, 隨風: winds following one another, an influence so fine it is never felt as pressure.

So the three bands describe gentleness that wavers, that permeates, and that no longer needs to be noticed at all.

In a profile

Key 57 belongs to no particular row. It stands in a profile wherever one of the thirteen bodies stood between 15°07′30″ Libra and 20°45′ Libra at birth or at the design moment, and so it can fill any of the thirteen rows or the three further tags.

The Sun passes through it each year from about 8 to 13 October. People born then have key 57 as their Life's Work and its opposite, key 51, as their Evolution, the Earth's place. For people born about three months later, from about 4 to 8 January, it is the Radiance, where the Sun stood at the design moment.

Each of its six lines is 56′15″ wide. A position from 15°07′30″ Libra is in line 1, read by our theme Foundation; one from 19°48′45″ Libra is in line 6, Overview. Every key's lines take the same six themes of ours, and the line of a fast body like the Moon depends on the birth time to the hour.

Correspondences

Each item with how it stands: “sourced” is in the work cited, “our construction” is EsoTerrier’s own, and “disputed” means the sources disagree.

Hexagram and number: 巽 Xùn, hexagram 57 in the received (King Wen) order of the Zhouyi; Legge (1882) writes the name Sun sourced
Trigram images: Wind / wood below, Wind / wood above, as the Shuo Gua names them sourced
Our gloss: wind, entering: EsoTerrier's own, the same in our I Ching chart, not a translator's title our construction
Our words for the three bands: Vacillation, Pervasiveness and Subtlety, written in October 2026 from the hexagram's own texts; none is one of Rudd's words our construction
Opposite on the wheel: Key 51, 180° round the wheel, with every line reversed; Rudd calls it the programming partner sourced
Pair in the received order: Key 58, 兌 Duì: the same six lines turned upside down, next to it in the received order sourced
Within and upside down: Lines 2 to 5 give 38 睽 Kuí; the figure turned upside down gives 58 兌 Duì sourced
Codon ring (Rudd): Rudd groups this key in his Ring of Matter, which he ties to alanine: his grouping and his choice of amino acid, not a finding of genetics sourced
Place on the wheel: Gate 57 of Ra Uru Hu's wheel (1987 to 1989), 15°07′30″ Libra to 20°45′ Libra (195.125° to 200.75° of tropical longitude): a modern placing, not the I Ching's sourced

How the schools read it

The Zhouyi, after Legge (1882): Some small attainment and progress; advantage in movement in any direction and in seeing the great man. The text in full is on the hexagram 57 page.
Human Design (Ra Uru Hu, 1987 onward): Gate 57, in the Spleen centre. The parent system gives the gate its own name and reading, which are Jovian Archive's and which we do not give here.
Richard Rudd, The Gene Keys (2009): Key 57, read at three bands he calls the Shadow, the Gift and the Siddhi, each with a word of his own, under a chapter title of his own; we reproduce neither. He names key 51 its programming partner.
EsoTerrier: Gentle influence: it goes forward and back without deciding, enters everywhere quietly, like wind, and at its peak is an influence so fine that it is never felt as force.

Claims about it

Key 57 is a code held in the genes, and contemplating it changes how they are expressed.
unverified

What the record shows: The central metaphor of Rudd's system, given by its author, not a finding. The profile is the positions of thirteen bodies at two moments, read on a 64-part wheel; no gene, codon or measurement of the body enters it.
Key 57 belongs to the Ring of Matter, a chemical family in the body tied to alanine.
unverified

What the record shows: Rudd's grouping. His ring sizes follow the real number of codons per amino acid in the genetic code, but which hexagram goes with which codon is his own choice, and nothing in genetics links a hexagram to an amino acid.
The place of key 57 on the zodiac, 15°07′30″ Libra to 20°45′ Libra, is an old I Ching teaching.
false

What the record shows: The wheel is Ra Uru Hu's, fixed between 1987 and 1989 by turning Shao Yong's 11th-century circle of the hexagrams so that hexagram 41 begins at 2° Aquarius. No Chinese source we know ties the hexagrams to degrees of the zodiac.

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Key 57, 巽 Xùn: wind following wind

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