Meaning
Wind enters every gap, and wood sends its roots into every crack: 巽 is both, and here it is doubled, one gentle line beneath two strong ones in each half. The Shuogua's word for its virtue is 入, entering, which is what our title translates. The Judgment is modest: some small attainment, advantage in going somewhere, and in seeing the great man.
The Image draws from wind following wind the lesson of repetition: the superior man gives his orders again and again, and so his affairs are carried out. In our own reading, 巽 is influence by persistence rather than by force, and its line texts insist that persistence needs a decision behind it: wavering is the trouble, not gentleness.
The lines
The first line goes forward and back, and is told it needs a soldier's firmness. The second is beneath a couch with diviners and exorcists around it, a scene from old religion that the text calls fortunate; the third gets in only "by violent and repeated efforts", in Legge's words, and regrets it. The fourth goes hunting and takes game of three kinds; the fifth is told to weigh three days before a change and three days after, as in hexagram 18. At the top the subject is again beneath the couch, and has lost the axe it decided with.
Its pair is 兌, hexagram 58, the same figure upside down; within 巽 lies 睽, hexagram 38, and every line flipped gives 震, hexagram 51.
In the birth cast
The time cast arrives at 巽 when the year, month and day leave 5 on eight, which puts 巽 wind above, and the same total with the hour added leaves 5, which puts 巽 wind below. Which line moves depends on what the whole total leaves on six, and each line turns the figure into a different hexagram:
- Line 1 (初六) moving: becomes 9 小畜 Xiǎo Xù, Small Restraint
- Line 2 (九二) moving: becomes 53 漸 Jiàn, Step by Step
- Line 3 (九三) moving: becomes 59 渙 Huàn, Scattering
- Line 4 (六四) moving: becomes 44 姤 Gòu, Encounter
- Line 5 (九五) moving: becomes 18 蠱 Gǔ, Repairing Decay
- Line 6 (上九) moving: becomes 48 井 Jǐng, The Well
Lines 2 to 5 give the hexagram within, 38 睽 Kuí, Estrangement. Everyone born in the same lunar day and double hour has the same cast, so the figure describes a moment, not a person.
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.
- Trigram virtues (Shuogua, chapter 7)
- 巽 entering, pervading, doubled, in our English sourced
- Trigram family places (Shuogua)
- eldest daughter, doubled sourced
- Trigram body and animal images (Shuogua)
- thighs and fowl, doubled sourced
- Trigram phases (a classical correspondence: the Plum Blossom text's table)
- Wood, doubled. The Han assignment of 梅花易數, book 1, also used by Jing Fang; not stated as such in the Zhouyi sourced
- Inverse and opposite
- Upside down: 58 兌 Duì, Openness; every line flipped: 51 震 Zhèn, Shock sourced
- Human Design gate
- Gate 57, from 195.125° to 200.75° of the tropical zodiac on Ra Uru Hu's wheel (1987): a modern placing, not the I Ching's sourced
- Our English title
- Entering Wind: EsoTerrier's own, from the sense of 巽 our construction
How the schools read it
- The Zhouyi, in Legge's translation (1882)
- “Sun intimates that (under the conditions which it denotes) there will be some little attainment and progress.”
- The Image (大象), one of the Wings, in our paraphrase
- Two winds following each other; the superior man repeats his orders and secures the practice of his affairs.
- The Plum Blossom method (Ming)
- A figure reached by numbers: 巽 above when the year, month and day leave 5 on eight, 巽 below when the same total with the hour leaves 5.
- Human Design (Ra Uru Hu, 1987)
- Takes the number for its gate 57 and puts it on the zodiac; its own reading, which we do not quote.
- EsoTerrier
- Wind following wind: influence that enters by persistence, quietly and everywhere; small repeated steps towards a clear aim, deciding rather than going back and forth.
Claims about it
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Gate 57 of Human Design, at 195.125° to 200.75° of the zodiac, is where the I Ching itself places hexagram 57.
falseWhat the record shows: The wheel is Shao Yong's circle rotated by Ra Uru Hu in 1987 to 1989 so that hexagram 41 starts at 2° Aquarius. No Chinese source we found puts the hexagrams on degrees of the zodiac.
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Being born under 巽 Xùn fixes a person's character.
unverifiedWhat the record shows: A modern reading with no source in the tradition. The Zhouyi has no birth hexagram; the cast reads a figure, not a person, and everyone born in the same lunar day and double hour shares it.
