I Ching · Hexagram 17
Suí: Following
Thunder rests inside the lake, as the year rests in autumn. Sui is knowing when to follow: adapting to the time and to people worth following, so that others can follow you too.
- Keywords
- Adaptability, following, timing, rest
- Upper trigram
- Lake (Dui)
- Lower trigram
- Thunder (Zhen)
- Advice
- Adjust to what the moment asks and rest when it is time to rest.
Changing lines
When you cast this hexagram, any changing line is turning into its opposite: yang into yin, or yin into yang. Changing them gives a second hexagram that suggests where things are heading. Hexagram meanings are a starting point for reflection, not predictions.