I Ching · Hexagram 20
Guān: Contemplation
Wind moves over the earth and touches everything it passes. Guan is looking carefully, from a height, at yourself and the situation, and knowing that others are watching you too.
- Keywords
- Observation, perspective, reflection, example
- Upper trigram
- Wind (Xun)
- Lower trigram
- Earth (Kun)
- Advice
- Step back and observe before acting; your example speaks louder than instructions.
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.