I Ching · Hexagram 61
Zhōng Fú: Inner Truth
Wind moves over the lake and stirs its surface: influence that reaches the heart. Zhong Fu is sincerity strong enough to move even those hardest to reach.
- Keywords
- Sincerity, trust, empathy, inner truth
- Upper trigram
- Wind (Xun)
- Lower trigram
- Lake (Dui)
- Advice
- Understand others from the inside, and speak from the heart.
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.