Following

Thunder resting within the lake: strength that wins loyalty by adapting.

Dui: an open marsh — Upper trigram · Dui

Zhen: a forest before thunder — Lower trigram · Zhen

Thunder settles under the lake’s surface — force learning to follow the season. Following concerns leadership’s other half: knowing when to come after, adapt, and let circumstances set the tempo. Its counsel is flexible allegiance to what is genuinely worth following — a person, a standard, the demands of the time — and honest rest when rest is due. Whoever would be followed must first learn to follow well; that is the whole hinge.

On wealth

Adapt the plan to the market’s actual rhythm rather than your preferred one, and rest between pushes.

Cast your own hexagram?

This is one hexagram of sixty-four. Three coins, six throws — bring a question and see which lines answer you, changing lines and all.

Cast the I Ching

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