Work on What Has Been Spoiled

Wind trapped at the mountain’s base: neglect that can be repaired by honest work.

Gen: still mountains — Upper trigram · Gen

Xun: wind through bamboo — Lower trigram · Xun

Wind circles stale at the foot of the mountain — the image of decay through neglect. This hexagram is bracing rather than bleak: what has spoiled, spoiled through inattention, and the same attention reversed repairs it. Its counsel is deliberate renovation — three days of study before the repair, three days of vigilance after. Inherited messes, drifted habits, accounts unexamined: all respond to the same medicine of methodical, unglamorous restoration.

On wealth

Audit what has drifted — subscriptions, agreements, stale arrangements — and repair methodically before building new.

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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