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Cast the I Ching · Hexagram 24 of 64

Hexagram Twenty-Four

Return

Thunder stirring within the earth: the turning point where light re-enters.

Kun: sustaining earth
Upper trigram · Kun
Zhen: a forest before thunder
Lower trigram · Zhen

One yang line returns beneath five yin — the winter solstice hexagram, the year’s light reborn at its darkest point. Return marks the genuine turning point: small, unmistakable, not to be rushed. Its counsel is gentleness with the new cycle — the old kings closed the passes at solstice and let the world rest. Nurse the returning energy, revisit the original intention, and let recovery choose its own modest early pace.

On wealth

A recovery has quietly begun: re-enter gradually, at the pace of the returning trend, not ahead of it.

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