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Hexagram Thirty-Two

Duration

Thunder with wind: the enduring union of motion and constancy.

Zhen: a forest before thunder
Upper trigram · Zhen
Xun: wind through bamboo
Lower trigram · Xun

Thunder and wind travel together — perpetual motion that never loses its law. Duration is the hexagram of the long arc: marriage, vocation, practice — forms that persist not by rigidity but by continual self-renewal within a constant direction. Its counsel is to stand firm in the meaning of your path while refreshing its methods, and to distrust both restless novelty and dead routine. What endures is not what never moves; it is what never scatters.

On wealth

Favour durable positions and repeatable methods; the compounding is in the staying, refreshed but unswerving.

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