Hexagram 31 of 64 · King Wen sequence

Influence

咸 · xián

Above: Lake
Below: Mountain

The lake above the mountain: young water on old stone — resonance, attraction, the openness that lets something move you.

The lake rests on the mountain and the mountain drinks: Influence is the hexagram of being genuinely moved — by a person, a work, an idea — and the discipline of staying open enough for that to happen at all.

The tradition locates the sensitivity in the whole body, and its counsel is about what you carry: an empty self is moved by everything shallow; a full self is moved only by what matches it. Know which parts of you are doing the responding.

Questions this hexagram asks

What is actually moving me right now — and what in me is doing the moving?
Where am I closed to being influenced out of habit?
Who or what resonates with me so strongly it changes my week?

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