Hexagram 17
Follow the Current
suí
Reading it as a decision
Thunder stirs first, low and rumbling, and the lake above answers by moving with it — this hexagram is built around motion that draws willing agreement rather than commanding it. Suí describes a situation shaped by momentum that isn't fully yours: a leader, a market, a person, or a trend that's already moving, and the live question is whether to move with it. The classical judgment calls this a moment of real opportunity, provided the direction you attach to is sound — genuine success, but only if the following is done with integrity, not convenience.
The classical line texts here read as more mixed than triumphant, and iYarrow's read on the position itself is similarly unsettled — this isn't ground where the signal clearly favors staying put or peeling off; there simply isn't enough of it yet either way. That makes the real work watching closely rather than reacting quickly: figure out whether the movement you'd be joining has staying power before you commit your own momentum to it.
The classical text
Judgment (卦辭)
隨,元亨,利貞,無咎。
Following brings great success and favors steady resolve; there is no fault in going along with what draws one on.
The six lines (爻辭)
初九:官有渝,貞吉。出門交有功。
One's post shifts; holding firm brings good fortune, and stepping out to meet others yields results.
六二:系小子,失丈夫。
Clinging to the young boy, one lets the grown man go.
六三:系丈夫,失小子。隨有求得,利居貞。
Clinging to the grown man, the young boy is lost; following him brings what is sought, favoring settled steadiness.
九四:隨有獲,貞凶。有孚在道,以明,何咎?
Following brings gain, yet clinging to it turns ominous; sincerity kept openly on the road clears any blame.
九五:孚于嘉,吉。
Sincerity given to what is genuinely good brings good fortune.
上六:拘系之,乃從維之。王用亨于西山。
He is bound and tied fast, held in place; the king makes offering at the western mountain.
This is a general reference, not a live reading — it doesn't know your situation. iYarrow casts a fresh hexagram for the actual question you're weighing.
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