Hexagram 9 · King Wen sequence
Hexagram 9: The Taming Power of the Small
小畜 · Xiao Xu
Small corrections and patient influence can accomplish more now than a dramatic push.
Upper and lower trigrams
Reflection meaning
Small corrections and patient influence can accomplish more now than a dramatic push.
Tend the details, reduce friction, and let incremental gains accumulate.
If this hexagram appears in a changing reading
Changing lines mark the parts of the six-line figure that move from yin to yang or yang to yin. Those changes generate a second hexagram. Oracle Mirror presents the first hexagram as the current symbolic pattern and the transformed hexagram as a second lens on the direction of change; it does not treat the second figure as a guaranteed future event.
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