Hexagram 57, Xùn (The Gentle Wind): Line 3
巽卦九三 · 巽为风 · 中文版
九三:频巽,吝。
The line (Legge)
The third NINE, undivided, shows its subject penetrating (only) by violent and repeated efforts. There will be occasion for regret.
Small Image commentary
'The regret arising from the violent and repeated efforts to penetrate' shows the exhaustion of the will.
象曰:频巽之吝,志穷也。
In plain words
Repeated submission: regret. The third line is strong but not central, at the top of the lower trigram; strong by nature, it forces itself to comply, and each time it gives in it loses a little more of itself. The Small Image says its aims run out.
Applying it to your situation
If you keep forcing yourself to go along with others, this line suggests it will cost you yourself. Which time did you give in when you did not want to?
Position
A solid (yang) line in the third place, which is a yang (odd) place, so it is in its proper place. Its partner is line 6; both are yang, so they do not respond.
If this line moves
With this line moving alone, Xùn changes into Hexagram 59 Huàn (Dispersion). The Jiaoshi Yilin verse for this change (Chinese): 焦氏易林·巽之涣.
The hexagram
Hexagram 57 Xùn (The Gentle Wind). The Judgment: Xun intimates that (under the conditions which it denotes) there will be some little attainment and progress. There will be advantage in movement onward in whatever direction. It will be advantageous (also) to see the great man.
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English text: James Legge, The Yi King (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 16, 1882), public domain, as transcribed by the Chinese Text Project. Chinese: the received text. Offered for study and reflection, not as prediction. Plain-English readings and position notes by this site.