Influence
Judgment
— I Ching · classical
亨，利贞，取女吉。
Influence. Success. Perseverance furthers. To take a maiden to wife brings good fortune.
Image
— Great Image
山上有泽，咸，君子以虚受人。
A lake on the mountain: the image of influence. Thus the superior person encourages people to approach by their readiness to receive them.
Six Lines
— Bottom to top
Modern Readings
— Interdisciplinary
Career & Management
User experience research, brand-emotion connection, business negotiation. Persuade with empathy, not metrics. Beware the top line: PR talk without product delivery.
Psychology & Cognition
Stay alert to environmental and others' emotional cues. In love and partnership, attend to genuine emotional flow rather than calculation.
Decision Guidance
Receive with openness (empty heart receives others). Reject the seduction of mere talk — the deepest influence acts through reality, not the tongue.
Western Parallels
— Cross-cultural
Carl Rogers on unconditional positive regard and empathic listening; Martin Buber's 'I and Thou' as the model of true encounter; design thinking's emphasis on empathy mapping; the contrast between Aristotelian 'logos' (substance) and 'pathos' (mere feeling-talk).
· English renderings and modern readings are original editorial writing, cross-checked against public-domain and classical commentary lineages.
· Anygua does not predict, score, schedule, ward, or recommend rituals.
· Modern inputs are reproducible; traditional casts can be audited line by line from the stored coin/yarrow trace.