The Gentle (Wind)
The Penetrating Root
Legge's 1882 Shuogua translation links Xun with seeking profit of three hundred per cent, alongside wind and wood.
Shuogua, Discussion of the Trigrams, in James Legge, The Yî King (1882), Appendix V, chapters V, VII–XI, pp. 425, 428–431.
The Yijing trigram Xun: a broken line beneath two unbroken lines.
More context
Xun has a broken line below two unbroken lines. The Shuogua names penetration as its attribute and associates it with wind, wood, the eldest daughter, a fowl and the thighs. In its seasonal account, Xun occupies the south-east, where things come into ordered development. Its extended catalogue includes advancing and retreating, indecision, carpentry tools and pursuit of gain. Wilhelm's commentary on doubled Xun, hexagram 57, explains gentle penetration through wind and growing roots. The text offers a wider set of associations than uninterrupted patient effort alone.
Light
The Shuogua associates Xun with penetration and ordered development; Wilhelm’s doubled-Xun commentary describes influence sustained towards a definite goal.
Shadow
The Shuogua also names advancing and retreating, indecision and close pursuit of gain among Xun’s correspondences.