Hexagram 41 of 64损 Sǔn
䷨
Decrease
Less, on purpose.
Reduction, diminution, loss, lessening, sacrifice, decreasing excess, simplification
☶Mountain Above
☱Lake Below
Short Summary
FreeA mountain with a lake at its foot — the water wearing down the stone. Reduction that, done rightly, makes everything more useful.
Something in your life is being asked to reduce. A commitment, an expense, a habit, an attachment. The hexagram insists this is not loss. It is the specific kind of subtraction that creates space for what actually matters.
Lake below mountain
water shaping the stone;
less, and the truer form.