Hexagram 31 · Influence

亨，利贞，取女吉。
咸象征心灵感应、相互吸引。通达、利于守正。娶妻、开展平等真诚的合作，大吉。少男少女相感，以虚受人。
初六 咸其拇。
六二 咸其腓，凶，居吉。
九三 咸其股，执其随，往吝。
九四 贞吉，悔亡。憧憧往来，朋从尔思。
九五 咸其脢，无悔。
上六 咸其辅、颊、舌。

亨，利贞，取女吉。
Genuine connection brings success, and staying true to it pays off — like a marriage entered into with real feeling, it brings good fortune.
Initial Six: The very first stirring of feeling, felt only at the big toe -- barely enough to notice yet.
Six in the second: The feeling has spread up to the calves now -- acting on that impulse brings misfortune, but staying put brings good fortune instead.
Nine in the third: It's reached the thighs now -- simply following wherever momentum leads. Keeping on like this ends in embarrassment.
Nine in the fourth: Staying true to this brings good fortune and dissolves any regret. Even if the mind races back and forth restlessly, only the friends you'd genuinely choose will actually stay close.
Nine in the fifth: The feeling has settled at the back of the neck now -- distant, a bit removed, but nothing to regret in that.
Six at the top: By now it shows only in the jaw, the cheeks, the tongue -- all talk, nothing underneath it.