Oshun is the Orisha of rivers, love, fertility, and the strategic use of beauty. She is not merely a goddess of romance — in the Ifá narratives she is the diplomat who succeeds where force fails, the only Orisha who could persuade Ogun to leave his self-imposed exile in the forest and return to civilization. She governs fresh water (not salt water — that is Yemoja's domain) and the kind of sweetness that opens doors. Hex 58 (The Joyous) is doubled lake: shared delight, the joy that draws people together. Hex 31 (Influence) is lake over mountain: mutual attraction, the courtship that precedes union. Oshun inhabits both — the joy that attracts and the influence that accomplishes through attraction rather than coercion. The I-Ching's Hex 58 warns that joy must be grounded in perseverance; Oshun's stories carry the same warning — her sweetness is real, but it is also strategy.