Hexagram 13 line 4: Fellowship, yang in the fourth place

What changes when line 4 moves

Line 4 of Hexagram 13 is yang, a solid line. When it is cast as old yang (a 9) it flips, and the hexagram becomes Hexagram 37, The Family: The household in order: roles, warmth and words with substance, from which everything larger is built.

Read together, the reading moves from Fellowship toward The Family. Open fellowship in the open: union built on a shared purpose rather than a shared clique. Fire below, wind above: wind rising from fire, influence spreading outward from the hearth. The Family describes the structure of the household and, by extension, of any close group: each person in a fitting role, relationships held by affection and by rule together, and the whole kept in order from the inside. The primary hexagram describes the situation; the changing line is the point of movement in it; the resulting hexagram is where that movement leads. Both hexagrams belong to the reading, and the changing line is the hinge between them.

Hexagram 13 changing to 37 →

Line 4 in context

Love & relationships

Stop at the wall; the attack you could make would be wrong. In love and relationships, Hexagram 13 reads: Partnership founded on shared values and conducted openly. Secrets and private alliances, with friends or family, are the risk the hexagram names. Be together in the open and for the same reasons.

Career

Stop at the wall; the attack you could make would be wrong. In career, Hexagram 13 reads: A team, collaboration or public venture with a clear common goal. The reading supports it, and supports crossing the great water, meaning a large undertaking. Keep it transparent and keep factions out.

Money

Stop at the wall; the attack you could make would be wrong. In money, Hexagram 13 reads: Shared enterprise works when the purpose is shared and the terms are open. Beware of arrangements that benefit an inner circle at the expense of the whole; they break.

A decision

Stop at the wall; the attack you could make would be wrong. In decisions, Hexagram 13 reads: Decide with the group, in the open, for a purpose everyone can name. The option that requires a private deal or a hidden side is the one to reject.