Hexagram 16 line 5: Enthusiasm, yin in the fifth place

What changes when line 5 moves

Line 5 of Hexagram 16 is yin, a broken line. When it is cast as old yin (a 6) it flips, and the hexagram becomes Hexagram 45, Gathering Together: The lake gathering on the earth: people assembling around a centre, with the resources to make the gathering matter.

Read together, the reading moves from Enthusiasm toward Gathering Together. Thunder rising from the earth: energy that moves people when it moves with the grain of things. Earth below, lake above: water collecting on the land, a reservoir. Gathering Together describes assembly: people collecting around a leader or a cause, resources pooled, a community formed. 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 16 changing to 45 →

Line 5 in context

Love & relationships

The strain is chronic but not fatal; use it to stay awake. In love and relationships, Hexagram 16 reads: Real energy and delight between you, and the pull to carry each other along. Enjoy it and keep it honest. The risk named is complacency: enthusiasm that stops noticing the other person and becomes a mood.

Career

The strain is chronic but not fatal; use it to stay awake. In career, Hexagram 16 reads: Momentum. People are ready to follow and the moment favours action. Organise, appoint helpers, and move while the energy is high. Do not let the mood substitute for the plan.

Money

The strain is chronic but not fatal; use it to stay awake. In money, Hexagram 16 reads: Enthusiasm is where money is lost as often as made. The reading supports action that follows a real trend, and warns sharply against being carried away by excitement into commitments you have not examined.

A decision

The strain is chronic but not fatal; use it to stay awake. In decisions, Hexagram 16 reads: Act with the momentum, provided the direction is sound. Ask whether you are moving with the grain of the situation or merely with the feeling. If the former, go.