Hexagram 25 line 4: Innocence, yang in the fourth place

What changes when line 4 moves

Line 4 of Hexagram 25 is yang, a solid line. When it is cast as old yang (a 9) it flips, and the hexagram becomes Hexagram 42, Increase: The top gives to the base and everything grows: a time of increase, to be used well and used now.

Read together, the reading moves from Innocence toward Increase. Acting without calculation: doing what is right because it is right, and accepting what comes. Thunder below, wind above: the two reinforcing each other, wind spreading the thunder's force. Increase is the mirror of Decrease: what is above gives to what is below, and the whole flourishes. 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 25 changing to 42 →

Line 4 in context

Love & relationships

Hold your ground and your principles; that is enough here. In love and relationships, Hexagram 25 reads: Act from what you honestly feel, without strategy. The reading favours the natural gesture and warns against managing the other person. Unexpected events, good and bad, come to those who are sincere; take them as they are.

Career

Hold your ground and your principles; that is enough here. In career, Hexagram 25 reads: Do the work honestly, without positioning. The reading supports straightforward action and is suspicious of clever plans. If something undeserved happens, do not let it make you cynical; that would be the real loss.

Money

Hold your ground and your principles; that is enough here. In money, Hexagram 25 reads: Do not scheme. Honest dealing, straightforward work and acceptance of what comes. The reading warns against calculated moves and against reacting to a setback by abandoning your principles.

A decision

Hold your ground and your principles; that is enough here. In decisions, Hexagram 25 reads: Choose the option you would choose if no one were watching and nothing could be gained. If a decision requires cunning to work, the reading says it will not.