Hexagram 32 for love and relationships: Duration

恆 Héng · Love & relationships

The long relationship, and what keeps it alive: constancy with movement. Not the same every day, but the same direction every day. The reading favours commitment and warns against both restlessness and dead routine.

Wind below, thunder above: the two that always move together. Where Influence is the courtship, Duration is the marriage: the enduring union, the long practice, the thing that lasts because it keeps moving in a consistent direction. The tradition's judgement promises success, no blame, and the value of having somewhere to go. Duration is not standing still. Thunder and wind endure by moving; the seasons endure by changing. The reading says the situation asks for constancy of purpose, for not being distracted into novelty or worn into rigidity, and it promises that what keeps its direction keeps its life.

Advice: Keep your direction and renew your movement; constancy is alive, not fixed.
Warning: Constancy without direction becomes rigidity; movement without constancy becomes restlessness.

The changing lines, read for love and relationships

If your cast of Hexagram 32 had changing lines, these are what each one adds to a love question, and where each leads.

Line 1 · changes into 34 Great Power
Seeking duration too hastily brings persistent misfortune. Nothing furthers. Do not demand permanence yet; let it grow.
Line 2 · changes into 62 Small Excess
Remorse disappears. Restrain your strength to fit the place, and there is nothing to regret.
Line 3 · changes into 40 Deliverance
Not giving duration to one's character brings humiliation. Persistent humiliation. Steady your character; inconstancy is costing you respect repeatedly.
Line 4 · changes into 46 Pushing Upward
No game in the field. If there is nothing here, persistence will not create it; change the field.
Line 5 · changes into 28 Great Excess
Giving duration to one's character through persistence. Good fortune for a wife, misfortune for a husband. Match your kind of constancy to your role; the follower's constancy is not the leader's.
Line 6 · changes into 50 The Cauldron
Restlessness as an enduring condition brings misfortune. If your only constancy is restlessness, that is the fault to correct.

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