Hexagram 34 line 4: Great Power, yang in the fourth place

What changes when line 4 moves

Line 4 of Hexagram 34 is yang, a solid line. When it is cast as old yang (a 9) it flips, and the hexagram becomes Hexagram 11, Peace: Heaven and earth in communion: a time of flourishing, when the small departs and the great arrives.

Read together, the reading moves from Great Power toward Peace. Strength in the ascendant: thunder in heaven, and the discipline to use power only in what is right. Heaven below, earth above: the two principles moving toward each other and meeting. Peace is one of the most favourable hexagrams, describing a season when things that belong together are together, when the strong and the gentle cooperate, and when what is petty is on its way out. 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 34 changing to 11 →

Line 4 in context

Love & relationships

Work quietly and persistently; the hedge opens on its own. In love and relationships, Hexagram 34 reads: You have the upper hand or the stronger feeling, and the reading asks you not to use it to push. Strength in a relationship is shown by what it declines to do. Butting the hedge gets the horns stuck.

Career

Work quietly and persistently; the hedge opens on its own. In career, Hexagram 34 reads: Momentum and capability are high. Use them within the rules and the proper channels; the reading favours legitimate advance and warns sharply against forcing through obstacles by sheer force. What is right, done firmly, wins.

Money

Work quietly and persistently; the hedge opens on its own. In money, Hexagram 34 reads: Strong position, growing resources. The discipline is to keep to sound methods rather than to use the strength for an aggressive play. Power that stays within order compounds; power that charges the fence loses.

A decision

Work quietly and persistently; the hedge opens on its own. In decisions, Hexagram 34 reads: Decide firmly, and choose the option that is both strong and correct. If the strong option requires breaking a rule or forcing someone, the reading says it will stall. Persist within the right.