Hexagram 34 line 5: Great Power, yin in the fifth place

What changes when line 5 moves

Line 5 of Hexagram 34 is yin, a broken line. When it is cast as old yin (a 6) it flips, and the hexagram becomes Hexagram 43, Breakthrough: Five strong lines against one weak one at the top: the decisive, open resolution of a last remaining wrong.

Read together, the reading moves from Great Power toward Breakthrough. Strength in the ascendant: thunder in heaven, and the discipline to use power only in what is right. Heaven below, lake above: a lake risen to the sky, about to burst. Breakthrough describes the moment when what has been building must break: a resolute declaration against a last inferior element, made openly and in the right way. 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 43 →

Line 5 in context

Love & relationships

Let go of stubbornness once the resistance has ended. 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

Let go of stubbornness once the resistance has ended. 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

Let go of stubbornness once the resistance has ended. 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

Let go of stubbornness once the resistance has ended. 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.