Hexagram 34 line 6: Great Power, yin in the sixth place

What changes when line 6 moves

Line 6 of Hexagram 34 is yin, a broken line. When it is cast as old yin (a 6) it flips, and the hexagram becomes Hexagram 14, Great Possession: Great possession held with modesty: abundance that lasts because its owner does not cling to it.

Read together, the reading moves from Great Power toward Great Possession. Strength in the ascendant: thunder in heaven, and the discipline to use power only in what is right. Heaven below, fire above: the sun at its height, illuminating everything. Great Possession is a hexagram of abundance, and its subject is not how to get wealth but how to hold it. 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 14 →

Line 6 in context

Love & relationships

Admit you are stuck; that admission is what frees you. 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

Admit you are stuck; that admission is what frees you. 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

Admit you are stuck; that admission is what frees you. 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

Admit you are stuck; that admission is what frees you. 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.