Hexagram 35 line 6: Progress, yang in the sixth place

What changes when line 6 moves

Line 6 of Hexagram 35 is yang, a solid line. When it is cast as old yang (a 9) it flips, and the hexagram becomes Hexagram 16, Enthusiasm: Thunder rising from the earth: energy that moves people when it moves with the grain of things.

Read together, the reading moves from Progress toward Enthusiasm. The sun rising over the earth: rapid, easy progress, and a leader who is rewarded and received three times a day. Earth below, thunder above: movement breaking out of stillness, music and spring. Enthusiasm is the power to carry people along, and the tradition ties it to timing and to the natural order: it works when it moves with the way things already tend, as thunder follows the season. 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 35 changing to 16 →

Line 6 in context

Love & relationships

If force is needed now, use it only to correct your own house. In love and relationships, Hexagram 35 reads: Things are moving forward easily and being met with warmth. Enjoy the advance and keep your conduct clear. The lines warn against pressing on when the advance is not being received, and against advancing in the wrong spirit.

Career

If force is needed now, use it only to correct your own house. In career, Hexagram 35 reads: Rapid, recognised progress: the right superior, the open road, the rewards arriving. Advance confidently and keep your character bright; the reading ties the durability of the progress to the clarity of the person making it.

Money

If force is needed now, use it only to correct your own house. In money, Hexagram 35 reads: Gains come easily and are recognised. Advance, but do not chase; the reading supports progress that follows from real merit and warns against grasping for more than is being offered.

A decision

If force is needed now, use it only to correct your own house. In decisions, Hexagram 35 reads: Take the forward option. The conditions favour advance and the door is open. Make the decision in the spirit of someone whose conduct can bear being seen in full daylight.