Hexagram 35 for love and relationships: Progress

晉 Jìn · Love & relationships

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.

Earth below, fire above: the sun climbing above the land, light spreading. Progress is the hexagram of advance that meets no serious resistance, of the capable person recognised by an enlightened superior. The tradition's judgement is of a powerful prince honoured with horses in large numbers and received in audience three times in a single day. The reading says the way is open and the advance is favoured, and the image adds the condition: the wise person brightens their own virtue. Progress of this kind is sustained by clarity of character, not by the momentum alone.

Advice: Advance while the road is open, and keep your conduct as clear as the light.
Warning: Progress that outruns one's character, or that grasps for gain, loses the recognition that made it.

The changing lines, read for love and relationships

If your cast of Hexagram 35 had changing lines, these are what each one adds to a love question, and where each leads.

Line 1 · changes into 21 Biting Through
Progressing but turned back. Persistence brings good fortune. Meeting no confidence, remain calm; no mistake. Rebuffed at first; stay calm and correct, and trust follows.
Line 2 · changes into 64 Before Completion
Progressing, but in sorrow. Persistence brings good fortune. Great happiness is received from one's ancestress. The block is real and so is the sorrow; persist, and gentle help arrives.
Line 3 · changes into 56 The Wanderer
All are in agreement. Remorse disappears. You have everyone's support; move with them.
Line 4 · changes into 23 Splitting Apart
Progress like a hamster. Persistence brings danger. Advancing by stealth will be seen; stop it now.
Line 5 · changes into 12 Standstill
Remorse disappears. Do not take gain and loss to heart. Undertakings bring good fortune. Act without clinging to gain or loss; the undertaking succeeds.
Line 6 · changes into 16 Enthusiasm
Progressing with the horns. Use only for punishing one's own city. Awareness of danger brings good fortune. Persistence brings humiliation. If force is needed now, use it only to correct your own house.

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