Hexagram 42 line 6: Increase, yang in the sixth place

What changes when line 6 moves

Line 6 of Hexagram 42 is yang, a solid line. When it is cast as old yang (a 9) it flips, and the hexagram becomes Hexagram 3, Difficulty at the Beginning: A birth is hard: the situation is new, tangled and full of promise, and it needs helpers.

Read together, the reading moves from Increase toward Difficulty at the Beginning. The top gives to the base and everything grows: a time of increase, to be used well and used now. Thunder below, water above: a storm at the start of things, and a blade of grass pushing through packed earth. Difficulty at the Beginning describes the chaos of a genuine start, not a failure. 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 42 changing to 3 →

Line 6 in context

Love & relationships

If you have stopped giving, start again before the blow lands. In love and relationships, Hexagram 42 reads: A time of growth and giving. Invest in the relationship generously; the conditions favour it and the giving comes back. The reading warns that increase is a season, and that taking without giving, at the end, leaves you alone.

Career

If you have stopped giving, start again before the blow lands. In career, Hexagram 42 reads: Expansion. The reading supports the ambitious project and the big crossing. Use the help coming from above, give it forward, and improve what can be improved while the wind is behind you.

Money

If you have stopped giving, start again before the blow lands. In money, Hexagram 42 reads: Growth, and the moment to act on it: invest, undertake, build. Use the increase for lasting good rather than display. The reading is favourable and time-limited; use it while it lasts.

A decision

If you have stopped giving, start again before the blow lands. In decisions, Hexagram 42 reads: Take the expansive option. The conditions support undertaking something substantial. Decide now; the reading says increase is a moment, and moments pass.