Hexagram 51 line 2: The Arousing, yin in the second place

What changes when line 2 moves

Line 2 of Hexagram 51 is yin, a broken line. When it is cast as old yin (a 6) it flips, and the hexagram becomes Hexagram 54, The Marrying Maiden: Entering a relationship on unequal terms: a position with little standing, held well by tact and by knowing its limits.

Read together, the reading moves from The Arousing toward The Marrying Maiden. Thunder repeated: a shock that terrifies for a hundred miles, and the composure not to drop the ladle. Lake below, thunder above: the young daughter following the eldest son, joy in the wake of movement. The Marrying Maiden describes a relationship or a role entered from a position of weakness: the secondary partner, the junior, the one who joins an arrangement already formed. 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 51 changing to 54 →

Line 2 in context

Love & relationships

Do not chase what the shock scattered; withdraw to high ground and it comes back. In love and relationships, Hexagram 51 reads: A shock in the relationship: a revelation, a loss, a sudden fright. The reading does not minimise it. It asks you not to drop what you hold: keep your composure, do not act from the first terror, and let the fright become the examination that puts things in order.

Career

Do not chase what the shock scattered; withdraw to high ground and it comes back. In career, Hexagram 51 reads: Sudden upheaval: a change of leadership, a crisis, a jolt. The people who come through are the ones who keep their heads while the thunder rolls. Do not make big decisions in the first shock; use it to review everything.

Money

Do not chase what the shock scattered; withdraw to high ground and it comes back. In money, Hexagram 51 reads: A financial shock. The reading's counsel is composure: do not sell in terror, do not act in the roll of the thunder. Examine what the shock reveals about your arrangements and set them in order.

A decision

Do not chase what the shock scattered; withdraw to high ground and it comes back. In decisions, Hexagram 51 reads: Do not decide inside the shock. Let the thunder pass, hold what you are holding, and decide once the fear has become examination. The reading's laughter comes after the fright, not during it.