Hexagram 55 line 2: Abundance, yin in the second place

What changes when line 2 moves

Line 2 of Hexagram 55 is yin, a broken line. When it is cast as old yin (a 6) it flips, and the hexagram becomes Hexagram 34, Great Power: Strength in the ascendant: thunder in heaven, and the discipline to use power only in what is right.

Read together, the reading moves from Abundance toward Great Power. The sun at noon: abundance at its height, with the certainty that noon does not last and the instruction not to grieve about it. Heaven below, thunder above: four strong lines rising, two yielding lines retreating above them. Great Power describes a time when strength is with you and growing, and the tradition's whole concern is what you do with 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 55 changing to 34 →

Line 2 in context

Love & relationships

You are not believed; do not argue, be true, and the truth reaches through. In love and relationships, Hexagram 55 reads: A high point: fullness of feeling, of shared life. Enjoy it without sadness that it will change. The lines warn about the curtain that can darken even noon: suspicion and misunderstanding at the height of things. Keep seeing each other clearly.

Career

You are not believed; do not argue, be true, and the truth reaches through. In career, Hexagram 55 reads: Peak influence and success. Use it decisively; the image is of judgements made and carried out while the light is strongest. Do not waste the noon in anxiety about the afternoon, and do not let the abundance isolate you from clear sight.

Money

You are not believed; do not argue, be true, and the truth reaches through. In money, Hexagram 55 reads: Prosperity at its height. Make the decisions that require it now. Do not grieve in advance for its passing, and do not let fullness breed the complacency that the lines describe as a darkening at noon.

A decision

You are not believed; do not argue, be true, and the truth reaches through. In decisions, Hexagram 55 reads: Decide now, at the height of clarity and resources. The reading favours decisive action in abundance and warns against delay, because noon passes. Act like the sun at midday.