Hexagram 55 line 5: Abundance, yin in the fifth place

What changes when line 5 moves

Line 5 of Hexagram 55 is yin, a broken line. When it is cast as old yin (a 6) it flips, and the hexagram becomes Hexagram 49, Revolution: The moulting of a skin: a necessary, well-timed change that is believed only once it is done.

Read together, the reading moves from Abundance toward Revolution. The sun at noon: abundance at its height, with the certainty that noon does not last and the instruction not to grieve about it. Fire below, lake above: fire and water in conflict, each trying to destroy the other, like two daughters who cannot share a house. Revolution describes fundamental change, the kind that cannot be reformed into existence and must be made. 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 49 →

Line 5 in context

Love & relationships

Draw the capable close; their clarity is your abundance. 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

Draw the capable close; their clarity is your abundance. 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

Draw the capable close; their clarity is your abundance. 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

Draw the capable close; their clarity is your abundance. 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.