Hexagram 59 line 5: Dispersion, yang in the fifth place

What changes when line 5 moves

Line 5 of Hexagram 59 is yang, a solid line. When it is cast as old yang (a 9) it flips, and the hexagram becomes Hexagram 4, Youthful Folly: Inexperience seeking guidance: the learner must ask, and the teacher must not be asked twice for the same answer.

Read together, the reading moves from Dispersion toward Youthful Folly. Wind over water dissolving what has frozen: egotism, rigidity and division scattered, and people gathered again around what is sacred. A spring at the foot of a mountain: water that does not yet know where it is going. Youthful Folly is about not knowing, and about the proper relationship between the one who does not know and the one who does. 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 59 changing to 4 →

Line 5 in context

Love & relationships

Give people the idea they can gather around; say it clearly and at the right moment. In love and relationships, Hexagram 59 reads: Something frozen between you is ready to thaw. Dissolve your own hardness first: the pride, the grievance, the position you have been holding. Then gather again around what you share. The reading is favourable to reconciliation and to the large step afterwards.

Career

Give people the idea they can gather around; say it clearly and at the right moment. In career, Hexagram 59 reads: Breaking up factions, thawing a frozen team, dissolving the egotism that has separated people. The reading favours the leader who does this by gathering people around a shared purpose rather than by force, and it supports a large undertaking once the division is gone.

Money

Give people the idea they can gather around; say it clearly and at the right moment. In money, Hexagram 59 reads: Dispersing accumulated blockages: stuck capital, hoarded resources, rigid arrangements. The reading favours letting resources flow toward a shared purpose, and supports the big move once they do.

A decision

Give people the idea they can gather around; say it clearly and at the right moment. In decisions, Hexagram 59 reads: Choose the option that dissolves division and reunites people around something they hold in common. The reading supports crossing the great water after the ice breaks; decide in that order.