Hexagram 60 line 2: Limitation, yang in the second place

What changes when line 2 moves

Line 2 of Hexagram 60 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 Limitation toward Difficulty at the Beginning. Water in a lake with a bank: limits that give form and save strength, provided they are not galling. 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 60 changing to 3 →

Line 2 in context

Love & relationships

The time to hold back has passed; go out. In love and relationships, Hexagram 60 reads: Boundaries, agreed and kept: what each of you needs, what each of you will not do, how much is enough. The reading favours limits that both of you accept and warns against ones that gall. The right measure makes the relationship strong at the joints.

Career

The time to hold back has passed; go out. In career, Hexagram 60 reads: Discipline and economy: the scope defined, the hours set, the standard fixed. The reading favours clear limits that people can work within, and warns against constraints so tight that they break the people they were meant to shape.

Money

The time to hold back has passed; go out. In money, Hexagram 60 reads: Budget. The reading is for thrift and measure, limits set deliberately and kept. It warns against both extravagance and a stinginess so severe it becomes its own harm. Find the proportion.

A decision

The time to hold back has passed; go out. In decisions, Hexagram 60 reads: Choose the option with clear, bearable limits. Decide how much is enough before you decide anything else. The reading is against open-ended commitments and against ones so restrictive they cannot be kept.