Hexagram 61 line 3: Inner Truth, yin in the third place

What changes when line 3 moves

Line 3 of Hexagram 61 is yin, a broken line. When it is cast as old yin (a 6) it flips, and the hexagram becomes Hexagram 9, Small Taming: Small restraint on large power: dense clouds, no rain yet, and only gentle influence available.

Read together, the reading moves from Inner Truth toward Small Taming. Wind over the lake, an empty centre: sincerity so complete that it moves pigs and fishes, and crosses the great water. Heaven below, wind above: a great force held back by something gentle. Small Taming describes a time when you cannot act decisively because your means are small relative to the situation, and the correct response is gentle, persistent influence rather than force. 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 61 changing to 9 →

Line 3 in context

Love & relationships

If your steadiness rises and falls with another person, your centre is not yours; find it. In love and relationships, Hexagram 61 reads: The reading is about trust: complete sincerity, an open centre, and the influence that has on the other person. Say what is true, without agenda. The lines warn against sincerity that depends on the other's response, and against confidence in the wrong person.

Career

If your steadiness rises and falls with another person, your centre is not yours; find it. In career, Hexagram 61 reads: Influence through honesty and openness rather than position. People are moved by someone whose centre they can see into. The reading supports large undertakings founded on trust and warns against the confidence that is only ambition.

Money

If your steadiness rises and falls with another person, your centre is not yours; find it. In money, Hexagram 61 reads: Dealings founded on trust, transparently. The reading is favourable to ventures built on sincere agreement and warns against trusting the wrong party, which the fifth and sixth lines describe.

A decision

If your steadiness rises and falls with another person, your centre is not yours; find it. In decisions, Hexagram 61 reads: Decide from your own inner truth, with an open mind and no prejudice. The reading supports the large decision when it rests on sincerity, and it asks you to examine whether your confidence is real or merely wishful.