Hexagram 61 line 5: Inner Truth, yang in the fifth place

What changes when line 5 moves

Line 5 of Hexagram 61 is yang, a solid line. When it is cast as old yang (a 9) it flips, and the hexagram becomes Hexagram 41, Decrease: Less at the base to strengthen the top: a season of reduction that is fortunate when done with sincerity.

Read together, the reading moves from Inner Truth toward Decrease. Wind over the lake, an empty centre: sincerity so complete that it moves pigs and fishes, and crosses the great water. Lake below, mountain above: the lake at the foot of the mountain giving up its depth to the mountain's height. Decrease describes reduction: of resources, of expenditure, of passion, of what is below in order to serve what is above. 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 41 →

Line 5 in context

Love & relationships

Let your sincerity be what holds people together. 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

Let your sincerity be what holds people together. 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

Let your sincerity be what holds people together. 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

Let your sincerity be what holds people together. 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.