Hexagram 61 line 6: Inner Truth, yang in the sixth place

What changes when line 6 moves

Line 6 of Hexagram 61 is yang, a solid line. When it is cast as old yang (a 9) it flips, and the hexagram becomes Hexagram 60, Limitation: Water in a lake with a bank: limits that give form and save strength, provided they are not galling.

Read together, the reading moves from Inner Truth toward Limitation. Wind over the lake, an empty centre: sincerity so complete that it moves pigs and fishes, and crosses the great water. Lake below, water above: a lake that holds only so much, and overflows past its limit. Limitation describes measure: the boundaries, rules and economies that give a life or an undertaking its shape. 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 60 →

Line 6 in context

Love & relationships

Do not let your words fly higher than your substance; the crow is heard and the bird cannot follow. 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

Do not let your words fly higher than your substance; the crow is heard and the bird cannot follow. 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

Do not let your words fly higher than your substance; the crow is heard and the bird cannot follow. 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

Do not let your words fly higher than your substance; the crow is heard and the bird cannot follow. 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.