Hexagram 62 line 2: Small Excess, yin in the second place

What changes when line 2 moves

Line 2 of Hexagram 62 is yin, a broken line. When it is cast as old yin (a 6) it flips, and the hexagram becomes Hexagram 32, Duration: What lasts: the marriage after the courtship, movement that renews itself, constancy with a direction.

Read together, the reading moves from Small Excess toward Duration. The bird that should not fly too high: a time for small things, done with extra care, and for staying low. Wind below, thunder above: the two that always move together. Where Influence is the courtship, Duration is the marriage: the enduring union, the long practice, the thing that lasts because it keeps moving in a consistent direction. 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 62 changing to 32 →

Line 2 in context

Love & relationships

Deal with whoever is available; do not insist on the top. In love and relationships, Hexagram 62 reads: Small things, done with extra care: the gesture, the apology, the attention to detail. Not the grand declaration. The reading favours modesty and warns against flying high; the bird that climbs now is caught in the net.

Career

Deal with whoever is available; do not insist on the top. In career, Hexagram 62 reads: Attend to the details and keep a low profile. Great initiatives are not favoured. Be a little more conscientious than usual in conduct and spending, and let the small, well-done things accumulate.

Money

Deal with whoever is available; do not insist on the top. In money, Hexagram 62 reads: Thrift beyond the ordinary. Small, careful economies rather than large plays. The reading rules out the big move and rewards attention to the details of the accounts.

A decision

Deal with whoever is available; do not insist on the top. In decisions, Hexagram 62 reads: Choose the small, careful option and decline the large one. The reading is explicit: small things may be done, great things may not. Decide accordingly.