Transformation · lines 3, 4, and 6
Wealth becomes Fleeting Success
What this change means
Earth draws near over the lake: three lines move and the great possession becomes a good season with an end in sight. 14 Wealth reminds you that great possession lasts only when it's tended by kindness and shared beyond yourself. 19 Fleeting Success describes a coming time of luck and well-being that will last only a limited while, after which conditions change. It asks you to read the signs and take precautions before the decline, which won't avoid it but will lessen its effects. In balance, enjoy the prosperity fully, and prepare. Put something aside. Strengthen relationships that will hold when times are lean. Let generosity extend your good fortune into others' lives, where it tends to come back as support. Ending a good season prepared is wiser than pretending it won't end.
What to read, in order
Marked ● is what Zhu Xi's tradition puts at the center for this number of moving lines.
- The judgment of 14 Wealth
A time of abundance and prosperity, both inner and outer. It's important to keep your character centered and to cultivate good deeds and generosity, so that this wealth lasts and reaches others.
Great success.
- The judgment of 19 Fleeting Success
A period of luck, fortune and well-being is coming. Make the most of it, because it will last only eight months; after that, conditions will change. If you can pay attention, read the signs and take care and precautions before the decline arrives, you won't avoid it, but you will lessen its effects while circumstances change.
Great success. Constancy is favorable. When the eighth month comes, misfortune.
- Line 3 of 14 Wealth
Greed, or using wealth only for your own benefit, will bring difficulties and loss. Generosity opens new possibilities.
The prince makes offerings to the Son of Heaven. The petty person cannot.
- Line 4 of 14 Wealth
It's important not to let envy get the better of you: look at the wealth you have and be grateful for it.
It does not flaunt its abundance. No fault.
- Line 6 of 14 Wealth
Heaven grants you blessings; everything is favorable right now.
Heaven itself protects it. Good fortune. Nothing that is not favorable.
The trigrams
The way back
19 Fleeting Success → 14 Wealthlines 3, 4, and 6
Other transformations of Wealth
- 35Advancelines 1, 2, and 3
- 52Abidinglines 1, 2, and 4
- 4Immaturitylines 1, 3, and 4
- 27Nourishmentlines 2, 3, and 4
- 33Leaving Behindlines 1, 2, and 5
- 6Conflictlines 1, 3, and 5
- 25Innocencelines 2, 3, and 5
- 57Gentlenesslines 1, 4, and 5
- 37The Tribelines 2, 4, and 5
- 61Inner Integritylines 3, 4, and 5
- 62Success in Small Matterslines 1, 2, and 6
- 40Clearing Obstacleslines 1, 3, and 6
- 51Shocklines 2, 3, and 6
- 46Going Uplines 1, 4, and 6
- 36Darknesslines 2, 4, and 6
- 28Excesseslines 1, 5, and 6
- 49Renewallines 2, 5, and 6
- 58Inner Peacelines 3, 5, and 6
- 5Inactionlines 4, 5, and 6
Make your own cast
The answer changes with the question. Toss the coins and see which lines move for you.