Transformation · lines 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6
Loss, Then Gain becomes Inner Peace
What this change means
Lake joins lake as five lines move and only the second stays as it was. That still line of 58 Inner Peace carries the reading. It asks you to take great care over the company you keep and the activities you choose, because getting drawn into worldly things without cultivating your inner life will lead you away from your goals. The resulting hexagram describes calm and inner peace, and time with people whose energy matches yours, as long as you don't drift into inertia. After repairing a loss, a pleasant season can arrive, and with it a temptation to coast. Enjoy it, but choose wisely. Keep tending your inner life alongside the good times. The calm you've earned is worth protecting from distractions that slowly pull you back toward the old mistakes.
What to read, in order
Marked ● is what Zhu Xi's tradition puts at the center for this number of moving lines.
- Line 2 of 58 Inner Peace, which stays still
Take great care over whom you spend time with and what activities you choose, because if you let yourself be drawn into worldly things without cultivating your inner life, you'll stray from your goals.
Joy with trust. Good fortune. Regret vanishes.
- The judgment of 18 Loss, Then Gain
You've made mistakes that have brought you into decline; still, admitting it and making the corrections needed will lead you back to success. Take time to reflect on what caused the loss and, once you've acted, give success time to arrive.
Great success. It is favorable to cross the great river. Three days before the first day, three days after the first day.
- Line 1 of 18 Loss, Then Gain
The loss came from being too rigid and wanting to do things the traditional way. If you can be flexible and innovate, you'll succeed.
Setting right what the father spoiled. There is a son; the late father is left without fault. Danger; in the end, good fortune.
- Line 3 of 18 Loss, Then Gain
Acting too rigidly in the past has led you to loss, but holding on to that rigidity to fix it won't help either.
Setting right what the father spoiled. A little regret; no great fault.
- Line 4 of 18 Loss, Then Gain
If you show a weak character and keep letting stronger personalities lead you, you won't succeed.
Indulging what the father spoiled. Going on: distress.
- Line 5 of 18 Loss, Then Gain
If you're aware of your weaknesses and vulnerable spots and look for helpers to support you there, you'll gain success and recognition.
Setting right what the father spoiled. It wins praise.
- Line 6 of 18 Loss, Then Gain
If you have high goals, beyond purely personal interests, and let them drive you, you'll succeed.
Serving neither kings nor lords; holding one's own work high.
- The judgment of 58 Inner Peace
You're in a time of calm and inner peace that lets you achieve great things. Spending time with people whose energy is like yours will nourish and recharge you to reach your aims. Still, don't lose sight of your goals, or you'll slide into inertia.
Success. Constancy is favorable.
The trigrams
The way back
58 Inner Peace → 18 Loss, Then Gainlines 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6
Other transformations of Loss, Then Gain
Make your own cast
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