Transformation · lines 2 and 6
Fleeting Success becomes Nourishment
What this change means
Thunder below the mountain, the shape of an open mouth: the second and top lines move. The top line leads, asking you to be generous while you have power and abundance and to help others improve, since that's what sustains success. The second line gives you the steadiness for it: knowing that each situation is temporary, you can move through the phases trusting you have enough, without fear.
The resulting hexagram, 27 Nourishment, asks you to care for your physical and spiritual nourishment so you have what you need, and at the same time to help others grow. Success lies in giving and receiving. The fit is natural. Feed yourself well, share what's good, and let the knowledge that things change keep you from hoarding. Watch for giving until you're empty, or the opposite, holding back out of fear of the coming decline; both break the balance this movement asks you to keep.
What to read, in order
Marked ● is what Zhu Xi's tradition puts at the center for this number of moving lines.
- Line 6 of 19 Fleeting Success
Being generous in times of power and plenty, helping others improve, will keep your success going.
Drawing near with generosity. Good fortune, no fault.
- Line 2 of 19 Fleeting Success
Recognizing that every situation is impermanent will let you move through each phase not from fear, but trusting that you have what you need to get through it.
Drawing near together. Good fortune; nothing that is not favorable.
- 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.
- The judgment of 27 Nourishment
Right now you need to take care of your physical and spiritual nourishment, so you have the resources you need in each area, and at the same time help others grow through what you do. Success lies in giving and receiving: take in what is good for you and share it with those around you.
Constancy brings good fortune. Watching the jaws; seeking for oneself what fills the mouth.
The trigrams
The way back
27 Nourishment → 19 Fleeting Successlines 2 and 6
Other transformations of Fleeting Success
- 2Passivitylines 1 and 2
- 46Going Uplines 1 and 3
- 36Darknesslines 2 and 3
- 40Clearing Obstacleslines 1 and 4
- 51Shocklines 2 and 4
- 34Great Manifestationlines 3 and 4
- 29Waterlines 1 and 5
- 3Initial Obstacleslines 2 and 5
- 5Inactionlines 3 and 5
- 58Inner Peacelines 4 and 5
- 4Immaturitylines 1 and 6
- 26Great Achievementslines 3 and 6
- 38Oppositeslines 4 and 6
- 61Inner Integritylines 5 and 6
Make your own cast
The answer changes with the question. Toss the coins and see which lines move for you.