Transformation · lines 5 and 6
Fleeting Success becomes Inner Integrity
What this change means
Wind moves over the lake as the fifth and top lines change. The top line leads: be generous in a time of power and plenty and help others improve, and your success continues. The fifth line describes how to lead in that time: choose able people, trust their judgment and leave them free to act, and the achievement holds.
The resulting hexagram, 61 Inner Integrity, says that when you're whole within, it shows outside, and your truth can move others toward great undertakings. Together they describe a leader whose generosity and trust come from real integrity, not strategy. People follow that. So keep your motives clean, give genuinely, and trust the people you work with. Watch for generosity that's really a bid for loyalty, or delegation that's really avoidance; others tend to sense the difference, and only the sincere version moves them.
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 5 of 19 Fleeting Success
Surrounding yourself with capable collaborators and respecting what they do, encouraging their autonomy, will bring you a stable achievement.
Drawing near with wisdom: what befits the great ruler. Good fortune.
- 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 61 Inner Integrity
When you're whole within, it shows on the outside, and you'll be able to do great things and to let your truth move others toward great undertakings.
Piglets and fish: good fortune. It is favorable to cross the great river. Constancy is favorable.
The trigrams
The way back
61 Inner Integrity → 19 Fleeting Successlines 5 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
- 27Nourishmentlines 2 and 6
- 26Great Achievementslines 3 and 6
- 38Oppositeslines 4 and 6
Make your own cast
The answer changes with the question. Toss the coins and see which lines move for you.