Transformation · lines 2 and 6
Great Achievements becomes Darkness
What this change means
Light sinks into the earth while the top line speaks of wide roads: an odd pairing. The top and second lines of Great Achievements move, Heaven below becomes Fire and the Mountain above becomes Earth, and the figure turns into 36 Darkness. The top line leads, promising favor and help from above. The second recalls the slipped axle strap: outside circumstances are holding you back. The resulting hexagram describes a dark time when you have to live alongside the wrong people, protect yourself, keep your integrity and not show your light openly. How do these fit? Your inner position is strong and supported, but the outer world isn't ready. Keep your talents quiet, don't expose your plans, and wait. The help from above is real; it protects you through the dark until better times come.
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 26 Great Achievements
Everything is in your favor right now; success is assured. You'll receive help from Heaven.
How wide the roads of heaven. Success.
- Line 2 of 26 Great Achievements
Wait until conditions are right to act, because outside circumstances are holding you back.
The axle strap slips from the cart.
- The judgment of 26 Great Achievements
It's a good moment to leave your comfort zone and take on new actions, beyond what you think you can do. Heaven favors unusual actions that will lead you to success, because you have the qualities needed.
Constancy is favorable. Not eating at home brings good fortune. It is favorable to cross the great river.
- The judgment of 36 Darkness
It's a dark time: circumstances force you to live alongside the wrong people. If you know how to protect yourself, hold on to your integrity, and go unnoticed, without openly showing your light and your talents, you'll stay safe until better times come. However hard they seem, hard times pass too.
Constancy in hardship is favorable.
The trigrams
The way back
36 Darkness → 26 Great Achievementslines 2 and 6
Other transformations of Great Achievements
- 52Abidinglines 1 and 2
- 4Immaturitylines 1 and 3
- 27Nourishmentlines 2 and 3
- 50The Vessel of Nourishmentlines 1 and 4
- 30The Flamelines 2 and 4
- 38Oppositeslines 3 and 4
- 57Gentlenesslines 1 and 5
- 37The Tribelines 2 and 5
- 61Inner Integritylines 3 and 5
- 1Activitylines 4 and 5
- 46Going Uplines 1 and 6
- 19Fleeting Successlines 3 and 6
- 34Great Manifestationlines 4 and 6
- 5Inactionlines 5 and 6
Make your own cast
The answer changes with the question. Toss the coins and see which lines move for you.