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Transformation · lines 1 and 3

What Lasts becomes A Subordinate Role

恆 32 What Lasts 歸妹 54 A Subordinate Role
Starting hexagram
Resulting hexagram

What this change means

The first and third lines move, and the Wind beneath the Thunder turns into a Lake: steady effort gives way to a position you don't control. The third line leads. It warns that when outside circumstances loom larger than your own projects, they take power over you, and inconsistency can bring embarrassment. The first line adds that you're only beginning in the right direction, so expecting great things now would be a mistake. The resulting hexagram, 54 A Subordinate Role, makes it concrete: for now you have to take second place, and personal initiative tends to fail. That doesn't mean giving up your aims. It means keeping them alive inside while you accept the role the moment gives you. Don't let frustration erode your purpose. Do what's asked well, keep the far end in view, and wait for a better position.

What to read, in order

Marked ● is what Zhu Xi's tradition puts at the center for this number of moving lines.

  1. Line 3 of 32 What Lasts

    If you let outside circumstances grow bigger than your dreams and projects, they'll end up gaining power over you.

    Not making one's virtue last; perhaps shame will follow. Constancy brings distress.

  2. Line 1 of 32 What Lasts

    Don't expect extraordinary achievements when you're only just starting to move in the right direction.

    Digging deep into duration. Even with constancy, misfortune. Nothing is favorable.

  3. The judgment of 32 What Lasts

    This moment asks you for action, not stillness. It asks you to have clear goals to head toward and to act in line with them. That way you'll achieve things, and your achievements will keep growing and will last.

    Success. No fault. Constancy is favorable. It is favorable to have somewhere to go.

  4. The judgment of 54 A Subordinate Role

    You're in a situation where you have to take second place to others; any personal initiative will lead to failure. Recognizing the moment and acting in keeping with it is all you can do until things change and you're in a better position.

    Setting out brings misfortune. Nothing is favorable.

The trigrams

Below Wind Lake
Above Thunder stays

The way back

54 A Subordinate Role → 32 What Lasts
lines 1 and 3

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