Transformation · line 2
What Lasts becomes Success in Small Matters
What this change means
Regret vanishes: the second line of What Lasts is short and reassuring. With it moving, the Wind below becomes Mountain, and thunder now sounds over a peak. The line says your enthusiasm and drive are larger right now than the circumstances around you, and if you keep them alive, the inertia will give way bit by bit and carry you toward success. The resulting hexagram, 62 Success in Small Matters, sets the scale of that progress. This isn't a moment for grand gestures, and reaching past your current means would scatter your effort. Put the two together and the advice is clear: keep your spirit high but your steps modest. Let your energy wear down resistance gradually, through small, well-chosen actions, rather than spending it all at once on something the moment can't hold.
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 32 What Lasts
Right now your enthusiasm and passion are greater than outside circumstances. Staying that way will gradually overcome the stillness and move you toward success.
Regret vanishes.
- 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.
- The judgment of 62 Success in Small Matters
This isn't a time for great things; it's a time for small achievements. Recognizing that will help you live in step with the moment. Trying to go beyond your present means and resources will lead you astray and waste your efforts.
Success. Constancy is favorable. Small things can be done, not great ones. The flying bird leaves its call behind: it is not fitting to rise, it is fitting to descend. Great good fortune.
The trigrams
The way back
62 Success in Small Matters → 32 What Lastsline 2
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Make your own cast
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