What this change means
The two central lines move, the second and fifth, and What Lasts turns inside out into 31 Attraction: thunder and wind become a lake resting on a mountain. The fifth line leads. Your results now depend on boldness and on openness to new paths, and steadiness of character brings good fortune where it fits the role. The second line adds that your enthusiasm is stronger than your circumstances, and that keeping it alive lets regret fade and the stillness yield. The resulting hexagram says good results come to the extent that you stay open and receptive, so that supportive people can come close. So your passion and your boldness don't need to push. Let them make you approachable. Open the door to new people and ideas, and the energy you carry tends to draw in exactly the help it needs.
What to read, in order
Marked ● is what Zhu Xi's tradition puts at the center for this number of moving lines.
- Line 5 of 32 What Lasts
Right now your achievements will depend on your ability to be bold and open yourself to new paths.
Making one's virtue last, with constancy. For the wife, good fortune; for the husband, misfortune.
- 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 31 Attraction
You'll get good results to the extent that you stay open and receptive, which lets people come close who will support you and help you get there, generously and without self-interest.
Success. Constancy is favorable. Taking a wife brings good fortune.
The trigrams
The way back
31 Attraction → 32 What Lastslines 2 and 5
Other transformations of What Lasts
- 55Abundancelines 1 and 2
- 54A Subordinate Rolelines 1 and 3
- 16Passionlines 2 and 3
- 11Well-Beinglines 1 and 4
- 15Simplicitylines 2 and 4
- 7The Armylines 3 and 4
- 43Overflowinglines 1 and 5
- 47Overwhelmedlines 3 and 5
- 48Right Actionlines 4 and 5
- 14Wealthlines 1 and 6
- 56The Travelerlines 2 and 6
- 64Transitionlines 3 and 6
- 18Loss, Then Gainlines 4 and 6
- 44Lack of Firmnesslines 5 and 6
Make your own cast
The answer changes with the question. Toss the coins and see which lines move for you.