Transformation · lines 1, 2, 3, and 6

Opposites becomes Success in Small Matters

睽 38 Opposites 小過 62 Success in Small Matters

Starting hexagram

Resulting hexagram

What this change means

Thunder on the mountain appears as four lines change, the first, second, third and sixth: the figure becomes 62 Success in Small Matters. The resulting hexagram's still lines lead. The fourth says action has to wait, though holding your ground and keeping your purpose doesn't, until the right moment arrives. The fifth says humility will help you find people willing to act for you. The resulting hexagram itself agrees: small achievements, not great things, and no reaching beyond your present means. In a time of opposition, this is a call to hold your ground quietly. Don't push your agenda. Keep your aims, be modest, and let others who are better placed take the steps you can't. Firmness and humility together tend to keep you on course.

What to read, in order

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

Line 4 of 62 Success in Small Matters, which stays still
It's not the time to act, but it is the time to stand firm, without straying from your purposes, until the time to act arrives.

No fault. Without going beyond, it meets it. Going is dangerous: be on guard. Do not act with lasting constancy.
Line 5 of 62 Success in Small Matters, which stays still
Your humility will help you find people who will act on your behalf.

Thick clouds, yet no rain, out of our western fields. The prince shoots a corded arrow and takes what is in the cave.
The judgment of 38 Opposites
You're in a situation of opposition: the people around you are different from you, yet you need to share with them. This means that what you can achieve for now is small. Even so, don't give in. It matters that both you and they keep your own nature and contribute from there to a shared project.

In small matters, good fortune.
Line 1 of 38 Opposites
Don't try to join with anyone by force; it's important to recognize differences, however large. Even if someone close to you pulls away for a while, let them go: they'll come back on their own.

Regret vanishes. The horse is lost: do not chase it; it comes back by itself. Seeing wicked people: no fault.
Line 2 of 38 Opposites
You can reach agreements with people like you whom you're not in touch with, using skillful means to bring those meetings about.

Meets their lord in a back lane. No fault.
Line 3 of 38 Opposites
Even if conditions turn against you and you're even attacked, staying true to yourself and to those you admire will lead you to success.

Sees the cart dragged back, the ox held fast; the driver, branded on the forehead, nose cut off. No beginning, but an end.
Line 6 of 38 Opposites
Isolation leads you into a moment of confusion where you don't recognize friends or allies; you're even about to attack them. But little by little the confusion clears, and joining with like-minded people will bring you success.

Alone in opposition: sees a pig covered in mud, a cart loaded with ghosts. First the bow is drawn; then it is set down. Not a raider: a wedding party. If on the way the rain comes, good fortune.
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

Below Lake Mountain

Above Fire Thunder

The way back

62 Success in Small Matters → 38 Opposites
lines 1, 2, 3, and 6

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