What this change means
Both lakes turn to Heaven when the third and top lines move, and soft water becomes pure, tireless strength. The top line leads: without real inner peace, easy entertainments can absorb you gradually until you're no longer steering your own life. The third line names the same danger from another side; pleasures that come seeking you, met without inner strength, can turn into addictions and pull you away from your purpose. The resulting hexagram, 1 Activity, speaks of new beginnings and of the qualities needed to carry a project through to success, like heaven moving with strength and never resting. This movement asks you to trade being carried for doing the carrying. Take the initiative back from whatever has been pulling you. Your strength is meant for your own work.
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 58 Inner Peace
If you haven't developed real inner peace, you're easy prey for shallow entertainments, which will win you over bit by bit until you lose yourself in them. Now you're only in the hands of fate; you have no control.
Joy that draws on.
- Line 3 of 58 Inner Peace
If you don't cultivate your inner strength and you let distractions carry you off, you may fall into addictions and drift from your purpose.
Joy that comes seeking. Misfortune.
- The judgment of 58 Inner Peace
You're in a time of calm and inner peace that lets you achieve great things. Spending time with people whose energy is like yours will nourish and recharge you to reach your aims. Still, don't lose sight of your goals, or you'll slide into inertia.
Success. Constancy is favorable.
- The judgment of 1 Activity
The creative principle. Activity. New beginnings, flourishing, and the qualities you need to carry any undertaking or project through to success.
Great success. Constancy is favorable.
The trigrams
The way back
1 Activity → 58 Inner Peacelines 3 and 6
Other transformations of Inner Peace
- 45Meetinglines 1 and 2
- 28Excesseslines 1 and 3
- 49Renewallines 2 and 3
- 29Waterlines 1 and 4
- 3Initial Obstacleslines 2 and 4
- 5Inactionlines 3 and 4
- 40Clearing Obstacleslines 1 and 5
- 51Shocklines 2 and 5
- 34Great Manifestationlines 3 and 5
- 19Fleeting Successlines 4 and 5
- 6Conflictlines 1 and 6
- 25Innocencelines 2 and 6
- 61Inner Integritylines 4 and 6
- 38Oppositeslines 5 and 6
Make your own cast
The answer changes with the question. Toss the coins and see which lines move for you.