Transformation · lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6
Inner Integrity becomes Success in Small Matters
What this change means
Every line moves: the lake becomes a mountain, the wind becomes thunder, and inner trust turns into 62 Success in Small Matters. With all six lines changing, the resulting hexagram carries the reading. Big undertakings aren't favored now; small achievements are. Accepting that keeps you in tune with the moment, while reaching past what your current means allow tends to scatter your effort and lead you off course. That's a big shift from a starting point that spoke of great undertakings. The integrity remains, but its scale changes. Be true in small things. Do the modest task carefully and honestly. Don't stretch for what's out of reach now. Reverence in action, restraint in spending: small excesses of care, not of ambition, are what the time favors.
What to read, in order
Marked ● is what Zhu Xi's tradition puts at the center for this number of moving lines.
- 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 judgment of 61 Inner Integrity
When you're whole within, it shows on the outside, and you'll be able to do great things and to let your truth move others toward great undertakings.
Piglets and fish: good fortune. It is favorable to cross the great river. Constancy is favorable.
- Line 1 of 61 Inner Integrity
If behind what you do there's a wish to manipulate others, your intentions will be exposed.
Being ready: good fortune. If there is something else, no ease.
- Line 2 of 61 Inner Integrity
Your inner integrity will draw kindred people who are willing to be generous with you.
A crane cries in the shade; its chick answers. I have a fine cup: you and I will drain it together.
- Line 3 of 61 Inner Integrity
If your security rests on other people's approval and acceptance, you'll ride emotional ups and downs and won't fully enjoy what you gain.
Meets an adversary: now drumming, now stopping, now weeping, now singing.
- Line 4 of 61 Inner Integrity
It's a time to lean on spiritual forces to strengthen your inner integrity and head confidently toward your goal, without looking back.
The moon is nearly full. One horse of the pair is lost. No fault.
- Line 5 of 61 Inner Integrity
You have an inner strength that lets you draw others toward a shared well-being and shared goals.
There is sincere trust, holding fast like links in a chain. No fault.
- Line 6 of 61 Inner Integrity
If your inner strength rests only on words, you won't have the power to rally people that you need to reach your goals.
A bird's cry climbs to heaven. Even with constancy, misfortune.
The trigrams
The way back
62 Success in Small Matters → 61 Inner Integritylines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6
Make your own cast
The answer changes with the question. Toss the coins and see which lines move for you.