I Ching, Yijing or Zhou Yi
"Oracle of the moon": © 2000 LiSe
When Zhèn becomes Gěn, there is thunder in the mountains, long far rumbling. Mountain tames Thunder's impulsiveness, but together their voices reach far. When those two forces support you, your actions become powerful and focused. You often act behind the scenes, but that does not diminish their impact. You consider influences that others find not important, too small or vague, and that adds subtlety to your strategy.
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The middle line indicates the result. It is unchanging yin, this project will stay attractive, but also continue to absorb efforts, knowledge or resources, because its developing stage is not finished and not all possibilities have been explored. It still needs input and keeps doing so for the time being. It is too early to decide about a final direction, there will be no output yet.
But yin is the one who can bring about concrete results. Yin stays in the background and does the work. It is nurturing, defusing crises, monitoring the process, building up and rounding out.
This is the 'man' line, it can also be about you yourself, not only what you do.
Love for the work dissolves the effort.
Each line, active or at rest, summons one of the 8 trigrams as a Helper. For an activated line: telling you what you need - or about a problem area or something to avoid.
For a stationary line: this is what you already have or do or what you don't need. Often we just need a reminder of our abilities. Or it could be what you wish or fear - but will not happen.
Active lines are the helpers to change things. Stationary helpers are part of the core meaning, they are your soul talking. They reinforce the overall power of a reading.
Advice for the initiative:
Li, Fire, with her power to discern and create order.
Advice for the subject: Kun, Earth, with her ability to nurture and concretize.
Advice for the outcome:
Dui, Lake, with her ability to resonate and persuade, is lacking here or not needed. Yin remains Yin.