EN (English)
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One of the four line values
Old yin
老陰 · Lǎo Yīn
The moving yin line, numbered six. Drawn broken, carrying a line text, and already turning into its opposite.
six
moving line
yin at its limit
transformation
- Ritual number
- 6
- Drawn as
- A broken line
- Moves
- Yes
- In the second hexagram
- Becomes its opposite
- Line text read
- Yes
- Chinese
- 老陰 · Lǎo Yīn
What it means
A six is yin that has run to the end of its range and is therefore reversing. It appears broken in the first hexagram and solid in the second, and its line text is part of your answer.
The classic labels its yin line texts with this number: "six at the beginning", "six in the second place", and so on through the book. Hexagram 2 adds a text used when all six lines are moving sixes, which is the only place the oracle speaks about a wholly transforming figure.
Sixes are the rarest outcome under yarrow-stalk divination, which does not weight the four results equally. Three-coin casting flattens the odds, and this difference between the two methods is old, real, and still argued about.
In a reading
When a line comes up as a six, read its text. It usually describes something yielding, receptive or latent that has gone as far as it can in that direction and is about to firm up.
A hexagram with sixes in it is describing a situation where softness is turning into structure, which is often a better piece of news than it first sounds.
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