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One of the four line values
Young yang
少陽 · Shào Yáng
The stable yang line, numbered seven. Solid, unmoving, and silent: it shapes the hexagram without speaking in the reading.
seven
stable line
yang
steady
- Ritual number
- 7
- Drawn as
- A solid line
- Moves
- No
- In the second hexagram
- Stays as it is
- Line text read
- No
- Chinese
- 少陽 · Shào Yáng
What it means
A seven is yang that has not reached its limit. It is drawn as a solid line and it stays solid in the second hexagram, if there is one.
Stable lines do most of the work in any reading and get none of the attention, because the oracle's spoken answer comes from the moving lines. A seven contributes its strength to the trigram it sits in, helps determine whether the figure is balanced, correct and central, and then keeps quiet.
That silence is informative. Part of reading a cast well is noticing which parts of the situation are not in play: what is settled, what is holding steady, what you are not being asked about. In a hexagram with a single moving line, the other five lines are the fixed conditions the answer assumes.
In a reading
You never read a seven's line text, because the reading takes its text from moving lines only. What a seven tells you is structural: this part of the situation is firm and is not the question.
In a cast with no moving lines at all, every line is a seven or an eight, and you read the Judgment and Image of the single hexagram and nothing else.
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