EN (English)
⚋
One of the four line values
Young yin
少陰 · Shào Yīn
The stable yin line, numbered eight. Open, unmoving, and silent: present in the figure, absent from the spoken answer.
eight
stable line
yin
receptive
- Ritual number
- 8
- Drawn as
- A broken line
- Moves
- No
- In the second hexagram
- Stays as it is
- Line text read
- No
- Chinese
- 少陰 · Shào Yīn
What it means
An eight is yin that has not reached its limit. It is drawn as a broken line and it remains broken in the second hexagram.
Like the seven, it is a fixed condition rather than an event. It gives its trigram its yielding quality, it can be central or correct or in correspondence with another line, and it never has a line text read for it.
Sevens and eights together are the reason two people can cast the same primary hexagram and receive quite different readings. The figure is identical; which of its lines are alive is not.
In a reading
An eight marks a part of the situation that is open, receptive, or simply not moving. Read it as the terrain the answer is standing on rather than as advice.
If your cast produced only sevens and eights, nothing is in motion. The Judgment and the Image of the hexagram are the whole of the response.
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