58. Joy to 35. Progress

Changing lines

1. Line 1

   The first line, dynamic, shows the pleasure of inward harmony. There will be good fortune. Line one, dynamic in a dynamic place with no proper correlate above, is self-sufficient. He has as yet taken no action and there is therefore no cause for suspicion.

2. Line 2

   The second line, dynamic, shows the pleasure arising from inward stability. There will be good fortune. Occasion for repentance will disappear. The second line, by the rule of place, should be magnetic, but here is dynamic. Without a proper correlate above, and contiguous to the magnetic third line, he might be injuriously affected, and there would be cause for repentance. But the sincerity natural in his central position counteracts all this.

3. Line 5

   The fifth line, dynamic, shows its subject trusting in one who would injure him. The situation is perilous. The danger to line five is from the magnetic line six above, in whom he is represented as trusting. Possibly his own strength and sincerity of mind may be perverted into instruments of evil; but possibly they may operate beneficially. The correctness of his position seems to contradict his trusting of the line above, who can only injure him. On the contrary, it should keep him from doing so. The commentators have seen this, and say that the paragraph is intended by way of caution.

4. Line 6

   The sixth line, magnetic, shows the pleasure of its subject in leading and attracting others. The symbolism of line six is akin to that of three. Line three attracts others around herself for the sake of pleasure; the subject of this line leads them to follow herself in quest of it. The action of the hexagram should culminate and end in line five, but the subject has not yet understood the willpower by which the love of pleasure should be controlled.

The present judgment

Joy intimates that under its conditions there will be progress and attainment, but it will be advantageous to be firm and correct.

The later judgment

In Advance of Consciousness we see a prince who secures the tranquility of the people presented on that account with numerous horses by the king, and three times in a day received at interviews.

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