Hexagram 35 for love
Hexagram 35 Advancing in love and relationships
Jin is the sun rising above the earth: brightness above, docility below, and the lower trigram's three yin lines rising together toward the light. The Judgment describes a prince received three times in a day — recognition, welcome, advancement in the open. For a relationship the hexagram speaks of a bond that is becoming visible and acknowledged, and of the attitude that makes acknowledgement possible: the Great Image's 'brighten your own bright virtue', being plainly what you are rather than manoeuvring.
The lower lines describe the early stages honestly. Line one is pushed back and not yet trusted, and is told to be generous rather than to push; line two is correct but lonely, and its blessing comes late and from above; line three is carried by the trust of others. The fourth line is the warning — someone clinging to a place in another's life without having earned it. The fifth is the hexagram's heart: affection that does not keep score. The top line turns its energy inward on its own household, which is where a long bond ends up anyway.
The hexagram in brief
The sun rising over the earth: progress. The capable prince is rewarded with horses and received three times in a day — advancement in the light.
Advance openly and brighten your own virtue; progress is steady when it is visible and deserved.
The judgment
晉：康侯用錫馬蕃庶，晝日三接。In Žin we see a prince who secures the tranquillity (of the people) presented on that account with numerous horses (by the king), and three times in a day received at interviews.
Which line changed?
A changing line sharpens the answer. Each line of 晉 Advancing has its own page:
- 初六Six at the beginningpressed back · not yet trusted · generosity
- 六二Six in the second placeadvancing in sorrow · the grandmother's blessing · central and correct
- 六三Six in the third placetrusted by all · moving upward together · regret vanishes
- 九四Nine in the fourth placethe marmot · greedy advance · out of place
- 六五Six in the fifth placegain and loss aside · the bright ruler · going forward
- 上九Nine at the topadvancing with horns · one's own city · not yet glorious
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Questions
- Is hexagram 35, Advancing, a good sign for love?
- Jin is the sun rising above the earth: brightness above, docility below, and the lower trigram's three yin lines rising together toward the light. The Judgment describes a prince received three times in a day — recognition, welcome, advancement in the open. For a relationship the hexagram speaks of a bond that is becoming visible and acknowledged, and of the attitude that makes acknowledgement possible: the Great Image's 'brighten your own bright virtue', being plainly what you are rather than manoeuvring.
- What does Hexagram 35, 晉 Advancing, mean?
- The sun rising over the earth: progress. The capable prince is rewarded with horses and received three times in a day — advancement in the light.
Chinese text: the received Zhouyi (Wuyingdian lineage). English: James Legge, The Yî King, Sacred Books of the East XVI, 1882 (public domain).