Jin · Progress

The meaning

What the name means Jin is advancing, rising, like the sun coming up.

The picture The sun rising over the ground, the light growing bit by bit.

The sense of the whole The whole hexagram is about going forward smoothly. When you are seen and affirmed, stay modest and open-handed and work with others. As the light grows brighter, the person has to grow steadier.

In plain words: what this hexagram says

Like the sun rising over the horizon. A chance to be seen and recognised has come; keep going forward, gentle and modest.

The upper trigram is Fire and the lower is Earth: Fire above, Earth below. When you read it, first picture the two together as a scene, then set it against the original below. The plain words speak only of stance and do not foretell.

The judgement

康侯用錫馬蕃庶，晝日三接。

The image

明出地上，晉；君子以自昭明德。

The six lines

From the bottom up, the first line is the lowest. When you cast this hexagram and a line is changing, read the matching one. The original is classical Chinese.

1. 初六晉如摧如，貞吉。罔孚，裕無咎。
2. 六二晉如愁如，貞吉。受茲介福，於其王母。
3. 六三眾允，悔亡。
4. 九四晉如鼫鼠，貞厲。
5. 六五悔亡，失得勿恤，往吉無不利。
6. 上九晉其角，維用伐邑，厲吉無咎，貞吝。

To learn how to read a hexagram, see "How to read a hexagram"; for changing lines, see "Changing lines and the resulting hexagram".