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Hexagram 35 · Jìn

Progress

晉 · jìn
The sun rises; advance is met with reward.
Lí · Fire
above
Kūn · Earth
below

Core Meaning

The Judgment: Progress: the able prince is honored with horses in great number, and received three times in a single day.
The Image: The sun rises over the earth. So the wise person brightens their own bright virtue.

The sun rising over the earth, climbing clear of the horizon: Jìn is progress — advance that is recognized, rewarded, and welcomed from above, like the able prince honored three times in a day.

Its brightness carries a condition: advance by shining, not by scheming. The hamster's stealthy progress, the fourth line warns, cannot survive daylight. Brighten your own bright virtue, and let visibility come from clarity rather than campaigning.

Progress in Your Question

Love & Relationships

Jìn is a warm, ascending sign for relationships: growing closeness, acceptance, love moving into daylight — meeting the family, going public, deepening openly. Its counsel for setbacks is patient: progress turned back at the threshold remains progress; stay calm and generous. Advance by warmth, never by maneuvering.

Career & Money

Professionally, Jìn is the recognition season: promotion, expanding mandate, work finally seen. Its ethics of ascent are precise — rise by visible merit, not hamster-stealth; take neither gain nor loss too much to heart; and reserve aggressive horns strictly for your own failings. Sunrise needs no press campaign.

Personal Growth

Inwardly, Jìn is self-brightening: the deliberate cultivation of your own clarity, like the sun doing the one thing suns do. Progress here is measured against yesterday's self. Even sorrowful advance, its second line promises, is still advance — keep climbing gently, and the blessing arrives through unexpected, gentle channels.

The Six Lines

A line speaks only when it is a changing line in your own casting.

Line 1
Advancing, yet turned back at the threshold: hold steadfast, good fortune. If trust is withheld, stay calm and generous — no mistake.
Line 2
Advancing in sorrow, unrecognized: steadfastness brings good fortune. Great blessing comes through the gentle source one descends from.
Line 3
All are of one mind; the many carry one forward. Regret vanishes.
Line 4
Advancing like a hoarding hamster, by stealth and accumulation: steadfastness in this brings danger.
Line 5
Regret vanishes. Take neither gain nor loss to heart; press on. Undertakings bring good fortune.
Line 6
Advancing with lowered horns is permitted only against one's own failings. Awareness of the danger keeps it blameless; as a habit, it humiliates.

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