Ding, six in the fifth placeHexagram 50, line 5 · Ding (The Cauldron) · changing to 44
The line
In plain wordsThe cauldron is fitted with yellow ears and a metal bar. You yourself are open-minded and centered, and you have strong people to lift you up. Stay true; it is favorable.
The Image commentary on this line
鼎黃耳，中以為實也。
"The cauldron has yellow ears": the center is taken as its substance.
The small Image commentary is the earliest explanation of the line texts. It usually explains a line from its position: where it stands, whether it holds the center, and which line answers it.
Verdict
吉Favorable. This text describes a good outcome. Act the way it says and the matter can succeed. The promise has a condition: keep to the right course.
How to read good fortune, misfortune, regret, humiliation and no blame →
Asking about work, love or money
- Work
- You hold a key position and are willing to listen with an open mind, and capable, strong-minded people around you are ready to help hold things up. Put them to real use, keep to fairness and measure yourself, and the work can be lifted and carried steadily.
- Love
- You are modest and don't go to extremes, which suits you to leaning on each other with someone reliable who takes responsibility. Be willing to let the other person help you, keep your sincerity and your sense of measure, and going on this way is good.
- Money
- You know where you stand and you aren't greedy, and you have knowledgeable, trustworthy people to advise you. Listen to them and keep to the proper path: let money come in by the front door, and spend what you spend on real needs.
This is how to read it when this is the only changing line. With several changing lines, first see which text governs; for the hexagram as a whole, see Ding.
Line position
A yin line in a yang place: it is not in its proper place; it holds the center of its trigram. Its partner is the second line, which is its opposite, so the two answer each other.
Fifth place: the center of the upper trigram, the ruler's seat, a place of achievement. This is where things are decided.
When you get this line
If this is the only changing line in your cast (three inscribed sides, old yin), this line is your answer. The primary hexagram is Ding (The Cauldron); when this line changes it becomes Gou (Encounter): hexagram 50 changing to 44.
Which text to read with several changing lines →
Resulting hexagram · Gou (Encounter)
A person or a matter you run into unexpectedly; do not get deeply involved lightly.