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Esperanza Blanco's practice

Meaning and interpretation

60 · Jie

Useful limits make an activity sustainable.

Symbols and details in the image

Notice six lines numbered from below: 3 solid and 3 broken. Which detail catches your attention first? Explore the image and connect that detail with your question: gestures, shapes and contrasts open up new associations.

Image order, from bottom to top:

  • Line 1: solid
  • Line 2: solid
  • Line 3: broken
  • Line 4: broken
  • Line 5: solid
  • Line 6: broken

60 · Jie: interpretation

Which duration, scope or spending ceiling should be agreed before starting?

A reading step by step

Try this example with changing lines: enter 9, 7, 8, 8, 7, 8 from bottom to top. Line 1 changes. Nine is changing yang and six is changing yin; seven and eight remain stable. Open the reading to follow the initial hexagram into the relating one.

  • Initial figure · 60 · Jie: Useful limits make an activity sustainable.
  • Related figure · 29 · Kan: Repeated uncertainty may need a stable review procedure.

History and inspiration

The sixty-four hexagrams combine six solid or broken lines, read from bottom to top. Each entry presents the figure and a contemporary reading of its themes. In a consultation, stable and changing lines connect the primary and relating hexagrams; your result keeps that sequence.

60 · Jie · six lines numbered from below: 3 solid and 3 broken