Hexagram 35: Progress火地晉 · Jìn

• Upper trigram　Lí, Fire: light, clarity and attachment.
• Lower trigram　Kūn, Earth: receptivity, support and going with the flow.

The Judgment

The capable lord is honoured with many horses, and received three times in a single day.

康侯用錫馬蕃庶，晝日三接。

Our plain English rendering, with the Zhouyi original

Reading

The sun rises over the earth: advancement and recognition. Today suits showing the results of your effort, and accepting others' support graciously.

Something to do today

• Share one recent piece of progress with the people it concerns.

How a hexagram is cast

The three-coin method: toss three coins together, counting heads as 3 and tails as 2. The total, 6, 7, 8 or 9, gives one line; six tosses, recorded from the bottom up, make a hexagram. A 6 (old yin) or 9 (old yang) is a changing line, which turns this hexagram into another and shows where things are heading.