Hexagram 35 of 64
晋 jìn
Progress
离 (lí, Fire) above · 坤 (kūn, Earth) below
The Judgment 卦辞
The sun rises over the earth — steady, visible progress. You advance like light: be trusted, show your work, and even the skeptical will come around.
The Image 大象
The sun rises over the earth: progress. The wise person makes their bright virtue shine ever brighter.
The six lines 爻辞
Each line of 晋 has its own classical text. If a line in your cast is changing, its text is the heart of your reading.
Line 1 · 初六
Advancing, then pushed back. Stay steady — trust has not formed yet; give it room and there is no blame.
「晋如，摧如，贞吉。罔孚，裕无咎」
Line 2 · 六二
Advancing with worry in your heart — still good fortune. Great blessing comes from the queen mother.
「晋如，愁如，贞吉。受兹介福，于其王母」
Line 3 · 六三
The many trust you now. Regret dissolves in that permission.
「众允，悔亡」
Line 4 · 九四
Advancing like a timorous rodent — greedy and afraid at once. Steadiness itself is the danger here.
「晋如鼫鼠，贞厉」
Line 5 · 六五
Regret gone: forget the score of losses and wins. Just go — good fortune, nothing amiss.
「悔亡，失得勿恤，往吉，无不利」
Line 6 · 上九
Advancing with horns — useful only to set your own house in order. Sharp progress has its price.
「晋其角，维用伐邑，厉吉无咎，贞吝」
If you drew this in a reading
A favorable pattern. Among the sixty-four patterns, this one belongs to the favorable family: its core movement supports what you would do with it. Favorable does not mean automatic — the hexagram still asks you to hold up your end with steadiness and good faith.
In yes/no questions this hexagram leans yes — the pattern supports proceeding.
The trigrams give the flavor: 离 (Fire) above — clarity and clinging — insight, illumination, dependence on fuel — over 坤 (Earth) below — receptive devotion — nourishment, patience, carrying others. Where those two energies meet, 晋 is born.
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