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Moving Lines
Moving Lines
Moving lines (or changing lines, old lines) are the lines of a Yijing hexagram that stand at the threshold of their own transformation — a yang line at the point of becoming yin, or a yin line at the point of becoming yang. In the yarrow-stalk or three-coin methods of casting, the moving lines are those with the numerical values 6 (old yin, on the verge of becoming yang) and 9 (old yang, on the verge of becoming yin), as distinct from the stable 7 (young yang) and 8 (young yin).
The moving lines carry special interpretive weight: their specific line-statements are read as the lines most directly addressed to the situation, and when they transform, they generate a second hexagram — the configuration toward which the present situation is moving. The practice of reading first-hexagram-plus-moving-lines-plus-second-hexagram is the diachronic dimension of Yijing divination, distinct from the synchronic reading of a single fixed configuration. Jung‘s foreword to the Wilhelm-Baynes [[i-ching-wilhelm-baynes|I Ching]] treats the moving lines as the locus where synchronicity most visibly operates. See hexagram.