Hexagram 35
Clear Ascent
jìn
Reading it as a decision
Fire rising over open ground gives this hexagram its picture: the sun clearing the horizon in full view, nothing left to obscure it. The guaci describes a figure being welcomed and rewarded repeatedly in a single day — not a single lucky break but a run of recognition that builds on itself. As a situation, it marks a moment when visibility and standing are moving in your favor, and the people who matter are already paying attention.
Classical line texts here lean favorable, and this reads as a position worth staying in rather than one to second-guess. If you're weighing whether to put yourself forward — for a role, a pitch, a promotion, a piece of work you've been sitting on — the signal favors stepping into the visibility rather than deferring it. The more common error at this point isn't overreach, it's underselling: holding back out of caution when the opening is already there to take.
The classical text
Judgment (卦辭)
晉，康侯用錫馬蕃庶，晝日三接。
A trusted lord is granted many horses as reward, received in audience three times in a single day.
The six lines (爻辭)
初六：晉如，摧如，貞吉。罔孚，裕，無咎。
Advancing, then pushed back; staying firm is fortunate. Trust not yet given, but ease remains, no blame.
六二：晉如，愁如，貞吉。受茲介福于其王母。
Advancing while anxious; staying firm is fortunate — she receives a great blessing from her royal grandmother.
六三：眾允，悔亡。
The multitude gives its trust, and regret disappears.
九四：晉如碩鼠，貞厲。
Advancing like a big rat sneaking forward — staying firm here is dangerous.
六五：悔亡，失得勿恤，往吉，無不利。
Regret disappears; don't fret over gain or loss — moving forward is fortunate, nothing unfavorable.
上九：晉其角，維用伐邑，厲，吉，無咎，貞吝。
Advancing to the horns, used only to strike a town — danger, then fortune, no blame, though persistence brings regret.
This is a general reference, not a live reading — it doesn't know your situation. iYarrow casts a fresh hexagram for the actual question you're weighing.
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