Splitting Apart (Bo) for Career & Work: How to Ask, How to Read

Structure and Judgment

Hexagram 23 has Mountain (Gen) above and Earth (Kun) below; the upper and lower trigrams share one element — by the usual reading the upper trigram is the outer, the lower the inner, so the two forces in this situation move as one kind.

Original Judgment

不利有攸往。

How to ask

Ground career questions in one concrete matter with a time window — not "my whole career":

• 「Will I get this promotion?」
• 「Is now a good time to change jobs?」
• 「Can this project land within three months?」

How to read

With Liu Yao, the Official/Ghost line is the useful god for position and career, the Parent line stands for contracts, documents and the organization, and the world line is you: an Official/Ghost supported by month, day or moving lines favors the matter; one that is controlled or void signals obstacles and change. Two Official/Ghost lines in a job-switch question often mirror a choice between two positions.

With Mei Hua Yi Shu, ti is your side and yong the undertaking; their five-element relation sets with-or-against, the mutual hexagram shows hidden factors in the process, and the changed hexagram where the matter lands.

If your cast produces moving lines, set the priority by the classical rules — see the moving-lines guide on the main hexagram page.