Decrease (Sun) for Career & Work: How to Ask, How to Read

Structure and Judgment

Hexagram 41 has Mountain (Gen) above and Lake (Dui) below; the upper trigram's Earth feeds the lower trigram's Metal — outer forces are nourishing the inner matter.

Original Judgment

有孚，元吉，无咎，可贞，利有攸往。曷之用，二簋可用享。

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.