Youthful Folly (Meng) for Career & Work: How to Ask, How to Read

Structure and Judgment

Hexagram 4 has Mountain (Gen) above and Water (Kan) below; the upper trigram's Earth controls the lower trigram's Water — the outer environment presses on the inner matter.

Original Judgment

亨。匪我求童蒙，童蒙求我。初噬告，再三渎，渎则不告。利贞。

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.