Pathfinder
Hexagram 10 Risk
The model of the moment: When you must take a risk in the face of powerful and dangerous forces, the quality of your behavior is critical to your success, and sometimes to your very survival. Though this time may be a cautiously optimistic one towards business ventures child, it is not necessarily auspicious for personal relationships. The course usually recommended for such times: Be sure you know the full extent of the risk you face, and its relevance to your larger goals, before making such challenges of fate. This time can be similar to walking a tightrope; exhilarating, but also dangerous. Here too, as in the example, a good sense of balance is essential. Be ready to make fast decisions. Don't allow circumstances to rattle you. Your composure, or lack of it, will have a bearing on the outcome.
Fixed (no changing lines);
This is a plateau process or event; the given model will hold true for an extended period of time. Attempts to manipulate events away from the present course could prove frustrating and fruitless, until destiny is satisfied. Consider the following as well as the above: You show signs of addiction to risk. Such a condition does not garner you the respect you may think it does. Instead, it makes you appear selfish, flighty, inconsistent, unreliable, and easily misled. Is it worth it?
Changing Lines:
1
You are safe for the moment. Continue as you originally planned.
2
Remaining free of entangling alliances and controversy allows you greater freedom of movement than many others enjoy. Good fortune is attracted to such measures.
3
Forceful efforts to gain a position you are not suited for has brought disaster. Though successful, you overstepped your bounds and the risk you courted caught up to you. In the resulting confusion another took control of events.
4
Anticipating obstacles and problems your plan might face will help bring on eventual success. Watch your every step when treading hazardous ground.
5
One must have the means to perform daily duties. Do you risk even your base of sustenance now? Though your present position has advantages and could develop more, stubbornness could yet be your downfall.
6
You are in need of learning to attain the greatest rewards. Examine your past deeds and conduct, and the results that came from them, to get clues on how to proceed now. Correcting mistakes and properly expanding upon those actions that brought success in the past will bring good fortune in the future.
When all lines are changing;
This is a good time to take risks. But success is by no means guaranteed. You will have to make your best possible judgments and hold tightly to your integrity. Unjustifiable bias in your decisions now could bring on misfortune.