Master Road · Essentials
Read what the board already shows.
Six lessons. Find the scene, both sides, the role you care about, and the change already moving through it.
Lesson 03 · Essentials
Find the Role
Every line represents someone or something. Your question tells you which role becomes the Focus.
You can now see how the lines affect one another. The next step is to know what each line stands for in real life: money, work, people, rules, or results. This lesson helps you find the one line that answers your question—the Focus.
Each line also represents part of the scene.
Its role tells you whether it stands for a person, resource, rule, pressure, or result.
A line has an element, but it also represents someone or something in the scene. Bring one clear question to the board, find the role that matches what you care about, and make that line your Focus. The reading will show what supports it, controls it, drains it, or changes it.
What supports, protects, teaches, or authorises you.
Parents, elders, leaders, teachers, shelter, information, documents, contracts and certificates.Those who stand on your level—helping, sharing, or competing.
Siblings, friends, colleagues, partners, rivals, shared resources, division and competition.What you produce, express, solve, or use to release pressure.
Children, ideas, work output, solutions, creativity, pleasure, recovery and relief.Resources and goals you can pursue, manage, spend, or possess.
Money, budgets, assets, revenue, property, returns, supplies and material support.What sets rules, gives responsibility, or places pressure on you.
Jobs, positions, authority, deadlines, duties, institutions, risk, scrutiny and constraints.What you ask decides where you start.
Choose one Focus. Do not read all six rows equally.
ExampleAsking about a budget? Start with the line marked Wealth.
Question → role → line
Find Wealth before reading the budget.
The relation tells you what the line represents. Its element will tell you how it acts.
The question turns one row into your Focus.
- 1Question — Will the project budget stay manageable?
- 2Choose the role — A budget is money and a managed resource, so use 💵 Wealth.
- 3Find the line — In the Original Hexagram, Wealth is Line 4 · ⚔️酉·You.
- 4Stop here for now — You have found the part of the board that represents the budget. The next lesson adds both sides.
Check what you can read.
Answer in one sentence, then open the row.
1Which role do you start with for a contract?Check
Parents—documents, protection, authority and formal approval.
2Which role do you start with for a budget?Check
Wealth—money, assets and resources you manage.
3Where is the budget in this example?Check
Line 4 · Wealth · ⚔️酉·You in the Original Hexagram. No Self comparison is needed yet.