Song, nine in the fourth placeHexagram 6, line 4 · Song (Conflict) · changing to 59
The line
In plain wordsYou cannot win the case, so turn around and submit to what is right. Drop the urge to contend, settle down and stay true: good fortune.
The Image commentary on this line
復即命渝，安貞，不失也。
"Turn back and submit to what is right; change, and calmly stay true": nothing is lost.
The small Image commentary is the earliest explanation of the line texts. It usually explains a line from its position: where it stands, whether it holds the center, and which line answers it.
Verdict
吉Favorable. This text describes a good outcome. Act the way it says and the matter can succeed. The promise has a condition: keep to the right course.
How to read good fortune, misfortune, regret, humiliation and no blame →
Asking about work, love or money
- Work
- You cannot win this one, and you shouldn't fight it. Turn back and accept what should be accepted, let go of the urge to win, and settle into doing your part well. You lose nothing this way, and it is good.
- Love
- Having argued this far, admit that you were partly in the wrong too, drop the habit of competing, and come back to getting along. Do this, and you lose nothing.
- Money
- If this money can't be won, stop fighting for it. Turn back to the rules and to what is reasonable, set aside the wish to win, and calmly keep what is yours; you come out no worse for it.
This is how to read it when this is the only changing line. With several changing lines, first see which text governs; for the hexagram as a whole, see Song.
Line position
A yang line in a yin place: it is not in its proper place. Its partner is the first line, which is its opposite, so the two answer each other.
Fourth place: next to the ruler, a place of caution. Serve those above with care.
When you get this line
If this is the only changing line in your cast (three backs, old yang), this line is your answer. The primary hexagram is Song (Conflict); when this line changes it becomes Huan (Dispersion): hexagram 6 changing to 59.
Which text to read with several changing lines →
Resulting hexagram · Huan (Dispersion)
People's hearts, or the situation, have scattered and need to be drawn together again.