Bi, six in the second placeHexagram 8, line 2 · Bi (Alliance) · changing to 29
The line
In plain wordsThis closeness comes from the heart, not from a wish to attach yourself to someone useful. Stay true: good fortune.
The Image commentary on this line
比之自內，不自失也。
"Drawing close from within": one does not lose oneself.
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 are drawing close to your boss or a partner because you truly agree with them, not to curry favor. Keep your own character and your sense of proportion, neither servile nor arrogant; drawing close like this is good.
- Love
- Your kindness to the other person comes from the heart, and you want nothing for it. Keep treating them sincerely like this, but without trying to please, and without losing yourself for them; that is good.
- Money
- You go into partnership or work with someone because you trust them and get along, not to ride on their success. Hold to your own principles and limits and don't grovel; that is the right way to work together.
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 Bi.
Line position
A yin line in a yin place: it is in its proper place; it holds the center of its trigram. Its partner is the fifth line, which is its opposite, so the two answer each other.
Second place: the center of the lower trigram, a place of praise. Stay centered and yielding.
When you get this line
If this is the only changing line in your cast (three inscribed sides, old yin), this line is your answer. The primary hexagram is Bi (Alliance); when this line changes it becomes Kan (The Abyss): hexagram 8 changing to 29.
Which text to read with several changing lines →
Resulting hexagram · Kan (The Abyss)
One danger after another. This is a truly hard time.