Xiaoxu, nine in the second placeHexagram 9, line 2 · Xiaoxu (Small Restraint) · changing to 37
The line
In plain wordsHand in hand with your companions, you return to the right path together. Good fortune.
The Image commentary on this line
牽復在中，亦不自失也。
"Drawn back", and in the center: he too does not lose himself.
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 closer to pressure and temptation now, and on your own you could easily be pulled off course. Join hands with colleagues who think as you do and bring the work back on track together. Holding each other up, no one loses their way, and that is good.
- Love
- When outside things pull at your love life, don't carry it alone. If you have a partner, go back hand in hand to what you both first felt; if you are single, let a trustworthy friend pull you back, keep hold of yourself, and all is well.
- Money
- Your rules about money have started to slip. If you cannot hold the line alone, bring in your family or partners to keep watch with you. Set the rules again, remind each other and hold each other back, and your money returns to the right path. That is a good thing.
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 Xiaoxu.
Line position
A yang line in a yin place: it is not in its proper place; it holds the center of its trigram. Its partner is the fifth line, which is also yang, so there is no answer from it.
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 backs, old yang), this line is your answer. The primary hexagram is Xiaoxu (Small Restraint); when this line changes it becomes Jiaren (The Family): hexagram 9 changing to 37.
Which text to read with several changing lines →
Resulting hexagram · Jiaren (The Family)
First put the affairs of the household (your own inner circle) in order.