Xiaoxu, nine in the fifth placeHexagram 9, line 5 · Xiaoxu (Small Restraint) · changing to 26
The line
In plain wordsWith sincerity you bind everyone firmly together, and you use your own strength to carry along the people on either side of you.
The Image commentary on this line
有孚攣如，不獨富也。
"There is sincerity, binding all together": he is not rich alone.
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. The text gives no verdict, but the picture it paints is a hopeful one. Act the way it describes and there will be something to gain.
How to read good fortune, misfortune, regret, humiliation and no blame →
Asking about work, love or money
- Work
- You have strength and a position, and you can bind the people around you together as one. Treat them with sincerity, use your own resources to carry everyone along, and don't keep the benefits to yourself; then everyone does well together with you.
- Love
- A true heart binds two people tightly together. Share your time, your energy and your good days generously with the other person, and look after the people close to them too. Don't think only of your own good, and the relationship holds steady.
- Money
- You have capital and you keep your word, so you can bring the people around you along to earn together. Share the gains fairly and don't keep them all for yourself; that is what keeps your partners of one mind with you.
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 yang place: it is in its proper place; it holds the center of its trigram. Its partner is the second line, which is also yang, so there is no answer from it.
Fifth place: the center of the upper trigram, the ruler's seat, a place of achievement. This is where things are decided.
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 Daxu (Great Restraint): hexagram 9 changing to 26.
Which text to read with several changing lines →
Resulting hexagram · Daxu (Great Restraint)
You have saved up plenty of capital. Time to take it out and use it.