Tai, six in the fifth placeHexagram 11, line 5 · Tai (Peace) · changing to 5
The line
In plain wordsKing Yi married his younger sister to a subject. Holding a high position yet able to set aside your pride and cooperate with a capable person below you: there is blessing, great good fortune.
The Image commentary on this line
以祉，元吉。中以行願也。
"This brings blessing and supreme good fortune": from the center he carries out his wish.
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 in a high place, which is all the more reason to set aside your pride and back the capable people below you, letting them get on with it. Being willing to bow and help others succeed brings the greatest blessing.
- Love
- However much you have going for you, be willing to set aside your pride and truly meet the other person halfway, without using your standing to press on them. A union like this is blessed; if you have found the right person and want to settle things, now is a good time.
- Money
- You have the position and the capital, which is all the more reason to drop the airs and work with people of real ability, even letting them take the lead. Being willing to take the lower place to help others succeed blesses both sides; that is supreme good fortune.
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 Tai.
Line position
A yin line in a yang place: it is not in its proper place; it holds the center of its trigram. Its partner is the second line, which is its opposite, so the two answer each other.
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 inscribed sides, old yin), this line is your answer. The primary hexagram is Tai (Peace); when this line changes it becomes Xu (Waiting): hexagram 11 changing to 5.
Which text to read with several changing lines →
Resulting hexagram · Xu (Waiting)
The time has not come yet. Wait.