Jian, six in the second placeHexagram 39, line 2 · Jian (Obstruction) · changing to 48
The line
In plain wordsFor the sake of the one above you, you run back and forth through the hardship, trip after trip, not for yourself. Do not ask whether it will succeed; just give it all your heart and all your strength.
The Image commentary on this line
王臣蹇蹇，終无尤也。
"The king's servant meets obstruction upon obstruction": in the end there is no fault.
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
平Neutral. The text gives no verdict, only an image. Ask what in your situation the image resembles. The answer is there.
How to read good fortune, misfortune, regret, humiliation and no blame →
Asking about work, love or money
- Work
- You keep running back and forth on the hard tasks handed down from above, worn out, and not for your own sake. Don't ask yet whether it will succeed. Give it everything you have, and no one can blame you.
- Love
- You have worried a great deal and been through a lot for the other person's troubles or your family's. Don't keep score of who owes whom. Giving sincerely leaves your conscience clear, and you will not go wrong this way.
- Money
- To get your family or team through a hard patch, you scrape funds together and run yourself ragged, without taking a cent more for yourself. Don't weigh gain and loss; do all you ought to do, and there is no blame.
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 Jian.
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 Jian (Obstruction); when this line changes it becomes Jing (The Well): hexagram 39 changing to 48.
Which text to read with several changing lines →
Resulting hexagram · Jing (The Well)
The fundamental thing has not changed. The question is whether you are using it well, and using it all the way.