Dui, nine at the beginningHexagram 58, line 1 · Dui (Joy) · changing to 47
The line
In plain wordsGetting along with people peacefully and making them glad, without leaning toward anyone or fawning on anyone. Good fortune.
The Image commentary on this line
和兌之吉，行未疑也。
The good fortune of "harmonious joy": its conduct is not yet in doubt.
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
- Be friendly with everyone, don't form cliques, and don't curry favor with anyone. Treat people this way and no one will doubt your motives; people trust you, and things naturally go smoothly.
- Love
- Be easygoing together, neither trying hard to please nor calculating, and being with you feels naturally comfortable. If you are single, there is no need to rush to revolve around anyone either; just get to know people at ease.
- Money
- In business and in your dealings with people, be friendly and fair: favor no one, flatter no one, and take advantage of no one. Dealings like this stay clean, and money matters go smoothly.
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 Dui.
Line position
A yang line in a yang place: it is in its proper place. Its partner is the fourth line, which is also yang, so there is no answer from it.
First place: the beginning of the matter. Low position, little power. Begin carefully.
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 Dui (Joy); when this line changes it becomes Kun (Exhaustion): hexagram 58 changing to 47.
Which text to read with several changing lines →
Resulting hexagram · Kun (Exhaustion)
You are trapped, and right now no one believes anything you say.