Dui, nine in the fourth placeHexagram 58, line 4 · Dui (Joy) · changing to 60
The line
In plain wordsYou weigh two kinds of pleasure back and forth and your heart cannot settle. If you can cleanly hold to the right one and turn away from the wrong one, there will be happiness.
The Image commentary on this line
九四之喜，有慶也。
The happiness of nine in the fourth place: there is cause for celebration.
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
- Two options both attract you, one proper, the other a clever shortcut, and you weigh them back and forth without settling. Choose the proper one decisively and stop thinking about the other; good things lie ahead.
- Love
- Your heart is pulled two ways: one side is steady, the other only a passing thrill, and you cannot decide. See clearly which is right, hold to it firmly, and cut the other off cleanly. Once your heart is settled, happiness can come.
- Money
- One sum of money comes by an honest route; another comes fast but is not clean, and you hesitate between them. Stop weighing: hold to the honest one and turn down the unclean one outright. That is how real happiness comes.
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 yin place: it is not in its proper place. Its partner is the first line, which is also yang, so there is no answer from it.
Fourth place: next to the ruler, a place of caution. Serve those above with care.
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 Jie (Limitation): hexagram 58 changing to 60.
Which text to read with several changing lines →
Resulting hexagram · Jie (Limitation)
Have restraint, but do not be so harsh that even you cannot bear it.