Jie, nine in the fifth placeHexagram 60, line 5 · Jie (Limitation) · changing to 19
The line
In plain wordsYou take restraint as something sweet, measured and centered and correct. Good fortune. Go forward like this and you will be held in esteem.
The Image commentary on this line
甘節之吉，居位中也。
The good fortune of "sweet limitation": it dwells in its place at the center.
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
- Start the rules with yourself, keep them neither too tight nor too loose, and people will follow them willingly. Push forward with this sense of measure and people will respect you and look up to you.
- Love
- The measure you keep in love makes you both comfortable: not clingy and not cold, caring without controlling. Go forward like this and the other person will respect you all the more.
- Money
- Saving money feels sweet to you: you are neither stingy nor wasteful, and everything is just right. Bring this sense of measure into your work and your partnerships, and others will value you too.
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 Jie.
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 Jie (Limitation); when this line changes it becomes Lin (Approach): hexagram 60 changing to 19.
Which text to read with several changing lines →
Resulting hexagram · Lin (Approach)
Momentum is rising and you can push ahead actively, but remember it won't keep rising forever.