Zhongfu, nine in the fifth placeHexagram 61, line 5 · Zhongfu (Inner Truth) · changing to 41

The line

The Image commentary on this line

有孚攣如，位正當也。

"There is sincerity that binds fast": its place is correct and proper.

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. Neither good nor bad. Do your part, correct mistakes, and nothing will go wrong.

• 无咎 no blame: no fault attaches, often because a mistake is corrected in time

How to read good fortune, misfortune, regret, humiliation and no blame →

Asking about work, love or money

Work

You are in a key position, and what holds everyone together is your good faith: do what you say, stay consistent, and treat everyone alike. Do this and nothing will go wrong.

Love

What ties two people together is trust, not watching and testing. Keep your word and stay the same from start to finish, and your hearts will naturally stay close. Nothing goes wrong this way.

Money

Between you and your partners, good faith is what binds: pay on time what should be paid, open your books for others to see, and don't shave anything off the terms you agreed. Hold on to people's trust, and your money stays steady 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 Zhongfu.

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.

Proper place, center and correspondence explained →

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 Zhongfu (Inner Truth); when this line changes it becomes Sun (Decrease): hexagram 61 changing to 41.

Which text to read with several changing lines →