Hexagram 9
Small Taming
Wind over Heaven
The judgment
亨。密云不雨，自我西郊One yielding line sits among five strong ones. Small restraints hold the movement together; clouds gather and no rain has fallen.
The image
Wind runs across the sky and the clouds thicken without breaking. Restraint, applied in small amounts, is what holds the shape.
The six lines
Read from the bottom up. A line that moves is read here, and read again in the hexagram it becomes.
- 初九Line 1
复自道，何其咎，吉
At the start, step back onto the path already known; footing stays sure and the retreat costs little.
Marked in the textauspicious
- 九二Line 2
牵复，吉
Led back by another hand, walking in company; the middle position means the direction need not be set alone.
Marked in the textauspicious
- 九三Line 3
车说輹，夫妻反目
The wooden pad under the axle has slipped off, the wheels spin free and go nowhere. Under one roof, the two turn their faces away, unwilling even to look at each other, resentment splitting one table in two.
- 六四Line 4
有孚，血去惕出，无咎
Something solid is held within; the danger of blood has passed, and the fear has walked out the door. What was jammed in the chest loosens, and a person can stand firm.
Marked in the textno blame
- 九五Line 5
有孚挛如，富以其邻
Holding on without letting go, lifting those beside you along; the weight in hand steadies the whole situation.
- 上九Line 6
既雨既处，尚得载，妇贞厉，月几望，君子征凶
The rain has fallen and stopped, the load still carries. The woman keeps to her place, yet the tight binding stays taut; the moon is nearly full, fullness at its edge. Pressing further on now, the footing loses all measure.
Marked in the textdangerominous
Where each changing line leads
Flip one line and it is a different hexagram. These are the six it becomes.
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The classical text is the Zhouyi, public domain, checked against a Wikisource transcript. The readings are ours. Daily hexagram