Wu Wang / Innocence (The Unexpected)

above:Ch'ien The Creative, Heaven
below:Ch^ en The Arousing, Thunder

The fifth [nine], undivided, shows one who is free from insincerity, and yet has fallen ill. Let him not use medicine, and he will have occasion for joy (in his recovery).

Line 5 is strong, in the central place of honor, and has its proper correlate in 2. Hence its subject must possess the quality of the hexagram in perfection. And yet he shall be sick or in distress. But he need not be anxious. Without his efforts a way of escape for him will be opened.