Ch'ien / The Creative

above: Ch'ien The Creative, Heaven
below: Ch'ien The Creative, Heaven

(The lines of the hexagram are all strong and undivided, as appears from) The use of the number nine. If the host of dragons appearing were to divest themselves of their heads, there would be good fortune.

The meaning given to the supernumerary paragraph is the opposite of that of paragraph 6. The 'host of dragons without their heads' would give us the next hexagram, or Khwan, made up of six divided lines. Force would have given place to submission, and haughtiness to humility; and the result would be good fortune. Such at least is the interpretation of the paragraph given in a narrative of the Cho-Kwan under B.C. 513. For further explanation of the Duke of Kau's meaning, see Appendixes II and IV.