Chieh / Limitation
above: K'an The Abysmal, Water
below: Tui The Joyous, Lake
The fifth [nine], undivided, shows its subject sweetly and acceptably enacting his regulations. There will be good fortune. The onward progress with them will afford ground for admiration.
Line 5 is strong, and in its correct place. Its subject regulates himself, having no correlate; but he is lord of the hexagram, and his influence is everywhere beneficially felt.