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.