Kuai / Break-through (Resoluteness)
above:Tui The Joyous, Lake
below:Ch'ien The Creative, Heaven
The first [nine], undivided, shows its subject in (the pride of) strength advancing with his toes. He goes forward but will not succeed. There will be ground for blame.
Line 1 is strong, the first line of that trigram, which expresses the idea of strength. But it is in the lowest place. The stage of the enterprise is too early, and the preparation too small to make victory certain. Its subject had better not take the field.