Chin / Progress
above: Li The Clinging, Flame
below: K'un The Receptive, Earth
The first [six], divided, shows one wishing to advance, and (at the same time) kept back. Let him be firm and correct and there will be good fortune. If trust be not reposed in him, let him maintain a large and generous mind and there will be no error.
Line 1 is weak, and in the lowest place, and its correlate in 4 is neither central nor in its correct position. This indicates the small and obstructed beginnings of his subject. But by his firm correctness he pursues the way to good fortune; and though the king does not yet believe in him, he the more pursues his noble course.