Chun / Difficulty at the Beginning
above: K'an The Abysmal, Water
below: Ch^ en The Arousing, Thunder
The fifth [nine], undivided, shows the difficulties in the way of (its subject's dispensing the rich favors that might be expected from him. With firmness and correctness there will be good fortune in small things; (even) with them them in great things there will be evil.
The subject of the fifth line is in the place of authority, and should show himself a ruler, dispensing benefits on a great scale. But he is in the very center of the trigram denoting perilousness, and line 2, which responds to 5, is weak. Hence arises the symbolism, and great things should not be attempted.