Sun / Decrease
above:K^ en Keeping Still, Mountain
below:Tui The Joyous, Lake
The topmost [nine], undivided, shows its subject giving increase to others without taking from himself. There will be no error. With firm correctness there will be good fortune. There will be advantage in every movement that shall be made. He will find ministers more than can be counted by their clans.
Line 6 has been changed from a weak into a strong line from line 3; has received therefore the greatest increase, and will carry out the idea of the hexagram in the highest degree and style. But he can give increase to others without diminishing his own resources, and of course the benefit he will confer will be incalculable. Ministers will come to serve him; and not from each clan merely, but many. Such is the substance of what is said on this last paragraph. I confess that I only discern the meaning darkly.