Small Taming

Small restraints. Progress is gentle and gradual; refine the details while the larger change gathers.

• 初九 · Line 1
  復自道，何其咎，吉。
  The first NINE, undivided, shows its subject returning and pursuing his own course. What mistake should he fall into? There will be good fortune.
  象曰：復自道，其義吉也。
• 九二 · Line 2
  牽復，吉。
  The second NINE, undivided, shows its subject, by the attraction (of the former line), returning (to the proper course). There will be good fortune.
  象曰：牽復在中，亦不自失也。
• 九三 · Line 3
  車說輹，夫妻反目。
  The third NINE, undivided, suggests the idea of a carriage, the strap beneath which has been removed, or of a husband and wife looking on each other with averted eyes.
  象曰：夫妻反目，不能正室也。
• 六四 · Line 4
  有孚，血去惕出，无咎。
  The fourth SIX, divided, shows its subject possessed of sincerity. The danger of bloodshed is thereby averted, and his (ground for) apprehension dismissed. There will be no mistake.
  象曰：有孚。惕出。上合志也。
• 九五 · Line 5
  有孚攣如，富以其鄰。
  The fifth NINE, undivided, shows its subject possessed of sincerity, and drawing others to unite with him. Rich in resources, he employs his neighbours (in the same cause with himself).
  象曰：有孚攣如，不獨富也。
• 上九 · Line 6
  既雨既處，尚得載，婦貞厲，月幾望，君子征凶。
  The topmost NINE, undivided, shows how the rain has fallen, and the (onward progress) is stayed;--(so) must we value the full accumulation of the virtue (represented by the upper trigram). But a wife (exercising restraint), however firm and correct she may be, is in a position of peril, (and like) the moon approaching to the full. If the superior man prosecute his measures (in such circumstances), there will be evil.
  象曰：既雨既處，德積載也。君子征凶，有所疑也。