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Overbearing Dragon, heading into the gully. There is cause for sorrow. If you keep pushing on now you will misuse the creative energy. It is time to withdraw. There is a ripe fruit uneaten and you must carry it away. Have no doubts. It is time to be resolute and part from the past. Do not just change your face. Follow this and have no doubts. This inner stripping away leads to a breakthrough. You are connected to a creative force.

上九, 亢龍有悔.

Arrogant dragon will have cause to repent. ##### Comments When a man seeks to climb so high that he loses touch with the rest of mankind, he becomes isolated, and this necessarily leads to failure. This line warns against titanic aspirations that exceed one's power. A precipitous fall would follow. When all the lines are nines, it means: There appears a flight of dragons without heads. Good fortune.