Establish Foundation

A stone pillar. The riders wheel and turn. Trial: Advantageous for a residence. Advantageous to install lords as helpers. Stop and establish your deep foundations. Empower others to help you. You have a mandate to lay out a new city and receive the dwellers. Do not be violent or withholding. You would be attacking the protection that will bring things to maturity.

初九, 磐桓, 利居貞, 利建侯.

Hesitation and hindrance. It furthers one to remain persevering. It furthers one to appoint helpers. ##### Comments If a person encounters a hindrance at the beginning of an enterprise, he must not try to force advance but must pause and take thought. However, nothing should put him off his course; he must persevere and constantly keep the goal in sight. It is important to seek out the right assistants, but he can find them only if he avoids arrogance and associated with his fellows in a spirit of humility. Only then will he attract those with whose help he can combat the difficulties.