Remain Receptive

Persevering in power and virtue. Fix the omen. Trial: Wise Words! The Way opens through the Wife. The Way closes through the Husband. Persevere in real virtue. This is a favorable situation if you act through the receptive. Do not be swept off your feet. If you insist on dominance you will be cut off and fall into a trap. A hasty move now will lead to nothing but trouble. Stay right where you are and you will soon have all you want. You are surrounded by omens of rebirth and beauty. You are connected to a creative force.

六五, 恒其德, 貞, 婦人吉, 夫子凶.

Giving duration to one's character through perseverance. ##### Comments This is good fortune for a woman, misfortune for a man. A woman should follow a man her whole life long, but a man should at all times hold to what is his duty at the given moment. Should he persistently seek to conform to the woman, it would be a mistake for him. Accordingly it is altogether right for a woman to hold conservatively to tradition, but a man must always be flexible and adaptable and allow himself to be guided solely by what his duty requires of him at the moment.