Hold Fast

Held in the yellow bull’s skin. Absolutely nothing can succeed in loosening this. This is an inner retreat through which you see into things. Do not let go of what you see. It is your purpose and truly belongs with you. Your ideas have borne fruit and the womb is full. Stay quiet for now. If you can change your considerable strength into imagination you will soon regain what you feel you have lost. You are coupled with a creative force.

六二, 執之用黃牛之革, 莫之勝說.

he holds him fast with yellow oxhide. ##### Comments No one can tear him loose. Yellow is the color of the middle. It indicates that which is correct and in line with duty. Oxhide is strong and not to be torn. While the superior men retreat and the inferior press after them, the inferior man represented here holds on so firmly and tightly to the superior man that the latter cannot shake him off. And because he is in quest of what is right an so strong in purpose, he reaches his goal. Thus the line confirms what is said in the Judgment: "In what is small" --here equivalent to "in the inferior man" -- "perseverance furthers."