Delayed Success

Wild geese settle on the grave mounds. The wife is not pregnant for three years. Complete this and absolutely nothing can stop you. The Way is open. Restrain and reflect on your words. Take an independent perspective. Do not pursue what you feel is lost. It will return of itself when this is complete. These goings and comings release the energy now bound up in the past. Co-operate with the on-going process of change.

九五, 鴻漸于陵, 婦三歲不孕, 終莫之勝, 吉.

The wild goose gradually draws near the summit. For three years the woman has no child. In the end nothing can hinder her. Good fortune. ##### Comments The summit is a high place. In a high position one easily becomes isolated. One is misjudged by the very person on whom one is dependent-the woman by her husband, the official by his superior. This is the work of deceitful persons who have wormed their way in. The result is that relationships remain sterile, and nothing is accomplished. But in the course of further development, such misunderstandings are cleared away, and reconciliation is achieved after all.