Uneasy Success

You find a place to abide, acquire goods and an emblem ax. “My heart is not glad”. You have found a place to abide with responsibility and power but deep in your heart you know a greater mission awaits. You see such extraordinary sights that you lose the capacity to respond. A fertilizing shock will revive your creative energy, releasing the energy now bound up in the past. Co-operate with the on-going process of change.

九四, 旅于處, 得其資斧, 我心不快.

The wanderer rests in a shelter. He obtains his property and an ax. My heart is not glad. ##### Comments This describes a wanderer who knows how to limit his desires outwardly, though he is inwardly strong and aspiring. Therefore he finds at least a place of shelter in which he can stay. He also succeeds in acquiring property, but even with this he is not secure. He must be always on guard, ready to defend himself with arms. Hence he is not at ease. He is persistently conscious of being a stranger in a strange land.