Extend Joy

Prolong the Opening. Draw out the words. Extend the joy and pleasure. Extend the opening and possibility for connection. This could be a lasting source of joy and pleasure. Do not be timid. If you look at what you are doing you now will see that it connects with something larger than personal desires. Step out to meet the new spirit. You will soon find supportive friends. Gather energy for a decisive new move.

上六, 引兌.

Seductive joyousness. ##### Comments A vain nature invites diverting pleasures and must suffer accordingly (cf. the six in the third place). If a man is unstable within, the pleasures of the world that he does not shun have so powerful an influence that he is swept along by them. Here it is no longer a question of danger, of good fortune or misfortune. He has given up direction of his own life, and what becomes of him depends upon chance and external influences.