Quiet Restraint

Quiet Articulating, peaceful and secure. Make an offering and you will succeed. Articulate your ideas quietly and you will meet a warm response. Do not identify with your need to express yourself or your craving for personal power. Focus entirely on the needs of the work. There is an opening now, but everyone is striving for their own ends. Simply separate yourself from this and you will have cause to rejoice. Gather energy for a decisive new move.

六四, 安節, 亨.

Contented limitation. Success. ##### Comments Every limitation has its value, but a limitation that requires persistent effort entails a cost of too much energy. When, however, the limitation is a natural one (as for example, the limitation by which water flows only downhill), it necessarily leads to success, for then it means a saving of energy. The energy that otherwise would be consumed in a vain struggle with the object, is applied wholly to the benefit of the matter in hand, and success is assured.