Generosity closes the hexagram. Legge's translation describes the advance of honesty and generosity, with good fortune and no error, and the Little Symbolism explains it by saying that the will of this line is set on the inner trigram. The topmost position, farthest from the two strong lines that began the movement, turns its attention back toward them, and it is that turning back rather than any further advance that the text rewards.
A yielding stroke correctly occupies this even place at the summit of the upper trigram Kun, the receptive earth carried to its fullest extent. Top lines frequently mark excess or exhaustion, and this one does not, because the quality being extended is magnanimity rather than force. There is nothing left above to approach, so the only direction generosity can travel is downward.
Read against the opening lines, the hexagram closes where it began. Two strong lines advanced from the foot in company, and the highest line of all answers them by inclining toward the interior instead of standing apart from it. Good fortune and freedom from error are both stated, an unqualified ending that few top lines receive, and the reason given is simply where this line has chosen to look.