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Good Fortune That Holds Only While the One Support Is Kept Single

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Good Fortune That Holds Only While the One Support Is Kept Single

Nine in the fourth place gives a querent a good outcome with a condition attached that is easy to mistake for small print. The beam curving upward promises that a heavy situation is now being carried properly. The warning that follows, that looking for other help brings regret, is the more actionable half. What is cautioned against is not caution itself but the instinct to shore up a working arrangement with extra props, which in this hexagram divides the load rather than sharing it.

The support in question is identifiable. This strong stroke, standing at the base of the upper trigram Dui, is answered by the yielding line at the very bottom of the figure, and that single correspondence is what turns a sagging ridgepole into a braced one. A querent drawing this line is usually being carried by one relationship, one commitment or one source of backing that is doing more work than it appears to be doing, and the temptation is to hedge it.

When the line changes, the upper trigram Dui becomes Kan and the figure becomes The Well, King Wen 48, a source that stays in one place and serves everyone who comes to it for as long as it is maintained. The movement suits the counsel exactly. What holds this position up is a fixed thing that has to be kept in repair rather than supplemented, and hedging it is how the water is lost.

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