As a changing line, the opening six of Holding Together tells a querent that whatever alliance, partnership or approach the reading concerns should be made on the strength of sincerity alone, before any advantage has been established and before any leverage exists. The image of a plain vessel full to the brim carries the specific counsel: what is offered has to be genuinely complete rather than impressive, since at this earliest point there is nothing else to offer. The line promises not just the absence of blame but a further good fortune the querent did not set out to obtain.
Flipping this yielding line to firm turns the lower trigram Kun into Zhen, thunder, and the resulting figure of water over thunder is Difficulty at the Beginning, King Wen 3. The move is instructive rather than discouraging. A union approached with a full heart but with sudden assertion at its base becomes a sprouting under obstruction, full of energy and short of clear direction. The good faith is not lost, but it now has to force its way through resistance instead of flowing toward what would have received it.
A reading landing here is favorable and asks for patience with the pace. The querent is advised to make the honest approach and then let it be answered in its own time, rather than pressing the first movement into something more forceful than the situation can yet carry.