Six in the fifth place tells a querent that the sorrow they are in is doing the work. The text is unusually direct: floods of tears, sorrowful lamentation, and then good fortune, with the commentary locating the reason in the dignity of the position rather than in any relief of the circumstances. Nothing here promises that the cause of the grief will be removed. It promises that grieving properly is the correct conduct in this place and that the outcome follows from it.
That is a hard reading to accept for anyone hoping to be told the trouble is over, and it is among the most useful in the classic for exactly that reason. A person of standing who suppresses what a situation actually costs is exercising the fourth line's kind of brightness, all flare and no attachment. The fifth line's clarity is the sort that admits the loss, and the hexagram's whole teaching is that light with nothing real to cling to does not last.
When the line changes, the upper trigram Li becomes Qian and the figure becomes Fellowship, King Wen 13, people in the open acting in common. The movement gives the counsel its practical shape. Grief acknowledged at the top of a situation is what allows others to gather rather than to scatter, and a ruler who has wept in front of the matter is the one the rest can keep company with.