I Ching Path

Hexagram 41 · Line 6

Decrease上九

Sun · Shang Jiu

上九 · Shang Jiu

The Line

If one is increased without decreasing others, this is no blame. Perseverance brings good fortune. It is favorable to undertake something. One gets servants, but no longer has a particular home.

Interpretation

There are people who bestow blessing on the whole world. Every increase of strength, every increase granted to them comes to the benefit of all people and therefore means no decrease for others. Through perseverant and eager work one has success and finds helpers as one needs them. But what one effects is not a privately limited advantage, but is open and accessible to everyone.

Hexagram 41 Line 6: 上九 — Decrease I Ching Line Meaning | I Ching Path