Hexagram 9 · Line 5
Small Taming — 五九
Xiao Chu · Wu Jiu
五九 · Wu Jiu
The Line
If you are truthful and faithfully bound, you are rich in your neighbor.
Interpretation
Faithfulness leads to firm bonding, because it rests on mutual completion. On the weaker side, faithfulness consists in devotion; on the stronger side, in reliability. This mutual completion leads to true riches, which show themselves as such precisely in that one does not keep them for oneself alone but shares them with one's neighbor. Shared joy is double joy.