Hexagram 9
Savings, brewing, small obstacles
The Xiao Xu hexagram teaches us that many times of stagnation in life is not a bad thing. It is a precious time that forces us to slow down, look inward, and gather strength. Only if you can endure loneliness can you maintain prosperity.
Trigram Structure
䷈, Xun above, Qian below
Palace：巽
Key Themes
Savings, brewing, small obstacles
The Xiao Xu hexagram teaches us that many times of stagnation in life is not a bad thing. It is a precious time that forces us to slow down, look inward, and gather strength. Only if you can endure loneliness can you maintain prosperity.
Xiao Xu: Heng. Dense clouds but no rain, I am in the western suburbs.
Dense clouds, headwinds, a dam storing water.
Piggy bank, reservoir, traffic bottleneck, combination lock.
The Xiao Xu hexagram teaches us that many times of stagnation in life is not a bad thing. It is a precious time that forces us to slow down, look inward, and gather strength. Only if you can endure loneliness can you maintain prosperity.
What's the blame for regaining one's own way? lucky.
Guidance
Return to the right path, maintain your position—how can there be fault? Auspicious.
Modern Insight
When your career has just started and you encounter a small obstacle, it's easy to take shortcuts or go astray. This line reminds you that you must immediately correct yourself and return to the right path. Not forgetting your original intention is the first step in accumulating strength.
Qianfu, Ji.
Guidance
Adapt to the times; passive pause is also a form of progress, auspicious.
Modern Insight
You want to rush forward, but your partners or environment hold you back. At this time, adapting to the team's rhythm and staying together with everyone is a passive form of accumulation. Do not go it alone; maintaining consistency with the group is the wisdom of this moment.
Public opinion spreads, and husband and wife turn against each other.
Guidance
The wheel's spokes fall off, the cart falls apart. Husband and wife quarrel and turn against each other.
Modern Insight
This indicates serious internal problems. Because of small obstacles and pressure, the team has produced intense conflicts and discord. Everyone's goals are inconsistent, they blame each other, and all strength is consumed internally. This is a warning that internal conflicts must be resolved first.
If there is Fu, the blood will come out and there will be no blame.
Guidance
With sincerity in heart, stay away from worry and fear; you can avoid harm, and there will be no disaster.
Modern Insight
This is the only yin line in the entire hexagram, representing that "gentle restraining force." If you are a manager, facing subordinates' impatience, you cannot rely solely on strong pressure. You must communicate with sincerity to resolve their doubts and fears. Gentleness can overcome strength; resolving crises with sincerity is the key to this line.
If there is a rich man like him, he will be rich next to him.
Guidance
Share results with neighbors; trust each other and accumulate strength together.
Modern Insight
This is the wisest leader. In the accumulation stage, he does not monopolize results, but knows how to share benefits with partners. This attitude of "sharing fortune together" can establish the most stable trust relationships, tightly binding everyone's strength together to overcome difficulties.
Wherever it rains, there is virtue. Women are chaste and fierce. When you look at the moon, a gentleman will be in danger.
Guidance
The time is ripe, return fully loaded, but beware of overconfidence.
Modern Insight
The goal is achieved, accumulation is complete. But this is also the time when problems are most likely to occur. Success brings pride and makes people slack. This line sternly warns us that after success, we must know how to restrain and maintain, and not become complacent. If we continue to be combative and impulsive as before, fortune will turn to misfortune.
