Possession in Great Measure in Community

You have much among your people — enjoy it consciously, and remember that abundance is administered by modesty. Keep gratitude ahead of entitlement, generosity ahead of accounting, and let the circle's warmth flow outward: a group this fortunate has friendship to spare for newcomers and outsiders. Practise line 5's balance — accessible and dignified together, open-hearted without letting the openness be presumed upon or trodden over. And resist the freezing instinct: trying to preserve the group exactly as it is, keeping it closed so nothing changes. A gathering gripped goes stale; warmth received and passed on keeps arriving. The light is for illumination, not display.

You may have more to give a community than this stretch of loneliness lets you feel — this hexagram often appears to remind someone their store of goodwill is large and undamaged. Carry it like the big wagon of line 2: sturdy, built to travel, ready for a real undertaking. Be discerning about what your generosity attracts, though; abundance of warmth draws genuine friends and consumers alike, and the tests are simple manners — who gives back, who only draws. Don't fall into rivalry with the well-connected (line 4); comparing your social life to someone else's poisons both. Come toward people as an offering rather than a bid for a place, and your fullness finds its match rather than its audience.