I Ching 易經
The 64 Hexagrams / 9
Hexagram 9 · ䷈

Small Taming

小畜 · Xiǎo Xù
Upper Wind 巽Lower Heaven 乾

The Judgment · 卦辭

亨。密雲不雨,自我西郊。
Hsiâo Khû indicates that (under its conditions) there will be progress and success. (We see) dense clouds, but no rain coming from our borders in the west.

The Image · 大象

風行天上,小畜,君子以懿文德。
(The trigram representing) the sky, and that representing wind moving above it, form Hsiâo Khû The superior man, in accordance with this, adorns the outward manifestation of his virtue.
Plain-English Meaning

Small restraints. Progress is gentle and gradual; refine the details while the larger change gathers.

The Judgment

Dense clouds, no rain yet: small steps succeed, but the full result has not arrived.

The Image

Like wind moving across the sky, refine your outward manner and character.
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The Lines · 爻辭
English: James Legge (1882), public domain · Text · Image (Appendix II), sacred-texts.com.
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