8. Holding Together (Pi)
Like water gathering on earth. Suggests unity, cooperation, and maintaining beneficial relationships.
Changing Lines
- Line 1: Hold to him in truth and loyalty; this is without blame. Truth, like a full earthen bowl: thus in the end good fortune comes from without.
- Line 2: Hold to him inwardly. Perseverance brings good fortune.
- Line 3: You hold together with the wrong people.
- Line 4: Hold to him outwardly also. Perseverance brings good fortune.
- Line 5: Manifestation of holding together. In the hunt the king uses beaters on three sides only and foregoes game that runs off in front.
- Line 6: He finds no head for holding together. Misfortune.