Hexagram 24, Fù (Return): Line 1
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初九：不远复，无祇悔，元吉。
The line (Legge)
The first NINE, undivided, shows its subject returning (from an error) of no great extent, which would not proceed to anything requiring repentance. There will be great good fortune.
Small Image commentary
'Returning (from an error) of no great extent' is the prelude to the cultivation of the person.
象曰：不远之复，以修身也。
In plain words
Returning before going far; no great regret: supreme good fortune. The first line is the only yang line of the hexagram: yang comes back, returning to the right way before straying far. The Great Commentary cites Yan Hui: whenever he did wrong he knew it, and once he knew it he never did it again. The Small Image calls this the way to cultivate oneself.
Applying it to your situation
If you have just noticed you have gone off course, this line suggests turning back early is best. What deviation could you correct right now?
Position
A solid (yang) line in the first place, which is a yang (odd) place, so it is in its proper place. Its partner is line 4; one is yin and the other yang, so they respond to each other.
If this line moves
With this line moving alone, Fù changes into Hexagram 2 Kūn (The Receptive). The Jiaoshi Yilin verse for this change (Chinese): 焦氏易林·复之坤.
A recorded case from Takashima
Fu to Kun: buying a carriage horse: Takashima wanted a carriage horse, and Kodama Shōsuke happened to have a Nanbu horse to sell. Casting on it, he got the first line of Fu, "returning from not far". He read it as a horse for short trips rather than long journeys, and from the changed hexagram Kun, "the steadfastness of a mare", inferred a gentle mare.
The hexagram
Hexagram 24 Fù (Return). The Judgment: Fu indicates that there will be free course and progress (in what it denotes). (The subject of it) finds no one to distress him in his exits and entrances; friends come to him, and no error is committed . He will return and repeat his (proper) course. In seven days comes his return. There will be advantage in whatever direction movement is made.
Next: Line 2
English text: James Legge, The Yi King (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 16, 1882), public domain, as transcribed by the Chinese Text Project. Chinese: the received text. Offered for study and reflection, not as prediction. Plain-English readings and position notes by this site.