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On January 8, 2019 at 6:55 AM  madmur88 asked:

Who am I to J?

and received a response of:
old yang
yin
old yin
yin
old yang
yang
 

41 Decrease

The Statement of the first hexagram

Decrease. Have confidence.

Great fortune. No fault

if one can be upright.

Gain by having a place to go.

How should one act?

Two square bamboo baskets

can be used in offering.

The changing lines

The second line:
Gain is in purity, misfortune is in going.

No decrease, but gain there.
The fourth line:
Decrease your hatred.

Act quickly and you will have joy.

No fault.
The sixth line:
No decrease, but gain there. No fault.

Pure fortune. Gain by having a place to go.

Get servants, but not a house.
yin
yin
yang
yin
yin
yang
 

51 Thunder

The Statement of the second hexagram

Thunder everywhere.
Thunder comes frighteningly.
People laugh and exclaim.
Thunder terrifies for one hundred miles,
but do not lose the ladle
of sacrificial wine.
 
 

The Image of the first hexagram

Lake below mountain:
decrease. The noble one
halts his anger
and curbs his desires.
 
 

The Image of the second hexagram

Continuous thunder
on thunder.
The noble one examines
his morals
in fear and dread.