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    On June 25, 2010 at  5:51 PM 
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    18 Poison
  
  
    
      
      The Statement of the first hexagram
    
    
      Poison brings the great continuing. 
Advance across the great river. 
Before starting: three days. 
After starting: three days.
    
   
  
    The changing lines
    
        
    The first line:
    Manage father's poison. 
Let his child examine. No fault 
amid such harshness. In the end, fortune.  
  
    The third line:
    Manage father's poison. 
The young have regrets. 
No great fault.  
  
    The fifth line:
    Manage father's poison. 
Make use of honor.  
     
   
 
    
  
  
 
  
   
  
    61 Confidence Within
  
  
    The Statement of the second hexagram
  
  
   Confidence within: 
Pigs. Fish. Fortune. 
Advance across the great river. 
Gainful purity.
  
   
 
     
    
        
    The Image of the first hexagram
  
  
    Wind below the mountain:
poison. The noble one 
stirs the people
and nourishes virtue.  
      
      
      
      
     
    
        
    The Image of the second hexagram
  
  
    Wind above the lake: 
inner truth. 
The noble one 
discusses the law 
and grants reprieve 
from execution.